Dr John Masters

Dr Masters is a Royal Australasian College of Surgeons trained specialist Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon.  Having completed both his basic and specialist medical training in New Zealand he undertook two additional years of international Plastic Surgical fellowships, furthering his training in two of the most prestigious Plastic Surgical training Universities in the USA.

He was honoured to be the last international fellow to work with the late Professor John Bostwick and his team at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. This was followed by a year as a Hand Surgery fellow at Mt Sinai Hospital and New York University in New York, covering all aspects of Hand Surgery, with an emphasis on tetraplegia and nerve entrapment syndromes. Before returning to New Zealand he worked as a Hand Surgery locum consultant at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary in England. Mr Masters opened his full time private plastic surgical practice in Wellington in 2003.

Relocating to Warrnambool in 2016, Mr Masters joined Mr Toma at Warrnambool Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery where he is appointed to St John of God Hospital (private) and has public appointments to South West Healthcare Warrnambool and Portland Base Hospital.