Your Plastic and Cosmetic Surgeon
Keith Mutimer
Mr Keith Mutimer is a specialist plastic and cosmetic surgeon based in Melbourne Australia. He operates from Cabrini Brighton Hospital and his own day surgery Brighton Plastic Surgery.
Fully Qualified Plastic and Cosmetic Surgeon
For thirty years Mr Mutimer has focused on a range of plastic cosmetic techniques, in particular craniofacial and maxillofacial, cleft lip and palate, facial deformities and hand surgery, for adults and children.
Mr Mutimer has been in private practice for over two decades. He performs a range of cosmetic surgery procedures for both men and women. They include full facelift, eyelid surgery, breast augmentation, reduction and lifting, liposuction, facial implants, neck surgery, endoscopic brow lift, laser resurfacing, ear reduction, thighlift/armlift, wrinkle reduction with fat injections and dermal fillers, and men's chest surgery.
For many years he worked with Interplast, an organisation which provides expert plastic and reconstructive surgery for people in South Pacific and northern Australian regions. His volunteer work with cleft lip and palate patients has changed the lives of many people in China, Fiji, Tonga, the Philippines, Vanuatu, Vietnam and Sri Lanka.
Professional Training
Mr Mutimer won a Commonwealth Scholarship to Monash University. His early surgical training was at Melbourne's Prince Henry's Hospital, Western General Hospital, Victorian Plastic Surgery Unit in Preston and Royal Melbourne Hospital. He obtained his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in plastic surgery in 1986.
He has studied, worked and taught overseas in London, Paris and America. He was a Fellow in Plastic Surgery at Oxford University in England, worked at Harvard University, the Children's Hospital, Brigham, was Chief Resident of Plastic Surgery at Women's Hospital in Boston, and Locum Chief Surgeon at the Lautoka Hospital in Fiji. He has published papers in plastic and reconstructive surgery, lectures plastic surgeons internationally on invitation and regularly attends conferences and workshops around the world.
Certification and Memberships
Mr. Mutimer is a member of many specialist surgical groups including:
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Vice President and Honorary Treasurer)
- Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (former President)
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- Council Member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
- Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
- Australasian Craniofacial and Maxillofacial Surgery Society
- Australasian Cleft Lip and Palate Association
- The American Society of Aesthetic Surgeons
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Check your surgeon's credentials
It is important that your plastic and cosmetic surgeon is fully qualified. To check the credentials of any surgeon call the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons on 02 9437 9200 or visit the website http://www.plasticsurgery.org.au.
Mr Mutimer believes in fully informing his patients in detail about the procedure they are considering and consults personally with all his patients.
