Rowan Gillies

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. ↑ "Dr Rowan Gillies". Dr Rowan Gillies. Retrieved 2016-12-05. 
2. ↑ http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=E52B51E1-5056-AA77-6C35C87E4DD20560&component=toolkit.article&method=full_html
3. ↑ "Sydney doctor's major operation - National". smh.com.au. 2003-11-02. Retrieved 2016-12-05. 
4. ↑ "Fearful frontier - Science". www.theage.com.au. 2004-08-05. Retrieved 2016-12-05. 
5. ↑ http://bulletin.syd.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=177687&print=true
6. ↑ "The 50 Australians who matter - National". www.theage.com.au. 2005-01-22. Retrieved 2016-12-05. 
7. ↑ uqms.org
8. ↑ "Lancet Commission on Global Surgery". Globalsurgery.info. Retrieved 2016-12-05.