Australian
Faculty Speakers
Benjamin Burt
Dr Benjamin Burt is a Specialist Oculoplastic Surgeon. Dr Burt (FRANZCO FACS) has extensive surgical experience in the US, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
An Ophthalmologist for over 10 years, Dr Benjamin Burt specialises in Oculoplastic Surgery of the orbit, eyelids, periorbital, face, and the reconstruction of the eye and associated structures.
Dr. Burt has completed a dual fellowship at the University of California (Los Angeles) (UCLA) under the renowned Dr Robert Goldberg and an Oculopastic fellowship in Auckland, New Zealand. He has an impressive record of international presentations and publications and is currently an editor/reviewer of several prestigious Ophthalmology journals.
Simon Taylor
Dr Simon Taylor is an Ophthalmologist with a subspecialty practice in Oculoplastic, Orbital and Lacrimal Surgery. Dr Taylor graduated in Medicine with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney in 1989. Specialist Ophthalmology training was undertaken at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, and then as the Senior Professorial Registrar at the Sydney Eye Hospital. His subspecialty training in Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, Orbital and Lacrimal Surgery was then undertaken in Australia, USA and the UK. He was the Honorary Oculoplastic Fellow at the Sydney Eye Hospital in 1999.
Fellowship training in Oculoplastic Surgery was then undertaken at the University of Michigan, the University of Utah and Royal Manchester Eye Hospital, Manchester, UK.
Dr Taylor is an Honorary Associate at the Sydney Eye Hospital, a consultant at the Skin & Cancer Foundation and a VMO at Westmead Hospital. He holds the position of Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney and the Sydney Adventist Hospital Clinical School.
Peter Callan
Peter Callan has been a Plastic Surgeon for almost 25 years practising in Geelong, Victoria. His main interests are rhinoplasty, facial and eyelid surgery, and breast surgery. Peter is committed to the exchange of ideas between Plastic Surgeons and other specialties particularly in the fields of rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery and facial surgery.
George Marcells
Dr Marcells is an ENT, Facial Plastic Surgeon based in Edgecliff in Sydney. He is the President of the AAFPS (Australasian Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery). He is Co-Director of the Sydney Rhinology Fellowship which accepts Fellows for advanced rhinology training through the American Match program.
Dr Marcells is actively involved in Rhinology research and is Supervising an Honours Student Project on the External Nasal Valve.
Rodger Davies
Dr Rodger Davies was born and educated in Melbourne. He graduated from the University of Melbourne. His ophthalmic training was at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. He completed a fellowship in Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery at the Mt Sinai Medical Centre, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Rodger is consultant to the Orbito-plastic and Lacrimal Unit at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. Rodger is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists and the Australian & New Zealand Society of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgeons.
Angelo Tsirbas
Graduating at the top of his medical school with honours, Dr. Tsirbas trained in general surgery before completing ophthalmic training at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. He was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, and undertook further training at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, as well as the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 2005, he was appointed to the faculty of the Orbital and Oculofacial Surgical Department at the Jules Stein Eye Institute in Los Angeles.
Dr. Angelo Tsirbas has written and published an extensive list of medical literature including over 50 research papers and book chapters, and he is a regular invited speaker at medical conferences around the world. Dr. Tsirbas is a member of RANZCO, ASOPRS, AAFPS, ESOPRS and specializes in blepharoplasty and facial rejuvenation.
He developed surgical techniques in the 1990's that are still used all around the world today. His work now specialises in obtaining the finest and most natural results for Cosmetic Oculoplastic Surgery. He is one of the few people in Australia that uses facial fillers on the background of of being a specialist Ophthalmologist and Oculoplastic Surgeon. Dr Tsirbas is based in the heart of Sydney’s beautiful harbour district.
