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Phone: 8572 2564
Location:Dept. of Surgery, Level 5, E Block, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Road, CLAYTON VIC
Bio:
Prof Julian Smith is the Head, Department of Surgery (School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health), Monash University; Senior Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Monash Health; Academic Director, Surgery & Interventional Services Program, Monash Health; and Medical Director, Monash Heart Private at the Victorian Heart Hospital.
Prof Smith graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1981. His early post-graduate years were spent at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from where he obtained a Master of Surgery degree from the University of Melbourne and the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in General Surgery. Prof Smith’s Australian training in cardiothoracic surgery was carried out at the Royal Melbourne, Alfred and Royal Children’s Hospitals. After obtaining the FRACS in Cardiothoracic Surgery, he spent time at Stanford University in the USA and then Papworth Hospital in the UK for further training particularly in the field of heart and lung transplantation. In early 1995, he returned to the Alfred Hospital as a cardiothoracic surgeon and Deputy Head of the Heart and Lung Transplant Service, positions he held until September 2001.
Prof Smith is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and on the Council of its Australian and New Zealand Chapter. An experienced company director with a strong record of clinical and academic leadership, he is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He was recently a member of the first cohort of graduates to obtain a Master of Surgical Education from the University of Melbourne and was the first Australian to receive Fellowship of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Prof Smith has broad basic and clinical research experience in general and cardiothoracic surgery including organ transplantation and minimally invasive surgical techniques. Other research interests include robot-assisted surgery, simulation in surgery, acute and chronic renal impairment in the context of cardiac surgery, the assessment of patient outcomes through large databases and surgical education.
