Professor Mark Ashton is a plastic surgeon in Melbourne who specialises in breast surgery, breast reduction, breast lift, breast reconstruction, breast augmentation, post-pregnancy, abdominoplasty, upper blepharoplasty, female rhinoplasty, urogynaecological reconstructive genital surgery, and labiaplasty in Melbourne.
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Prof. Ashton is a distinguished Clinical Professor of Surgery and Honorary Professor of Anatomy at the University of Melbourne, and is the Chair of Plastic Surgery at Epworth Freemasons Hospital. He previously held senior leadership roles as Head of Plastic Surgery at The Royal Melbourne Hospital from 2001 to 2016 and at the Royal Women’s Hospital from 2000 to 2016. He is also a past President of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, serving from 2017 to 2019.
Mark is the Plastic Surgery Specialty Elected Councillor to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and continues to play an active role on the Board of Training and Council for the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, the New Zealand Society of Plastic Surgeons, and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He also contributes to healthcare governance as a member of the Perioperative Expert Advisory Board for Safer Care Victoria, where he provides expert advice to the Victorian Government on surgical safety and health policy.
Within academic publishing, Mark is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Australasian Journal of Plastic Surgery and an Invited Editor for the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal in the United States. His international teaching and professional involvement includes being an invited Faculty Member of the International Perforator Flap Course in Belgium, Chair of the Melbourne Advanced Facial Anatomy Course, and a regular participant in the London and Stockholm Breast Meetings.
Mark is the Director of the Taylor Research Laboratory in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Melbourne. He has also previously served as a Board Member and Chair of the Surgical Committee for Interplast, a not-for-profit organisation delivering plastic and reconstructive surgery services across the Asia Pacific. His academic contributions include eleven book chapters and more than 200 peer-reviewed articles published in leading national and international journals in plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Visit Prof. Ashton’ clinic at Epworth Freemasons, Suite A Ground Floor/166 Clarendon St, East Melbourne VIC 3002, Australia.
