Dr. G. Mark Malouf

Award of Excellence for the Promotion of Australasian Phlebology on an International Level

Dr G Mark Malouf graduated MB BS University of Sydney, Australia in 1976. The next seven years were spent at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney as resident then surgical registrar in training. He was awarded surgical fellowship (FRACS) in 1983. He then spent almost three years in the United Kingdom as a surgical fellow and registrar, being awarded FRCS (Lon) in 1984. During the time Phlebology training was undertaken with Mr John T Hobbs and Prof. Andrew Nicolaides at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London. He spent time also with Mr Stanley Rivlin, venous surgeon in private practice. Dr Malouf returned to Sydney in general surgery and phlebology practice late in 1985. He became secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Phlebology in 1986. He became president of that body in 2000. He has represented Australasian phlebology on the council of the Union International de Phlebologie since that time and commenced a four-year term as an international Vice President of the UIP in 2005. Dr Malouf has been an enthusiast in phlebology all this time, talking to various groups locally and abroad about Phlebology in Australia. He was actively involved in the organisation of the UIP World Congress held in Sydney in 1998, and was an investigator in the Australian Polifocanol Trial which lead to the registration of that sclerosant in Australia. He is currently in private and hospital phlebology practice in Sydney.