Invited Speakers
Please visit regularly for updated speaker information.
Dr Kenneth Chan
Opthamologist, Wellington Regional Hospital and Hutt Hospital;
Director of Training and Secretary, NZ Branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Opthamologists
Wellington, NZ
Professor Tony Penington
Jigsaw Professor of Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute;
Chair, AVAN
Melbourne, Australia
A/Prof Philip Bekhor
Director of the Laser Unit, Dept of Dermatology, and Consultant, Vascular Anomalies Clinic, Royal Children's Hospital;
Honorary Consultant Dermatologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
Dr Swee Tan
Founder and Executive Director, Gillies McIndoe Research Institute;
Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Hutt Hospital
Wellington, NZ
Dr Emma McCahon
Paediatrician, General Paediatrics and Oncology,
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Sydney, Australia
A/Prof Roderic Phillips
Research Scientist and Clinician,
Coordinator of the Vascular Anomalies Clinic, Royal Children's Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
Dr Lydia Park
Non-SET Plastic Surgery Registrar,
Hutt Hospital
Wellington, NZ
Dr Susan Robertson
Consultant Dermatologist,
Royal Children's Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Monash Medical Centre
Melbourne, Australia
Dr Trevor Fitzjohn
Interventional Vascular and Neuroradiologist, Wellington Hospital,
Director of Pacific Radiology
Wellington, NZ
Dr Helen Brasch
Anatomical Pathologist,
Hutt Hospital
Wellington, NZ
Dr Fiona Smithers
Plastic Surgeon,
Hutt Hospital
Wellington, NZ
Dr Philip Leadbitter
Consultant Paediatrician,
Hutt Valley DHB
Wellington, NZ
Dr David Lord
Australian Interventional Radiologist, Children's Hospital Westmead
Sydney, Australia
A/Prof Kurosh Parsi
Head of Dept of Dermatology, St Vincent's Hospital;
Program Head, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research; President, International Union of Phlebology (UIP)
Sydney, Australia
Mr Koen De Ridder
Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon,
Capital & Coast DHB
Wellington, NZ
A/Prof John Su
Director of Dermatology, Eastern Health;
Consultant - Royal Children's Hospital, Austin Health, Peninsula Health, Monash Health and Western Health; Adjunct Professor - Monash University, Eastern Health and the University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia