Mr. Bibhusal Thapa is a Thoracic Surgeon and currently heads the Thoracic Surgery Unit at Northern Health. Dr Thapa completed his undergraduate studies in Medicine through Kathmandu University in Nepal. Subsequently, he has trained in General Surgery and then Thoracic Surgery, completing training in 2015. Dr Thapa was awarded the Rowan Nicks Scholarship through the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and completed a year of fellowship training in the Austin Hospital, Melbourne. He has also completed a PhD with the University of Melbourne studying the genomic aberrations in Mesothelioma.

Bibhusal has been working in the Thoracic Surgery Unit at Northern Health since 2020 and has been heading the unit since August 2022. He is also employed at The Austin Thoracic Surgery unit as a Locum surgeon. 

Dr Thapa has a keen interest in the evaluation and management of malignancies that effect the chest especially lung cancer, mesothelioma and mediastinal tumours. His operative expertise is in the minimal access surgery for chest (Key hole surgery or VATS). He has gathered extensive experience in interventional bronchoscopy and airway surgery. He has also trained in Robotic Thoracic Surgery which has the potential to make operations in the chest less invasive and easier to recover from.

Dr Thapa maintains deep interest in research and is widely published having contributed more than 40 articles and book chapters. He is an active member of the International Society for study of lung cancer, Thoracic Oncology Group of Australia and the Australia New Zealand Cardio-Thoracic Society. 

As a consultant Thoracic surgeon, Dr Thapa remains active in Thoracic Surgery in both public and private practice. He has admitting rights in Warringal Private Hospital, John Fawkner Hospital and Melbourne Private Hospital.