Ms Melanie Walker
Member of: Epworth General Surgery Clinical Institute
Speciality
Subspeciality
- Breast Surgery
Areas of interest
Oncoplastic breast surgery
About
Miss Melanie Walker is an experienced breast surgeon who treats benign and malignant breast disease. Having obtained her Fellowship in General Surgery in 2002, she then completed a three year specialty breast surgery Fellowship in the UK. Melanie is an expert in the treatment of breast cancer, at the forefront of new surgical techniques and is heavily involved in the teaching and training of breast surgeons in Australia & New Zealand. Melanie has a special interest in oncoplastic breast surgery, that is, the combination of optimal cancer surgery with plastic surgical techniques to achieve the best oncological and aesthetic outcome after breast surgery. Melanie is President of BreastSurgANZ, the specialist society for treating breast disease in Australia & New Zealand. She is a Clinical Lead for the Australian Breast Device Registry (ABDR) and serves on a number of strategic advisory groups including Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) & the Australian Access to Breast Reconstruction Collaborative Group.
Consulting locations
Consulting Location
Epworth Consulting Suites
Level 7, Lee Wing
62 Erin Street
Richmond
VIC
3121
Consulting Location
No 29 Specialist Centre
29 Hastings Rd
Frankston
VIC
3199
Epworth locations
Qualifications
- MBBS (Hons) Monash University 1994
- FRACS 2002
Education and training
- Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Fellowship - Glasgow 2004
- Advanced General Surgical Training - The Alfred 1998-2002
Professional Associations
- Breast Surgeons of Australia and New Zealand (BreastSurgANZ)
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and General Surgeons Australia
- Australasian Society of Breast Disease (ASBD)
- Australasian Society for Ultrasound Medicine (ASUM)
- The American Society of Breast Surgeons and Association of Breast Surgery (UK)
- Oncoplastic Breast Consortium
Public Appointments
- The Alfred
- Monash Health
- Monash BreastScreen