{"id":676,"date":"2013-03-27T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=676"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T01:23:37","slug":"surgical-research-in-plastic-surgery-putting-the-jigsaw-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2013\/03\/27\/surgical-research-in-plastic-surgery-putting-the-jigsaw-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgical Research in Plastic Surgery &#8211; Putting the Jigsaw together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/62842708\" width=\"570\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 27.03.13\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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\u2019s Hospital and the Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute. \u00a0As 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. \u00a0Tony 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.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Speaker: <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Tony Penington<\/b> 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. \u00a0Following 18 months in Oxford as a clinical and research fellow he was appointed consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at St. Vincent\u2019s Hospital and the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital, Melbourne.. \u00a0He 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\u2019Brien Institute and from 2009 to 2012 head of Plastic Surgery at St. Vincent\u2019s Hospital. \u00a0In June 2012 he was appointed Professor of Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital and the University of Melbourne. \u00a0\u00a0His main clinical and research interests are in the treatment of vascular anomalies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7944,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plastic-surgery","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}