Associate Professor Sydney Ch’ng is a Head & Neck and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon at Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA), Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Cancer Centre and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA). She is Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Sydney, and Academic Head for Plastic Surgery at RPA.

She currently chairs the Education Committees at MIA and the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. During her surgical training, she participated in the surgeon-scientist training pathway, and was awarded a PhD in Tumour Biology in Head Neck Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Post-FRACS, she undertook almost 3 additional years of fellowship training in head and neck ablative and reconstructive surgery (Sydney Head & Neck Cancer Institute, NSW), advanced oncological reconstructive surgery (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX) and adult craniofacial surgery (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan).

Her busy fully-integrated clinical and academic practice focuses on melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancers, parotid surgery, microsurgery, facial symmetrisation (including for facial palsy) and rejuvenation. She delivers evidence-based and patient-centred care where clinical, cosmetic and functional outcomes are optimised. She has published >100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 15 book chapters. She is an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Aidan Fitzgerald qualified in 1988 from Liverpool University and has been a Consultant Plastic Surgeon since 2003 in Sheffield with an interest in surgery of the Head & Neck and Skin Cancer.

He trained as a registrar in Edinburgh and Glasgow with subsequent microsurgical fellowships in Melbourne and Toronto.

He has maintained an interest in training having previously been the regional training programme director in Yorkshire and the East Midlands and Chair of the SAC in Plastic Surgery for the UK and Republic of Ireland.

He is an FRCS(Plastic Surgery) examiner and Professor of Surgical Education at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

He currently undertakes medicolegal practice having completed in excess of 4000 reports, attended Court on numerous occasions and acts as an expert witness for the General Medical Council in fitness to practice tribunals.

He has been awarded a Doctorate in Education focusing on professionalism within Plastic Surgery particularly as to how different generations perceive this concept.

L.Scott Levin, MD, FACS, is the Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery (with tenure), Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Professor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery). He is also the Medical Director of the Penn Musculoskeletal and Rheumatology Service Line. He also serves as Vice President and Associate Dean for Resource Development at Penn Medicine. Dr. Levin is Board-certified in Orthopaedic Surgery and has a Certificate of added Qualification in hand surgery. In addition, he is Board-certified in Plastic Surgery.

As an accomplished clinician, his expertise focuses on surgery of the hand and upper extremity, reconstructive microsurgical techniques for extremity reconstruction and limb salvage. His research interests focus predominantly on extremity soft tissue reconstruction and vascularized composite allotransplantation.

Dr. Levin heads the Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Program at Penn and directed the teams that performed bilateral hand and arm transplants, one in September 2011 and two international patients, one in August 2016 and then February 2019. In 2015, as Director of the Pediatric Hand Transplantation Program of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he led the team that performed the world's first bilateral hand transplant in a child.

Widely published with more than 440 peer-reviewed journal articles, 98 book chapters and 12 books, Dr. Levin also actively participates in senior leadership activities of many international and national professional societies and associations including President of the World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, President of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, member-at-large of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, President of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation and member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Plastic Surgery.  Dr. Levin is responsible for developing the field of "Orthoplastic Surgery" and currently is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Orthoplastic Surgery (Elsevier).