Jane O’ Brien MBBS FRACS

Jane O’Brien is a specialist breast surgeon whose practice is exclusively confined to breast work, encompassing the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of all benign and malignant conditions of the breast and surveillance and prophylactic surgery for high risk groups.

Jane completed her medical training in 1985, graduating from the University of Melbourne. Following advanced surgical training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne which she completed in 1994, she undertook a two year breast surgical fellowship in Melbourne and Edinburgh, Scotland. She then worked as a consultant breast surgeon in the United Kingdom for a period of eight years at a number of world class, internationally reknown breast units, during which time she gained extensive experience in reconstructive breast surgical techniques.

Following her return to Melbourne, she established the Epworth Breast Service in 2005, a private specialist facility providing rapid-access, integrated, patient-centred care, delivered by a multidisciplinary team including full-time breast care nurses with onsite access to all diagnostic and treatment modalities including breast MRI, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

She has interests in breast reconstruction, sentinel node biopsy and the organisation and delivery of multidisciplinary breast cancer care. Her area of special interest and expertise is in “oncoplastic” breast surgery, aimed at maximising the cosmetic result following breast conservation surgery for breast cancer using advanced surgical techniques.

She has public appointments at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre including the Familial Cancer Centre and also at Breastscreen Victoria.

All her private operating is performed at the Epworth Hospital , Richmond.