Specialist Plastic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgeon

BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRACS, FACS

Michael W Findlay

Dr Michael Findlay is a fully qualified Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgeon and a multi-award-winning surgical researcher, with a strong focus in cancer surgery (head, neck, breast cancer, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers, hand and lower limb resection and trauma), in addition to being a translational surgical researcher. Dr Findlay is a former Fulbright scholar and is the Director of Australasian Clinical Trials in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

He heads the Program for Cellular and Molecular Innovation in Surgery at the University of Melbourne. A former Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University and the Inaugural Stanford Applied Regenerative Medicine Fellow, he was the first Australian to become appointed as a member of both the Association of Academic Surgeons and the esteemed Society of University Surgeons in the United States and became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 2013. Dr Findlay was the recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 in recognition for his ongoing contribution to clinical care and advancing surgical practice.

He practices at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Canberra Hospital, Epworth Freemasons and the National Capital Private Hospital and has private rooms at Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Melbourne and Canberra.