Plastic Surgeon / MBBS (Hons) FRACS MBA.
Howard Webster is a Melbourne plastic surgeon in private practice since 1994, specialising in facial aesthetic surgery.
Trained in Australia, and with two years of post graduate training in adult craniofacial surgery and head and neck reconstruction in the UK and USA, he had a broad plastic surgery practice until 2010 when he restricted his practice to facial plastic surgery and another specific interest, plastic surgery after massive weight loss.
Working in these areas of specialisation, most of Howards patients are in need of aesthetic medical treatments as well as surgery. Starting in the late 1990’s he has had a practice focus in aesthetic medicine through collaborating as a team with expert aesthetic doctors.
He has presented often at national and international conferences, and has organised many educational events.
He has been a senior faculty member of the Mendelson Advanced Facial Anatomy Course for a 10 years, and teaches facial anatomy to plastic surgeons around the world regularly.
He is still fascinated by the endless variety of insights, patience, challenge and artistry demanded by the discipline of facial aesthetic surgery, and finds deep satisfaction and joy in working with his patients and the Dr Face team of doctors to achieve the best patient outcomes possible.
Career Highlights
- 10 years of service to Australian Plastic Surgery with ASPS
- Elected President of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons 2008 – 9
- Founding Chairman of the Australasian Foundation for Plastic Surgery, which was conceived and implemented during his term as ASPS President. The Foundation provides education, support, research and outreach in Australasian plastic surgery.
- Head of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at one of Melbourne’s largest public hospitals (eventually moving to full time private practice).
- Served on the Avant (Insurance) Medical Advisory Council, which works to continually develop standards, reduce surgical risks and improve safety of practice.
- Invited by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons to serve on their International Advisory Committee in 2009, and is the first Australian surgeon to have done so.
- Co-authored five chapters in plastic surgery textbooks
- Has presented at, chaired, convened, organised and been an invited speaker to many national and international plastic surgery meetings.
- Invited teaching faculty for the IPRAS World Congress in Plastic Surgery, Vancouver, 2011.
- In 2013 was the Scientific Convener for the 2013 Australasian National Plastic Surgery Congress.
- In 2015 became a Faculty member Dr Bryan Mendelson’s MAFAC, and as senior Faculty regularly teaches facial anatomy to established plastic surgeons in Australia, the USA and Europe. MAFAC has been described as the finest aesthetic facial anatomy course on the planet.
