Associate Professor Waxman is an honours medical graduate of Monash University, Victoria, and completed
general surgery training at Alfred Hospital Melbourne. He obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian
College of Surgeons in 1982. His postgraduate experience included general and colorectal surgery training
with clinical and research attachments at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London, North Tees General
Hospital, Stockton-on-Tees, UK, and the University of Minnesota group of colorectal surgeons in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA. He completed colorectal surgery on returning to Australia at The University of Melbourne
Department of Surgery, Austin Hospital.

Professor Waxman is Director of General Surgery for Southern Health, Head of Surgery at Dandenong
Hospital, Unit Head of Colorectal Surgery at Dandenong Hospital and Member of the Colorectal Surgery Unit
at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Southern Health. He also operates at Casey Hospital, Cranbourne Day
Surgery and Monash Medical Centre, Moorabbin. He is Associate Professor and Director, Academic Surgical
Unit, Monash University, Southern Clinical School at Dandenong Hospital. In this role, he co-ordinates undergraduate medical student teaching and research, and postgraduate teaching, training and research for the next generation of Australian surgeons.

Professor Waxman established South East Colo Rectal at Suite 5, 118 David Street, Dandenong, in 2005 as the
main focus for his consultative colorectal surgery practice. He also consults at Berwick, Clayton, Cranbourne
and Cowes, Phillip Island. He has private hospital appointments at The Valley Private Hospital, Mulgrave, South
Eastern Private Hospital, Noble Park, Jessie MacPherson Private Hospital, Clayton, St John of God Hospital,
Berwick, and Warley Private Hospital, Cowes.

His main area of interest is colorectal surgery with a particular interest in the anorectal problems of
incontinence, defecatory problems, haemorrhoids, fissure and fistula. He manages patients with bowel cancer
involving the colon, rectum and anus, and those of inflammatory bowel disease. He has developed a special
interest in dealing with patients with complex abdominal problems, particularly enterocutaneous fistula and
adhesions. His long term interests in total parenteral nutrition and surgical nutrition have given him expertise
in venous access for long term parenteral nutrition and for chemotherapy.

His major areas of interest are in the healing and techniques of bowel anastomosis, intra-abdominal adhesions
prevention and treatment and in medical education. He was awarded the Cutler Prize by the Royal College
of Surgeons of England for his invention of an irrigating scalpel, used specifically for dividing intraperitoneal
adhesions. He is also an author of many research publications and text books.

Professor Waxman is Councillor with the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australasia and a Member of the
American Society of Colorectal Surgeons, the European Association of Coloproctology and the Association of
Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. He is a Member of the Executive Board and Associate Treasurer
of the International Society of University Colorectal Surgeons.

He was the Chair of the Scientific Program for the Tripartate 2002 Colorectal Meeting in Melbourne and is the
Convenor for the next Tripartate Meeting in Australia in 2011 in Cairns, Queensland. He is also a Member of
the Gastrointestinal Committee, Cancer Council of Victoria and the Colorectal Tumour Group of the Southern
Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service (SMICS).

Professor Waxman is especially interested in maintaining the highest possible standards for surgery in
Australia and New Zealand, being a councillor with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and its many
committees, from 2000 - 2007, including Chair, Board of Special Surgery Training, Chair of the Working Party
on Safe Hours, Chair, Section of Academic Surgery and Member, Women in Surgery Committee, Court of
Examiners, Ethics Committee, Instructor on the EMST CCRSIP and DSTC.

He is Senior Editor with the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery and on the Editorial Board
of the Diseases of the Colon and Rectum and a reviewer with the British Journal of Surgery.

Professor Waxman is committed to serving the people of Australia and is an active member of the RAAF
Specialist Reserve as a General Surgeon with the rank of Squadron Leader. In this capacity, he has
volunteered for deployments in Bougainville, East Timor and Bali, and was surgical team leader for
the Victorian medical team that was deployed to Banda Aceh following the Indian Ocean tsunami.
His interest in surgical trauma is in Education and Disaster Preparedness.

Professor Waxman is a Director on the Board of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Victorian
Section), and Assistant Group Leader, 1st Malvern Scouts Group, Australian Scout Association, and in this
capacity he has provided medical service and leadership at three Australian Jambourees.
He is married, with five children and spends most of his spare time with his family or pursuing his interests
in Australian history, aviation, tennis and travel.