Tony Penington
Tony trained in Plastic surgery in Melbourne and Brisbane, qualifying in 1996. Following a period as a research fellow at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, he went to the UK to work for 18 months as a clinical and research fellow in Oxford. Back in Melbourne he took up positions as Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Royal Children’s Hospital and St. Vincent’s Hospital. He also held the positions of Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and Department of Surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team based at the Children’s Hospital that services all of Victoria and Tasmania with referrals from other parts of Australia and overseas, Tony has a special interest in haemangiomas and vascular malformations.
As Deputy Director of the Bernard O’Brien Institute, Tony combines a strong research interest with a busy clinical practice. He has published nearly 40 original research articles and a textbook of skin flap surgery. He recently received an NH&MRC project grant to study the biology of lymphatic malformations and was awarded an MD from the University of Melbourne in 2008.