ProfessorAndrew Holland

BSc (Hons), MB BS, PhD (Syd), Grad Cert Ed Studies (Higher Ed), FRCS (Eng), FRACS (Paed), FACS

Professor Andrew Holland is a Paediatric Surgeon and academic clinician whose research is in the areas of burn injury, paediatric trauma, models of paediatric surgical care and long term outcomes following surgery.

Professor Holland qualified MB, BS from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical and the University of London in 1988, after obtaining a BSc with Honours in Anatomy from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School of the same university in 1985. Following his initial postgraduate surgical training in London and Oxford, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1992. Migrating to Australia, he trained in General and Paediatric Surgery in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney before obtaining his FRACS in Paediatric Surgery in 1998.

As one of the first Surgeon Scientist Scholars of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2002. In the same year he commenced as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and Senior Staff Specialist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He obtained a Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies in 2004 to develop academic expertise in education and teaching research. Promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, he was appointed to a personal chair in Paediatric Surgery in 2010. Professor Holland was admitted as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 2010 and to the Faculty of Surgical Educators in 2011.

Professor Holland has over 250 publications in the peer reviewed scientific literature and has been awarded collaborative international research grants and scholarships. He is on the Editorial Board of several journals including the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, Pediatric Surgery International. the Australasian Journal of Plastic Surgery and Surgical Practice.

Professor Holland was the Foundation Director of the Children's Hospital Burns Research Institute, established in 2004. He was a Foundation Senior Medical Advisor of the Kim Oates Australian Paediatric Simulation Centre, opened in 2009. He is also a busy general Paediatric Surgeon with clinical commitments at The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Royal North Shore Hospital. Professor Holland remains committed to improving the care of burn and other traumatic injuries in children.