The Team

Almost 25 years later I graduated as a Plastic Surgeon and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS). I had attended Monash University and attained a Bachelor of Science (BSc), majoring in physiology and pharmacology, then achieved my basic medical degree, a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS).

I commenced my medical career at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, receiving a broad base of early surgical training in general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology and vascular surgery. However, plastic surgery was my passion and I trained for 2 years at the Victorian Plastic Surgical Unit at the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital learning from some of Australia’s finest plastic surgeons performing both reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. The following two years was spent performing microsurgery on rats as part of a research project, for which I was awarded a Masters of Surgery (MS). During this 2-year period, I was a surgical assistant for three of Melbourne’s leading plastic surgeons, watching them and learning the nuances of cosmetic surgery. My final two years of training was spent in the UK, working at St Thomas’s hospital (with Big Ben visible from the operating theatre) and then at the Mount Vernon hospital, just outside of London. During this time, I was entrusted with more surgical responsibility and was able to perform both reconstructive and cosmetic surgery without supervision.

Returning to Australia in 1991, I commenced plastic surgical practice in the south-east of Melbourne. Initially this included the management of trauma and reconstructive work, however as the practice grew I became more focussed on the management of skin cancer and cosmetic surgery. After 16 years in private practice I moved to Singapore to work with a consulting, training and coaching company primarily focussed on developing leaders. During this time I developed my communication skills and in particular I learned to listen to people so I could genuinely understand what they wanted.

I returned to plastic surgery practice in 2013 a much wiser and compassionate human being with a renewed passion. I love what I do, consulting and operating in Melbourne, Sydney, Cairns and Rockhampton. I love to make a difference in people’s lives and to be trusted to perform surgical procedures for them is one of the greatest privileges I can imagine.