Andrew Heggie

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Andrew A.C Heggie
NationalityAustralian
EducationMelbourne University; University of Washington
OccupationOral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Known forSurgical techniques for managing facial deformity
Medical career
InstitutionsRoyal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
AwardsMember of the Order of Australia 2019

Andrew A.C. Heggie is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.[1] His primary interest has been the management of developmental skeletal facial deformity, including patients with cleft lip and palate, craniofacial microsomia and infants with micrognathism. His contribution to the treatment of infant upper airway obstruction for Pierre Robin sequence, using internal devices for jaw lengthening using distraction osteogenesis, has replaced the need for tracheostomy in this condition. [2][3][4] In 2019, Heggie was awarded Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to medicine and dentistry in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery.[5]


Education[]

Completing his secondary school education at Scotch College, Melbourne in 1972, Heggie graduated from the University of Melbourne with first class honors in Dentistry in 1977. [6][7] He trained in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital and then undertook Fellowship training in Seattle at Providence Medical Centre and the University of Washington in 1982-1983.[8] He subsequently returned to the University of Melbourne and completed a medical degree with Honors in 1991. Additional Fellowship training was undertaken in craniofacial surgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital of Melbourne in 2001.[9]

Research and career[]

In 1994, Heggie was recruited to the Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital of Melbourne, where he was appointed Head, Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS), a position held until 2018 before transitioning to Senior OMS. In collaboration with craniofacial surgeon, Anthony D. Holmes, protocols for the comprehensive management of cleft lip and palate and other anomalies were further developed and refined with respect to the treatment of their facial deformities. [10] [11] In developing paediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery in Australasia, a Fellowship in this sub-specialty commenced in 2007 to the present. He has contributed to the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOMS) in cleft lip and palate and craniofacial microsomia. [12] From 2013-2015, he was president of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.[13] The Melbourne Research Unit for Facial Disorders was established by Heggie within the University of Melbourne in 2002 following a philanthropic donation for translational research. [14]

Awards and honors[]

Distinguished Service Award in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery: Australian Dental Association (Vic), 2008 [15]

Paul Harris Fellowship Award - Rotary International for services to Rotary Overseas Medical Aid for Children, 2008

Distinguished Service Award: Australian and New Zealand Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, 2011

Distinguished Service Award, Australian and New Zealand Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Victorian Branch, 2015

Honorary Fellowship - Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: Ad Hominem (FRCS Edin) for contribution to OMS, 2015 [16]

Meritorious Service Award- Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons- for services to Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, 2016[17]

Member of the Order of Australia (AM) – for services to medicine and dentistry in the field of oral & maxillofacial surgery, 2019 [18]


Professional Affiliations

Publications[]

  • Treatment outcomes for adolescent ectodermal dysplasia patients treated with dental implants.[19]
  • Use of a resorbable fixation system in orthognathic surgery.[20]
  • Juvenile mandibular chronic osteomyelitis: a distinct clinical entity.[21]
  • Tongue reduction for macroglossia in Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome: review and application of new technique.[22]
  • The role of distraction osteogenesis in the management of craniofacial syndromes.[23]

References[]

