Rowan Gillies

{{Short description|Australian plastic surgeon}}

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|name = Rowan Gillies

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|nationality = Australian

|occupation = Plastic and reconstructive surgeon

|education = Sydney Grammar School
University of New South Wales

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.drrowangillies.com |title=Dr Rowan Gillies |publisher=Dr Rowan Gillies |date= |accessdate=2016-12-05}} He is the youngest ever International Council President of the Nobel Prize–winning Médecins Sans Frontières.{{Cite web |url=http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=E52B51E1-5056-AA77-6C35C87E4DD20560&component=toolkit.article&method=full_html |title=Médecins Sans Frontières International Homepage |access-date=2009-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413191228/http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=E52B51E1-5056-AA77-6C35C87E4DD20560&component=toolkit.article&method=full_html |archive-date=2009-04-13 |url-status=dead }}

Educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduating with honours from the University of New South Wales, Dr Gillies is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/01/1067597203231.html?from=storyrhs |title=Sydney doctor's major operation - National |publisher=smh.com.au |date=2003-11-02 |accessdate=2016-12-05}} In January 2002 he became Australia's MSF leader and was thereafter elected as international leader that year.{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/04/1091557900430.html?from=storylhs |title=Fearful frontier - Science |publisher=www.theage.com.au |date=2004-08-05 |accessdate=2016-12-05}} 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.http://bulletin.syd.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=177687&print=true{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

He was listed by The Age as one of "The 50 Australians Who Matter" in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/20/1106110882796.html |title=The 50 Australians who matter - National |publisher=www.theage.com.au |date=2005-01-22 |accessdate=2016-12-05}}

Gillies delivered the prestigious 52nd annual Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture in 2009 in Brisbane, Australia.uqms.org{{failed verification|date=December 2018}}

He is currently part of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, the findings of which were published in early May 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsurgery.info |title=Lancet Commission on Global Surgery |publisher=Globalsurgery.info |date= |accessdate=2016-12-05}}