Steven Liew
Dr Steven Liew is a specialist trained plastic surgeon in Sydney, Australia. Well regarded as an educator and a global innovator in the development of a series of world-first non-surgical procedures which have earned him an international reputation. Dr Liew’s LIFT techniques to re-shape and dramatically transform facial shapes and features have revolutionised the cosmetic industry. Dr Liew is a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS). Dr Liew is the brainchild and co-owner of Complete Face, the world first iPad interactive digital encyclopedia of facial injectables, available to the global facial clinicians. In 2019, Dr Liew started the all inclusive multi-disciplinary aesthetic conference focusing on all things non-surgical in Sydney: Aesthetics 2019, with the philosophy that education should be inclusive rather than exclusive.
Bryan Mendelson
Dr Mendelson is in private practice at The Centre for Facial Plastic Surgery in Melbourne Australia. In 1971 he moved to the USA to train in general surgery and plastic surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota for six years. There followed a fellowship at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in Manhattan, New York under Doctors Converse, Rees, Aston and others. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and The American Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr Mendelson has published on ‘Ageing of the Facial Skeleton’ and ‘The Long Term Results of Hydroxyapatite Augmentation of the Facial Skeleton’.
Jack Zoumaras
Dr Jack Zoumaras is a Plastic Surgeon based in Sydney’s east and owner of Artiste Plastic Surgery (established 2014)
After completing training he undertook a Facial Aesthetic Fellowship in New York and Paris.
He is currently chairman of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons NSW state chapter and has a facial aesthetic fellowship program running since 2020.
He is exclusively in private practice operating only on the face, nose and eyes. Offering patients advanced Facelift (deep plane and high Smas), Neck lift (Deep structure )
Eyelid, Brow (pony tail), and piezotome Rhinoplasty surgery.
He is a published author of “the art of a facelift” and regular teaches at conferences.
Greg Goodman
Greg Goodman is an Australian dermatologist and holds academic appointments as Associate Professor at Monash University, Melbourne and as an Associate Professor at the University College of London, is head of taskforce for the Australasian College of Dermatologists in higher education in Cosmetic Dermatology, president of the Australasian Society of Dermatologists (ASCD) and is Head of Surgery and leads the Mohs Micrographic Surgery Unit at the Skin Health Institute.
Dr Goodman holds a Doctorate of Medicine (MD) in post-acne scarring and a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology (GradDipClinEpi) from Monash University.
Dr Goodman lectures in Australia and internationally on skin ageing, skin care, cosmesis and complications of treatments. He has published widelyon acne, acne scarring, and cosmetic dermatology, Dr Goodman reviews for many local and overseas journals and is an International Contributing Editor of the Journal of Dermatologic Surgery.
Michael Zacharia
Dr Michael Zacharia is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Head and Neck (Otolaryngology) and practices in Facial Plastic Surgery. He is also an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) physician. Combining the latest medical, surgical and health techniques, Dr Zacharia strives to deliver the best outcome for each and every one of his patients.
Dr Zacharia has completed over 4000 rhinoplasty procedures throughout his career and many other advanced surgeries. He is one of only four Australian surgeons that have completed advanced surgical training on Deep Plane Facelifting and Neck Lifting in New York City. Dr Zacharia’s ability to achieve natural looking beauty using facial rejuvenation has earned him a prestigious reputation amongst the public, as well as within the medical community.
Adrian Lim
Dr Adrian Lim is a dermatologist and phlebologist with special interest in lasers and cosmetic dermatology. He is a medical director of uRepublic Cosmetic Dermatology & Veins and staff specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital where he runs the Burns Scar Laser Clinic and Cutaneous Neurofibroma Laser Clinic. He is the Editor-in-chief of Opinions and Progress in Cosmetic Dermatology, the official journal of the Australasian Society of Cosmetic Dermatologists.
Howard Webster
Howard Webster is a Melbourne plastic surgeon with 30 years private practice experience. He is in full time facial aesthetic practice and has a particular interest in upper face rejuvenation. He is a member of the MAFAC Faculty, which teaches advanced facial anatomy around the world to experienced surgeons.