Rowan Gillies

Rowan Gillies
Nationality Australian

Rowan Gillies is a Plastic Surgeon from Sydney, Australia and is a VMO Plastic Surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital. He has a specific interest in skin cancer, reconstruction and breast reconstruction as well as the management of severe burns and trauma.[1] He is the youngest ever International Council President of the Nobel Prize–winning Médecins Sans Frontières.[2]

Educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduating with honours from the University of New South Wales, Dr Gillies is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon. [3] In January 2002 he became Australia's MSF leader and was thereafter elected as international leader that year.[4] He has worked on the field for MSF in some of the world's most troubled regions, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Liberia, Beirut, Congo and Sri Lanka.[5]

He was listed by The Age as one of "The 50 Australians Who Matter" in 2005.[6]

Dr Rowan Gillies delivered the prestigious 52nd annual Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture in 2009 in Brisbane, Australia.[7]

He is currently part of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, the findings of which were published in early May 2015.[8]

  1. ↑ http://www.drrowangillies.com
  2. ↑ http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=E52B51E1-5056-AA77-6C35C87E4DD20560&component=toolkit.article&method=full_html
  3. ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/01/1067597203231.html?from=storyrhs
  4. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/04/1091557900430.html?from=storylhs
  5. ↑ http://bulletin.syd.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=177687&print=true
  6. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/20/1106110882796.html
  7. ↑ uqms.org
  8. ↑ http://www.globalsurgery.info


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