David Hunter-Smith is a Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon (MBBS, FRACS) with a special interest in reconstructive microsurgery, hand surgery, public health and foreign aid surgery.

He trained in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, USA and Holland. 

He is a member of the Board of Plastic Surgery for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and supervises advanced training and plastic surgery for Peninsula Health Care Network in Victoria.

He sits on the International Committee for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and is a member of the International Projects Management Committee.  He is very involved with Interplast Australia and New Zealand (www.interplast.com.au). David is a Director, Board Member and Chairman of the Program planning and evaluation committee for Interplast.  He is a member of the surgical committee and the country coordinator for Bangladesh and Nepal.

Interplast Australia is an NGO that provides volunteer humanitarian reconstructive surgical missions to the developing world.  Interplast is one of Australia's best kept secrets! and will celebrate it's 25 year anniversary in 2008. Interplast now sends 30 teams annually to 18 recipient countries.    

David has delivered programs to Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea (Lae, Madang, and Mount Hagan), Myanmar (microsurgery training program – AusAID), Nepal, Bangladesh many times, and will be conducting a needs assessment for another program to Cambodia in 2008.

His main personal projects are the development of a microsurgery training program within the developing world which is now an Australian government funded project that is the only reconstructive surgery program of it's kind in the world. He has established a  hand therapy training program and capacity building within Bangladesh, and is working on a burn management program within Bangladesh. 

He is the patron of the Australian Bangladesh Foundation and is currently studying his Masters in Public Health (International Studies) Degree at Monash University.  He has a particular interest in the long term development and sustainable surgical outreach as a primary health care initiative in developing countries.

He has a busy surgical practice on the Mornington Peninsula, working as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon for Peninsula Health Care Network and also privately.  As a senior lecturer in Surgery he teaches medical students for Monash University.