Professional Profile

Richard Barton is a Melbourne trained Plastic Surgeon with a dual international fellowship in microsurgical reconstruction and adult craniomaxillofacial surgery, including rhinoplasty and facial aesthetic surgery. Richard graduated from medicine in 1998 and undertook a further 11 years training prior to his recognition as a specialist Plastic Surgeon. Following the completion of specialty training in Australia Richard embarked on a double international fellowship with appointments at Oxford University Hospitals UK, and Vancouver General Hospital Canada. During his 2.5 years overseas Richard worked as the Senior Plastic Surgical Fellow and as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in Oxford, gaining further experience in breast, head and neck and sarcoma reconstruction and hand surgery. He then completed an Adult Craniofacial Fellowship focussing on bony facial trauma and post-traumatic deformity reconstruction including rhinoplasty, with the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Richard has current public hospital appointments at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Alfred Hospital and Monash Health, where he manages adult facial trauma and complex microsurgical head and neck reconstruction. He is the RACS, Surgical Supervisor for Plastic Surgery Trainees and Director of the Advanced Microsurgical Fellowship for internationally qualified Plastic Surgeons at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. In his private practice Richard manages a diverse range of plastic surgical cases with a specific interest in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery of the face and nose. He performs breast surgery, body contouring surgery, hand surgery and provides the full spectrum of surgical skin cancer treatment.

Procedure Face:

• Brow lift
• Otoplasty (Ear pinning)
• Blepharoplasty (Eyelid surgery)
• Meloplasty or rhytidectomy (Face lift)
• Facial implants
• Facial scar revision
• Autologous fat grafting (Fat injection)
• Forehead lift
• Cheiloplasty (Lip lift)
• Platysmaplasty (Neck lift)
• Rhinoplasty

Procedure Breasts:

• Mastopexy (Breast lift)
• Reduction mammoplasty (Breast reduction)
• Male Reduction mammoplasty (Breast reduction) (Gynaecomastia)

Procedure Body:

• Abdominoplasty: cosmetic or muscle repair post-partum
• Gender affirming surgeries
• Torsoplasty (Whole body lift)

Procedure Reconstructive:

• Craniomaxillofacial
• Facial fractures
• Gender affirming surgeries
• Skin cancer

Hospitals affiliated with:

• Glenferrie Private Hospital
• St Vincent's Private Hospital
• The Alfred
• Vermont Private Hospital
• The Royal Melbourne Hospital
• Epworth Private Hospital

Professional Memberships and Associations:

• Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
• Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons