Southern Adelaide Local Health Network; Australia

Prof Robert Padbury is an experienced Clinical Executive who has extensive experience in clinical surgery, clinical leadership and executive engagement.

He is the Clinical Director of Surgery at Flinders Medical Centre (appointed 2001) and has had significant achievements highlighted through the establishment of the SA Liver Transplant Unit at Flinders Medical Centre in 1992, the development and introduction of clinical protocols and the adoption of clinical practice improvement programmes. He was the foundation President of the ANZHPBA (Australian and New Zealand Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Association) and the Chairman of the SA Surgical Taskforce. His current clinical practice is in the area of general surgery with a subspecialist interest in surgery of the liver, gallbladder and pancreas.