Associate Professor Bronte Holt is a gastroenterologist and endoscopist at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. She specialises in the endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal and pancreaticobiliary systems.

Bronte’s endoscopic skills include diagnostic and interventional endoscopic ultrasonography, pancreatic and biliary ERCP and endoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease. She performs advanced resection procedures, including per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD).

Bronte commenced an endoscopy fellowship at Westmead Hospital in 2011, during which she obtained a PhD through the University of Sydney. She went on to join the Center for Interventional Endoscopy in Florida, USA, as endoscopy fellow from 2013 to 2014, supported by the Prime Minister’s Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship, an Australia Day award. Bronte was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship in 2015, and Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne in 2022. She is involved in clinical trials, supervision of PhD candidates and endoscopy training.