Specialist Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeon
MBBS FRACS FRCS Edin
BREAST IMPLANTS
SKIN CANCER
HAND SURGERY
PLASTIC SURGERY
BODY CONTOURING
Dr Haertsch undertook his medical training at Sydney University and trained as a General Surgeon in Edinburgh. After several years of practice in General Surgery in Sydney, he went to England and the United States to retrain in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and spent some time at the McIndoe Burns Unit in East Grinstead, one of the world’s leading Burns Units.
Dr Haertsch has participated in over 40 trips with Interplast which is a voluntary organisation treating children with congenital deformity in developing countries. He has performed surgery in Tanzania, Pakistan, the Philippines and the South Pacific Islands.
Dr Haertsch has made a significant contribution to the plastic surgery literature and in particular, to the burns literature. Dr Haertsch is on the faculty of the John Boswick Burn Care and Wound Healing Group based in Maui, Hawaii and he presents at the weeklong annual conference.
He offers a 24 hour on call consultative service for burns to the French Government in New Caledonia and has also produced a 110 minute DVD on Burns Management for distribution in Pakistan and the Philippines. In addition, Dr Haertsch instructs in the Emergency Management of Severe Burns and has participated in courses in Darwin, Papua New Guinea and Bangladesh.
He was a significant driving force in the reorganisation of the burn services for NSW and was the Inaugural Chairman of the Severe Burn Injury Services Group. He was also directly responsible for the establishment of an Academic Chair in the Burn Injury and Reconstructive Surgery at Sydney University and is a member of the Sydney Burn Injury Foundation. He is the current Director of Burns Services at Concord Hospital.
He has been an accredited assessor for WorkCover and the Motor Accidents Authority of NSW and Tasmania for several years.
Associate Professor Haertsch is also a member of the Expert Advisory Group for Gender Differences, NSW Department of Health, and has contributed to the Lowe Report on the provision of gender reassignment surgery in NSW.
– 2018 Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Plastic Surgery)
– 2015 Master of Philosophy University of Sydney – Living Skin Project – Sydney Burn Foundation
– 2013 Subspecialty in Plastic Surgery
– 2001 Specialist Training in General Surgery
– 1996 Undergraduate Training at TUMS University
