Matthew Hadfield

Mr Hadfield graduated from the Universities of St Andrews and Manchester in the UK. He undertook his postgraduate surgical training in the Yorkshire and North-Western training schemes in the UK before taking up a position as consultant Vascular and General Surgeon at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, the largest trust in the UK at the time. As well as a busy practice in vascular surgery there, he was foundation programme director and clinical director of surgery.

Mr Hadfield relocated to Australia in 2012 to take up the Clinical Director of Surgery post and a position as specialist vascular surgeon at Ballarat Health Services. He is chair of the Victorian State Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and remains a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is also Deputy Chair of the Victorian Clinical Council.