In 2002 and 2003, Andrew completed further subspecialty training in both aesthetic and craniofacial surgery in Paris, France. This training included undertaking research into the use of fibrin glue in facelift surgery and long-term outcomes in craniofacial surgery. Time in Europe was also spent focusing on complex ear reconstruction and as a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, England.

During 2003, Andrew began another fellowship in rhinoplasty and cleft lip and palate surgery in Nantes, France. This was followed by a one year cleft/craniofacial fellowship in Melbourne at the Royal Children’s Hospital which included further intensive training in cleft and craniofacial surgery as well as rhinoplasty, ear reconstruction and aesthetic surgery. From 2004 to 2015 Andrew worked as a consultant at the Royal Childrens’ Hospital Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery and was Chief of Cleft and Craniofacial Surgery from 2009 to 2015.

A major highlight of Andrew’s plastic surgical career was co-leading the plastic surgical team ( combined with the neurosurgery team ) who made world headlines successfully separating conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna in 2009, marking a world-first achievement.

Andrew has published on a broad range of topics covering aesthetic facial surgery and paediatric plastic surgery in peer reviewed journals/books and has been a keynote speaker at many congresses globally. He is a member of the French Society of Plastic Surgery, the Australasian Society of Plastic Surgery, the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the American Society of Plastic Surgery.

Andrew is an also an accomplished fine artist in his own right having been a finalist in the Archibald Portrait Prize multiple times and twice winner of the People’s Choice Award in the Archibald Portrait Prize. In 2021 he won Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize, the Moran Prize for Portraiture. He is sought-after across Australia for portrait commissions and in 2019 his portrait of then President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Mr John Batten achieved museum status.

Registration Number:
MED0001206635

Specialty:
Surgery

Specialty Field:
Plastic Surgery