  1. ^ "Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery : Andrew A Heggie". www.rch.org.au. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  2. ^ Heggie, Andrew; Chigurupati, Radhika; Dargaville, Peter; Massie, John (10 February 2004). "Internal mandibular distraction to relieve airway obstruction in infants and young children with micrognathia". Pediatric Pulmonology. 37 (3): 230–235. doi:10.1002/ppul.10426. PMID 14966816. S2CID 43722670.
  3. ^ Heggie, Andrew; Adhikari, Ashim N; Shand, Jocelyn M; Bordbar, Patrishia; Pellicano, Anastasia; Kilpatrick, Nicky (2016). "Infant Mandibular Distraction for Upper Airway Obstruction: A Clinical Audit". Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open. 4 (7): e812. doi:10.1097/GOX.0000000000000822. PMC 4977140. PMID 27536491.
  4. ^ Beaumont, Lucy (17 December 2003). "Little Edan can breathe easier". The Age.
  5. ^ Honours, Australian. "Australian Honours". www.honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  6. ^ College, Scotch. "Reshaping lives - at the turn of a screw". www.scotch.vic.edu.au.
  7. ^ Dental School, Melbourne (20 July 2018). "Combining medicine and dentistry". www.dental.unimelb.edu.au/.
  8. ^ and Maxillofacial Surgery, Melbourne Oral. "Andrew Heggie". www.melbourneoms.com.au.
  9. ^ "Prof Andrew Heggie". www.epworth.org. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  10. ^ Holmes, Anthony; Heggie, Andrew; Lee, Shu Jin; Greensmith, Andrew; Meara, John (March 2010). "Nasal reconstruction for maxillonasal dysplasia". Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 21 (2): 543–551. doi:10.1097/SCS.0b013e3181d024b0. PMID 20216441. S2CID 38197087.
  11. ^ Holmes, Anthony; Wright, Graeme; Meara, John; Heggie, Andrew; Probert, Timothy (March 2002). "LeFort III internal distraction in syndromic craniosynostosis". Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 13 (2): 262–272. doi:10.1097/00001665-200203000-00014. PMID 12000884. S2CID 21457348.
  12. ^ Allori, Alexander; Kelley, Thomas; Meara, John; Albert, Asteria; Bonanthaya, Krishnamurthy; Chapman, Kathy; Cunningham, Michael; Daskalogiannakis, John; De Gier, Henriette; Heggie, Andrew; Hernandez, Cristina; Jackson, Oksana; Jones, Yin; Kangesu, Loshan; Koudstaal, Maartan; Kuchhal, Rajiv; Lohmander, Anette; Long, Ross; Magee, Leanne; Monson, Laura; Rose, Elizabeth; Sitzman, Thomas; Taylor, Jesse; Thorburn, Guy; Eeden, Simon Van; Williams, Chris; Wirthlin, John; Wong, Karen (1 September 2017). "A Standard Set of Outcome Measures for the Comprehensive Appraisal of Cleft Care". The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. 54 (5): 540–554. doi:10.1597/15-292. PMID 27223626. S2CID 43371901.
  13. ^ and Maxillofacial Surgery, Melbourne Oral. "Andrew Heggie". www.melbourneoms.com.au.
  14. ^ Hospital Melbourne, The Royal Children's. "Our Unit and its Translational Research Mission". www.rch.org.au.
  15. ^ Victoria, ADA. "ADAVB Award Recipients". adavb.org.
  16. ^ Melbourne, University of. "Andrew Heggie". www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au.
  17. ^ Cosson, John. "NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 2016". www.anzaoms.org.
  18. ^ Victoria, Health. "Health Services celebrate Queen's Birthday Honours". www.health.vic.gov.au.
  19. ^ Sweeney, I. P.; Ferguson, J. W.; Heggie, A. A.; Lucas, J. O. (2005). "Treatment outcomes for adolescent ectodermal dysplasia patients treated with dental implants". International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry. 15 (4): 241–248. doi:10.1111/j.1365-263X.2005.00610.x. ISSN 1365-263X. PMID 16011782.
  20. ^ Shand, J.M.; Heggie, A.A.C. (2000). "Use of a resorbable fixation system in orthognathic surgery". British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 38 (4): 335–337. doi:10.1054/bjom.1999.0287. ISSN 0266-4356. PMID 10922163.
  21. ^ Heggie, A.A.; Shand, J.M.; Aldred, M.J.; Talacko, A.A. (2003). "Juvenile mandibular chronic osteomyelitis: a distinct clinical entity". International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 32 (5): 459–468. doi:10.1016/s0901-5027(03)90417-6. ISSN 0901-5027. PMID 14759102.
  22. ^ Heggie, A.A.C.; Vujcich, N.J.; Portnof, J.E.; Morgan, A.T. (2013). "Tongue reduction for macroglossia in Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome: review and application of new technique". International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 42 (2): 185–191. doi:10.1016/j.ijom.2012.09.003. ISSN 0901-5027. PMID 23041202.
  23. ^ Heggie, AndrewA; Kumar, Ricky; Shand, JocelynM (2013). "The role of distraction osteogenesis in the management of craniofacial syndromes". Annals of Maxillofacial Surgery. 3 (1): 4–10. doi:10.4103/2231-0746.110063. ISSN 2231-0746. PMC 3645609. PMID 23662252.

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