Synopsis

Tony Penington has recently been appointed as the inaugural incumbent of the Jigsaw Chair in Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Melbourne, the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.  As well as having the longest title of any professorship in the university, this is a unique position that has been created with the aim of creating an academic department around the Plastic surgery unit at RCH.  Tony will present his vision of how an excellent clinical unit can grow into an academic department that can benefit children with congenital deformities through clinical research, basic science and teaching and bring science to the practice of surgery at RCH.   

Speaker: Tony Penington graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1985 and attained his fellowship in Plastic Surgery from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1996.  Following 18 months in Oxford as a clinical and research fellow he was appointed consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at St. Vincent’s Hospital and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne..  He was awarded a Graduate Certificate in Health Statistics from Swinburne University of Technology in 2003 and MD from the University of Melbourne in 2008. From 1999 to 2012 he was Deputy Director of the O’Brien Institute and from 2009 to 2012 head of Plastic Surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital.  In June 2012 he was appointed Professor of Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the University of Melbourne.   His main clinical and research interests are in the treatment of vascular anomalies.