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Career Statement

In pursuing a career in surgery I hope to develop a breadth of surgical skills in order to help people in high-need areas in Australia and worldwide. Having spent most of my life in Lebanon, I have firsthand experience of the difficulties that face such areas. I have seen how financially prohibitive medical advancements can be; the result, in conjunction with poor availability of care, is a widespread lack of access to limb- and life-saving treatments. I hope that, by pursuing a career in surgery, I can help to advance care in low socioeconomic and medically-deprived areas. 

I have engaged myself in volunteer work since my school days, in order to both advance my skills and make pro-social contributions to my community. During my JMO years, I have engrossed myself in the many learning opportunities that I have been fortunate enough to receive: this ranges from bedside joint aspirations to ascitic taps, from operating theatre to clinic experience. Despite the relative juniority of my career, I have also been able to pass my skills and competencies forward to medical students and my fellow JMOs in professional positions of leadership; these include both formal evaluations as well as informal teaching of clinical and procedural skills. 

In the future, I aim to: further expand the breadth of knowledge I have in the surgical field; increase my engagement in research and teaching opportunities; continue benefiting from the tutelage and expertise of my colleagues and seniors; and use all of my personal and professional edification in order to provide the best patient care that I am able.

NSW Health - NSLHD
2026

Unaccredited Registrar - Plastic and reconstructive surgery/Oral maxillofacial surgery

Notable achievements

Creating a shared organisation system for managing theatre lists, schedules, and presentations for operating days and M&M meetings which can be collaboratively worked on without disrupting individual efforts.

NSW Health - NSLHD
20262026

Senior Resident Medical Officer - Surgical Skill Network

Terms

  • General Surgery Nights - Concord Repatriation General Hospital
NSW Health - SLHD
20252026

Senior Resident Medical Officer - Surgical Skill Network

Terms

  • Plastic Surgery - Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
  • Urology - Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
  • Burns Surgery - Concord Repatriation General Hospital
  • General Surgery Nights - Concord Repatriation General Hospital

Notable achievements

While on the burns team I have gained extensive burns clinic experience and competent independent management of burns patients. I was afforded the ability to lead the burns service independently for multiple weeks due to unexpected concurrent absences in the team. This opportunity allowed me to juggle inpatient management, operating theatres, on-call duties for burns + plastics, and burns clinic with distant supervision from senior medical staff.

NSW Health - SWSLHD
20232025

Resident Medical Officer

Terms

  • Orthopaedics - Liverpool Hospital
  • Urology - Liverpool Hospital
  • Relief - Liverpool Hospital
    • Upper GI
    • General Medicine
    • Gastroenterology
    • Nights
  • Emergency - Liverpool Hospital
  • Vascular Surgery - Liverpool Hospital

Intern Medical Officer

Terms

  • Orthopaedics & Hands - Fairfield Hospital
  • Emergency - Liverpool Hospital
  • Acute Surgical Unit & Trauma - Liverpool Hospital
  • Relief - Liverpool Hospital
    •  Nights
    • Urology
    • Geriatrics
  • General Medicine - Liverpool Hospital

Notable achievements

Frequent participation in surgeries whenever able under the ASU team, orthopaedics team, hands team and vascular team. Performing multiple theatre I&D, surgical wound skin closure, sterile IDC insertion and assistance in surgical theatre setup prior to operation. Performance of multiple bedside procedures including knee aspirations, ascitic taps, punch biopsies, bedside I&D in ED, fiberglass and POP fracture splinting, traumatic wound cleaning and suturing, assisting with ward IDC insertion under cystoscopy, amongst others.

Additionally assisted in reviewing and working up patients in the Fairfield Hospital Hands clinic. Experienced with after hours admission of patients, formulating and enacting plans with approval of seniors.

Attended multiple level 2 trauma calls independently as an intern, as registrars were required in theatres, completed secondary surveys, formulated treatment and admission plans and cleared with seniors prior to implementing decisions.

Education

Royal Australian College of Surgeons
2025

General Surgical Skills Exam

Australia and new Zealand burns association (ANZBA)
2025

Emergency Management of Severe Burns

The University of Sydney
20192022

Doctor of Medicine

The American University of Beirut
20152018

Bachelor of Science - Biology

Interests

  • Language learning
  • Pottery
  • Playing music (piano, trombone)
  • Candle making
  • Programming
  • Hiking

Languages

English: natural proficiency

Arabic: natural proficiency

Spanish: basic conversational

Teaching, Volunteering and other Works

  • Newcastle University medical student teaching - 2026
  • USyd medical school teaching - 2025
  • Liverpool Hospital Intern Orientation - 2024
  • UNSW Phase 1 OSCE examiner - 2023
  • Bone School 2023 (Fairfield Hospital - under Dr Keran Sundaraj, consultant orthopaedic surgeon): Assisting in organization and moderation of orthopaedic bone school for SET trainee education. Role involved identifying and gathering suitable patients as well as all relevant imaging, organising locations, moderating station order and timing, as well as catering.
  • Trauma Department Consent Audit 2023 (Liverpool Hospital - under supervision of Melissa Murphy, Trauma coordinator CNC): Audit to monitor completion of consent documentation, measure compliance with requirements for the provision of information to patients, and obtaining consent to medical treatment.
  • Urology Liverpool Operating List creation and maintenance 2023-ongoing: Operating list to organise and complete outpatient testing and other requirements prior to admission for surgery. List made in order to be compliant with new NSWHealth online security and patient privacy requirements.
  • RPA Liver Transplant Team Volunteer 2019 - 2022: Assistance in Liver transplantation and retrieval operations under various liver transplant consultants. Included interstate multi-organ retrievals from Victoria and the ACT.
  • Sydney University Surgical Students Society member 2019 - 2022
  • Identify and Respond to Children and Young People at Risk course 2019
  • Red Cross Youth Volunteer 2012 - 2018 (Lebanon): Assistance in fundraising to support red cross community support and ambulance functions in Lebanon. Organisation of multiple youth camps, health literacy, and first aid educational seminars for youth around the country and junior volunteers within the red cross.
  • Rosalind programming courses
    • Python village 2018: Basic course for programming with Python
    • Bioinformatics Stronghold 2019 - ongoing: Python programming for bioinformatics

Referees

  • Dr Mihaela Lefter - Head of Department Plastic Surgery, Gosford Hospital, Gosford
  • Dr Susan Kok - Head of Department Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Gosford Hospital, Gosford
  • Dr Ilias Kotronakis - Head of Department Plastic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
    • P: +61 402 082 113
    • E: ilias@southernaesthetic.com.au
  • Dr Bishoy Soliman - Staff specialist Plastic surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
  • Dr Justine O'Hara - Head of Department Plastic Surgery, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney
  • Professor Peter Maitz - Head of Department Burns Surgery, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney