Scientist To Watch: Dr. Swee Tan
Dr. Swee Tan (ONZM MBBS PhD FRACS) Founder and Executive Director of the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute, Wellington, New Zealand. Consultant Plastic & Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgeon at Wellington Regional Plastic, Maxillofacial & Burns Unit, Hutt Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand.
Dr. Swee Tan is the Founder and Executive Director of the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute and a Consultant Plastic & Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgeon at the Wellington Regional Plastic, Maxillofacial & Burns Unit, Hutt Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand. He obtained an MBBS from the University of Melbourne in 1985 and an FRACS from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1992. Sparked by his interest and passion in researching the cause of, and a better way to treat strawberry birthmarks, he enrolled for a part-time PhD degree at the University of Otago and graduated in 2001.
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