Teaching and Publications
Dr. Kumar is appointed as a VMO at Nepean Public Hospital. This is a major teaching hospital in Sydney, and Dr. Kumar is responsible for training young plastic surgeons as well as providing plastic surgery services for this major hospital in Western Sydney. He is the current supervisor of resident training for the plastic surgical department.
As part of his teaching, Dr. Kumar has also been an Associate Clinical Fellow in Anatomy at the University of Technology Sydney and Notre Dame University and is an instructor for the Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB) courses in Australasia. He held the position of the inaugural Queensland Fire and Rescue Authority Burns Fellow at the Children’s Hospital in Brisbane for two years. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Shriners Burns Hospital in Dallas, Texas, as well as the Intermountain Burns Hospital in Salt Lake City.
With extensive research experience, Dr. Kumar is extremely well published and is a highly sought-after speaker at national and international conferences. He has been on expert panels for the Queensland Government and has been requested by various media sources to give his opinion on a variety of subjects, from the latest in plastic surgery trends to correcting poorly performed surgery by non-plastic surgeons. He is part of the Expert Advisory Board on cosmetic surgery for Vogue magazine and is featured on their expert panel for Breast and Body surgery.
Dr. Kumar was an invited speaker at the Breast Masters Symposium held in Sydney in 2018. This was the largest conference of national and international leaders focusing specifically on plastic surgery of the breast in Australia’s history.
