Associate Professor Cindy Mak

A/Prof Cindy Mak is a Sydney qualified and trained general surgeon with a breast disease subspeciality.

TRAINING & BACKGROUND

A/Prof Mak completed her medical training with Honours at Sydney University. She obtained her general surgery qualifications in Sydney, before deciding to subspecialise in breast surgery.

She was appointed the Breast Fellow and Surgical Superintendent at Concord Hospital and went on to obtain further oncoplastic surgery experience at the Edinburgh Breast Unit, one of the largest breast units in the United Kingdom, where she worked as a fellow and consultant surgeon.

APPOINTMENTS & POSITIONS

Having returned to Sydney from the UK in 2009, A/Prof Mak is now Director of Breast Services at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse (Camperdown) and Head of Breast Surgery at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She also operates and consults at the Mater Hospital (North Sydney). She has VMO accreditation at Strathfield Private Hospital and Hunters Hill Private Hospital, where she collaborates with her plastic surgery colleagues.

A/Prof Mak is a Visiting Medical Officer at BreastScreen NSW, a member of the Australasian Society for Breast Disease, the ANZ Breast Cancer Trials Group, the Australian Medical Association, the Australian Chinese Medical Association and is an honorary scientific officer at The Garvan Institute. She is an active member of Breast SurgANZ, the specialty society for surgeons treating breast cancer.

She is the current chair of the oncoplastic subcommittee of Breast SurgANZ, a committee dedicated to supporting breast surgeons with an oncoplastic surgery interest. She has a role in national policy making and has been involved in Cancer Australia media statements and policy. Her current main research interest is in sensation-preserving mastectomy - attempting to retain sensation to the skin (and nipple if present) after a mastectomy.

COMMUNITY

A/Prof Mak has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences on breast disease and has been featured on episodes of Channel Nine’s RPA program, and This Time Next Year. She regularly presents at community and GP information days. She sits on the board of The Sydney Breast Cancer Foundation.

Her research has been published in international journals and she remains committed to research in breast cancer. She has been acknowledged for her contribution in books such as Kaz Cook’s ‘Women’s Stuff’.