Stuart P. Pegg, MD

Stuart P. Pegg, MD, has been a professor emeritus at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, since 2001. On campus for five years, he specialized in teaching burn surgery methods to students. As a physician, Dr. Pegg held the role of director of surgery at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, and surgical supervisor for 51 years beginning in June 1967. He previously held the role of surgical registrar at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in England from 1965 to 1966 and the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane from 1962 to 1964, and was a medical superintendent at Julia Creek in Queensland from 1958 to 1961.

An honorary lifetime member of the International Society for Burn Injuries and a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Dr. Pegg is also affiliated as a member of multiple other organizations. Some of these include the American Association for Surgery of Trauma, the Australian Medical Association and the American Burn Association. He is notably a past president of the Australian and New Zealand Burn Associations and the Churchill Fellows’ Association of Queensland, and a past vice president of the International Society for Burn Injuries.

Honored in 2018 with the University of Queensland Vice-Chancellors Alumni Excellence Award, Dr. Pegg previously received a 2003 G. Whitaker International Burn Prize in Sicily, Italy, and received a Decorated Order of Australia. He has been included in several editions of Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and Who’s Who in the World. The major burns centre in Queensland is at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and, in 2003, it was named the Professor Stuart Pegg Adult Burns Centre. The burns centre at the Queensland Children’s Hospital also bears his name.

Dr. Pegg received a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, with honors, in 1956, interned at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1957 and later earned an MD in 2006 at the University of Queensland. He served seven years as a major in the Australian Army Reserve between 1981 and 1987. Dr. Pegg is registered in general and pediatric surgery through the Medical Board of Queensland.