Few have impacted our industry more than Colin Moore. He was respected and admired by all who knew him and as the Foundation President of the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery and Medicine (ACCSM), he was a generous mentor to many in the aesthetic medicine and surgery field.
His academic career commenced in the 1970s as lecturer and then senior lecturer in Paediatric Surgery at Monash University, and he then spent 10 years in the Middle East (1983-1994) setting up children’s surgical services in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre. He returned briefly to Australia and then was appointed Head of the Department of Surgery and Foundation Paediatric Surgeon at the King Khalid National Guard Hospital in Jeddah. After two years in that position he returned to Australia in 1994 and undertook a two-year Fellowship in Aesthetic Surgery, following which he commenced practicing cosmetic surgery in the private sector in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
He remained active in the ACCSM as a Councillor, Censor-in-Chief and examiner for the Fellowship exam of the College and continued as a Councillor and Member of the Board of Censors. Throughout this time he was very active in the Registrar Training Program of the College, both as an administrator and trainer of registrars.
In 2014, he was instrumental in setting up the Breast Devices Registry, which is administered by Monash University. In 2015, he was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
He passed peacefully from complications of Motor Neurone Disease on 8 November in the presence of his loving wife Lynn and his immediate family. RIP.
