Chris Kimber was educated at Peninsula Grammar School and received his medical degree at Monash University Medical School.
He has received the Monash Medical Centre Surgical Research Prize and held the 2007 Williamson Leadership Fellowship. Clinical interest in advanced fetal endosurgery and complex endoscopic urology and has pioneered a number of interventions in the fetus.
Chris has worked overseas at the department of surgery at Dundee University in Scotland and read Paediatric Surgery at Oxford University. He was a Visiting Senior Paediatric Surgical Registrar at Great Ormond Street Hospital London, General Surgical Registrar at Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand where he received two years of general and cardiac surgery experience.
Chris was also the medical superintendent at Tumutumu Hospital in Kenya, gaining experience working in third world medicine. Chris was appointed as Faculty for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in August 1997. During this period, Chris taught a number of courses and designed and implemented the endoscopic courses offered at Dundee.
Mr Kimber is Head of Paediatric Urology at Monash Medical Centre and Head of Paediatric Surgery at Monash Children’s. He currently visits metropolitan and country hospitals and consults privately at Cabrini Hospital. Graduated FAICD (Institute of Company Directors) in 2008. He is currently a director of Specialist Management Services, a company supplying informed consent information.
Chris has recently been appointed as the State Clinical Lead for Paediatrics at the Department of Health.
Prof. Wei Cheng
Prof. Wei Cheng graduated from Balmain High School, Sydney and obtained his MBBS degree from the University of New South Wale. He completed his general surgical training in Canberra, Sydney Australia and Hong Kong, acquiring FRCS (Edinburgh, Glasgow and Ireland).
He continued to specialize in paediatric surgery in Hong Kong, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK and Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He was a lecturer in paediatric surgery at the Hong Kong University, Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong before accepting the position of Chair of Paediatric Surgery at Monash University and Director of Paediatric Surgery, Southern Health in 2008.
Clinically, Prof. Wei Cheng is interested in neonatal surgeries and laparoscopic surgeries.
His interest in birth defects leads him to complete a four-years full-time PhD research in developmental biology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has established a laboratory research team in the Monash Institute of Medical Research. His research involves the molecular genetics of congenital abnormalities and regenerative medicine.
He volunteered for one year in the war-torn Angola, Africa in 2000 with Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). He enjoys morning swims, oil painting and reading (current affairs and history).
Peter Ferguson
Peter Ferguson studied Medicine at St Andrew’s Scotland before undergoing his clinical studies at Manchester University. He graduated in medicine in 1996 and was granted membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2001.
Peter gained paediatric surgical training at various hospitals in the United Kingdom including the Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children – Glasgow, and Royal Hospital for Sick Children – Edinburgh.
Peter achieved the FRCS Paediatric Surgery (UK) in 2007 and FRACS Paediatric Surgery (Australia) 2008 following his emigration to Australia. Peter currently works at Monash Children’s Clayton.
Peter has a particular interest in anorectal malformations.
Peter was granted the Emerging researcher fellowship 2009 – Southern Health
Yves Heloury
Yves Heloury was born in France and undertook all his medical and surgical training in France.
He became a Professor in Paediatric Surgery- Nantes (France) in 1990, and a Specialist in Paediatric Surgery (UEMS) in 1997.
Dr Heloury earned a Fellowship of the European Academy of Paediatric Urology in 2008 before emigrating to Australia and joining Monash Children’s as a consultant in 2009
From 2007-2009, Yves Heloury was President of the French College of Paediatric Surgery and between 2005-2009 was Head of Department of Paediatric Surgery (Nantes -France)
He previously held the position of President of the Medical Community (Nantes University Hospital) between 1999-2003
Yves Heloury has a strong interest in paediatric urology and paediatric renal transplants, genital surgery, surgical oncology and minimal invasive surgery
Dr Heloury has published 103 publications, 16 book chapters and 164 scientific communications.
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