Prof Tony Penington
Prof Tony Penington
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Role
Group Leader / Honorary Fellow Manager
Research area
Clinical Sciences
Group
Facial Sciences
Professor Tony Penington is the inaugural incumbent of the Jigsaw Chair in Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Melbourne, the Royal Children's Hospital and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. His particular area of clinical and research interest is vascular anomalies, which are congenital errors of vascular development. He has also been involved in research into more general areas of paediatric plastic surgery, in particular the quantification of appearance by 3D photographic analysis. He is interested in the effect of appearance difference on quality of life and generally measuring outcomes in plastic surgery.
Professor Penington trained in Plastic surgery in Melbourne and Brisbane, qualifying in 1996. Following a period as a research fellow at the Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, he went to the UK to work for 18months as a clinical and research fellow in Oxford. Upon return to Melbourne he took up positions as Consultant Plastic Surgeon at The Royal Children's Hospital and St.Vincent's Hospital. Professor Peninginton has published over 80 original research articles and a textbook of skin flap malformations.
Professor Penington trained in Plastic surgery in Melbourne and Brisbane, qualifying in 1996. Following a period as a research fellow at the Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, he went to the UK to work for 18months as a clinical and research fellow in Oxford. Upon return to Melbourne he took up positions as Consultant Plastic Surgeon at The Royal Children's Hospital and St.Vincent's Hospital. Professor Peninginton has published over 80 original research articles and a textbook of skin flap malformations.
Professor Tony Penington is the inaugural incumbent of the Jigsaw Chair in Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Melbourne, the Royal Children's Hospital and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. His particular area of...
Professor Tony Penington is the inaugural incumbent of the Jigsaw Chair in Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Melbourne, the Royal Children's Hospital and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. His particular area of clinical and research interest is vascular anomalies, which are congenital errors of vascular development. He has also been involved in research into more general areas of paediatric plastic surgery, in particular the quantification of appearance by 3D photographic analysis. He is interested in the effect of appearance difference on quality of life and generally measuring outcomes in plastic surgery.
Professor Penington trained in Plastic surgery in Melbourne and Brisbane, qualifying in 1996. Following a period as a research fellow at the Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, he went to the UK to work for 18months as a clinical and research fellow in Oxford. Upon return to Melbourne he took up positions as Consultant Plastic Surgeon at The Royal Children's Hospital and St.Vincent's Hospital. Professor Peninginton has published over 80 original research articles and a textbook of skin flap malformations.
Professor Penington trained in Plastic surgery in Melbourne and Brisbane, qualifying in 1996. Following a period as a research fellow at the Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, he went to the UK to work for 18months as a clinical and research fellow in Oxford. Upon return to Melbourne he took up positions as Consultant Plastic Surgeon at The Royal Children's Hospital and St.Vincent's Hospital. Professor Peninginton has published over 80 original research articles and a textbook of skin flap malformations.
Top Publications
- Pyman, P, Kelly, CE, Dhollander, T, Delagneau, G, Elliott, EJ, Penington, AJ, Hearps, S, Collins, SE, Lewis, S, Liang, X, et al. Associations between white matter micro- and macro-structure and attention in 6-7-year-old children with low to moderate prenatal alcohol exposure.. Brain Imaging Behav 20(2) : 2026 view publication
- Claessens, N, Breakey, W, Penington, A, Claes, P, Burge, J. Long-term cranial shape outcomes in metopic synostosis: A 12-year follow-up study using 3D photography.. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 113: 568 -574 2026 view publication
- Fan, Y, Beare, R, Matthews, H, Schneider, P, Kilpatrick, N, Clement, J, Claes, P, Penington, A, Adamson, C. Marker-based watershed transform method for fully automatic mandibular segmentation from low-dose CBCT images. 2026 view publication
- White, JD, Ortega-Castrillón, A, Matthews, H, Zaidi, AA, Ekrami, O, Snyders, J, Fan, Y, Penington, T, Van Dongen, S, Shriver, MD, et al. MeshMonk: Open-source large-scale intensive 3D phenotyping. 2026 view publication
- Muggli, E, Halliday, J, Elliott, E, Penington, A, Thompson, DK, Spittle, A, Forster, DA, Lewis, S, Hearps, S, Anderson, PJ. Early School Years follow up of the Asking Questions in Alcohol Longitudinal Study in Melbourne, Australia (AQUA at 6): Cohort profile. 2026 view publication
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