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1. BOB COOK AM ('47), TONY HOLMES, AND KEN
BREARLY ('46). 2. HARRIET AND PETER MOORE ('57).
3. ELIZABETH AND BRIAN RANDALL ('52).
4. BARBARA HOLDER, LOIS LOGAN AND JUDITH
MELVILLE. 5. JOHN CHRISTENSEN ('58) AND TIM
SHEARER ('85). 6. DR JOHN AND ANDREA MAYNARD
('55). 7. MILLICENT AND RON GOULD ('50), DON
MOYES ('50). 8. KEN AND ANNE SCOTT ('48), DON
MOYES ('50) AND WILL MACTIER ('53).
EAST
MELBOURNE
GLEN CHAPTER
EMG Winter Luncheon:
successful and enjoyable
This year's EMG Winter Luncheon was held on 6 June,
a beautiful, sunny Melbourne day. It was another highly
successful and enjoyable EMG event.
Guest speaker, Professor Tony Holmes AO, a senior
plastic surgeon at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Clinical
Professor at the Department of Paediatrics, University of
Melbourne, captivated the audience with his unique insight
into the advances in paediatric cranial surgery.
A renowned pioneer of complex reconstructive surgery
– one which delivers life-changing outcomes to children with
significant and distressing skull and facial deformities – Tony
shared how new procedures and the increasingly important
role of design engineers and three-dimensional imaging have
revolutionised his field. His craniofacial unit, established in
1979, is now the largest in the southern hemisphere, and his
techniques are used around the world.
Old Scotch Collegians have featured prominently in the
transformative world of plastic and maxillofacial surgery. Tony
paid tribute to the work of Old Boy, Sir Benjamin Rank (‘28),
who is considered by many to be the father of plastic surgery
in Australia.
It was a bonus to have Tony’s mentor and widely
respected oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Dr Robert (Bob)
Cook AM (‘47) seated alongside him. Bob was once
described by Scotch Old Boy, Associate Professor Andrew
Heggie (‘72), also a leading paediatric reconstructive surgeon
at the Royal Children’s Hospital, as a ‘giant upon whose
shoulders the rest of us stood’.
Tony Holmes and his wife Caroline are past parents of
Scotch: Charlie (‘08), and twins, Barnaby and Oliver (‘14).
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