Meet the Doctors
Graeme Southwick
OAM MB BS FRACS FACS
Assoc Prof Graeme Southwick graduated in medicine with honors from Monash University in 1970. He then pursued post-graduate studies at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, where he was awarded the Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor Prize by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1973 for the highest marks in the first part examinations at the college.…
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Morris Ritz
MB B.Ch FCS FRACS
Mr Morris Ritz graduated from Witwatersrand University in South Africa in 1982 with a degree in medicine and the Sonya Walker Prize in physiology. He went on to pursue post-graduate studies in plastic and reconstructive surgery, gaining a fellowship with honor from The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa in 1990. Mr. Ritz then spent…
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Andrew Greensmith
M.B.CH.B, FRACS
Mr Andrew Greensmith graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1993 with a degree in medicine and completed postgraduate training in surgery in Christchurch and Auckland, qualifying in plastic and reconstructive surgery FRACS in 2001. As a senior medical student, Andrew spent a four-month elective period in plastic surgery with Professors Fernando Ortiz…
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Damon Thomas
M.B.CH.B, FRACS
Mr. Damon Thomas graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1996. As a newly graduated doctor Damon developed a passion for the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery, in particular the areas of paediatric hand, adult hand, microvascular and breast surgery. His plastic surgical training was spent in Auckland and Christchurch where these…
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Edmund Ek
MBBS (Hons) DipSurgAnat FRACS (Plas)
Mr Edmund Ek graduated from Monash University in 2003. After receiving numerous undergraduate prizes he completed medical school with first class honours, graduating as the top student in the class of 2003. Having decided at an early stage to pursue a career in plastic and reconstructive surgery, Edmund worked at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne where…
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Rodrigo Teixeira
MBBS, FRACS
Mr Teixeira is board certified Plastic Surgeon in Australia and Brazil. After finishing training overseas, he undertook fellowship training in Australia. Rodrigo trained at The Alfred Hospital and at The Royal Children’s Hospital of Melbourne where he still practices and mostly dedicates to Craniofacial and Cleft Surgery. Rodrigo is Head of the Plastic & Hand…
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Alenka Paddle
MBBS (Hons), PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS (Plast)
Dr. Alenka Paddle is a Specialist Plastic Surgeon and was awarded her Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in the Specialty of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (FRACS) in 2015. Alenka graduated with first class honours from Monash University, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 2005, and completed a Post-graduate Diploma in…
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