My Practice

Dr. William Mooney

Mission Statement

I believe that surgery involving the head and neck including ear, nose and throat, and facial cosmetic surgery represents some of the most complex and challenging procedures. Specialised training and experience is essential for optimum results, but real success requires more than just dexterity and good training. It requires patience, excellent communication and a commitment to the patient from the first consultation through treatment and on to careful and attentive post-operative care. As a professional surgeon I offer this to all my patients.

Biography

Dr William Mooney is a fully qualified Ear, Nose and Throat, Facial Cosmetic and Head and Neck Oncology Surgeon. He attended Monash Medical School in Victoria where he was the winner of the Final Year Medical and Surgical prizes. General Surgical training followed at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne and in the United Kingdom before Ear, Nose and Throat, and Head and Neck surgical training in the New South Wales program.

Dr Mooney became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2000. After completing this surgical training Dr Mooney travelled widely to further his expertise. He attended formal training fellowships in head and neck oncology surgery and rhinology in London, at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and a facial plastic and cosmetic fellowships with the Australasian Academy of Facial Plastic Surgeons. He has attended visiting fellowships in head and neck surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, in voice and laryngology with Jean Abitol in Paris and in further facial cosmetic surgery at the Lasky Clinic in Los Angeles.

Since returning to Sydney Dr Mooney has been appointed as a specialist surgeon at both Sydney Hospital in Macquarie street, and at Bankstown Lidcombe Health Service. He also attends Bondi Junction, St Luke's, Strathfield and Hurstville Community Private Hospitals. His private rooms are in Bondi Junction, Bankstown, Melbourne and Darwin.

Dr Mooney is actively involved in research and teaching and has presented and published at both a local and international level. He is Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, a member of the Australian Society of Otolaryngologists and Head and Neck Surgeons, a member of the Australian Academy of Facial Plastic Surgeons, the Australian Rhinological Society, the Australian Medical Association and the (Sydney) Eastern Suburbs Medical Association.

Research/ Presentations

• Mooney W, Investigation and treatment of the hoarse patient. Presentation at ESMA General Meeting. 2004, Blue Mountains, Australia
  
  
• Mooney W, Treatment of chronic sinusitis. Presentation to ESMA May 2003
  
  
• Mooney W, Salvage partial laryngectomy following radiotherapy. Presentation at Head and Neck division of Australasian General Surgical Conference. 1998, Aukland, New Zealand.
  
  
• Mooney W, Salvage partial laryngectomy: patterns of survival and morbidity. Presentation at Head and Neck division of Australasian General Surgical Conference. 1999, Melbourne, Australia.
  
  
• Mooney W, Deep neck space infections in children. Presentation at Australian society of paediatric otolaryngologists. October, 1999
  
  
• Mooney W, The end stage larynx; management of the difficult damaged airway. Presentation at the 2003 ASOHNS AGM.
  
  
• Mooney W, Mendelsohn M. Rhinoplasty technique. An interactive CD-rom which highlights difficult and new aspects of rhinoplasty.
  
  
• Mooney W, Howard D, Sandhu G, McGuinness J. Lasers in Laryngeal malignancy. Lead Article, ENT News. November 2002.
  
  
• Mooney W. Cole I. Pearson S. Salvage partial laryngectomy following radiotherapy. . Australasian Journal of Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery. October 2001.
  
  
• Mooney W. Carter P. Temporary tympanostomy tubes. Australasian Journal of Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery. July 2001.
  
  
• Mooney W. Bridger G.P. Giant cell tumour of the maxilla. ANZ Journal of surgery May 2003
  
  
• Baguley C, Mooney WWW, McGuinness AJ, Howard DJ. Recurrent laryngeal liposarcoma. Accepted for submission, Laryngocscope.
  
  
• Mooney WWW, Howard DJ. Laser treatment of glottic malignancy; survival and functional outcome. For submission
  
  
• Mooney W. Benjamin B. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of the larynx. Submitted for publication, June 2005.
  
  
• Mooney WWW, Howard DJ, Sandhu GS, Macguinness AJS. An algorithm for the management of the diffucult airway. for submission.
  
  
• Mooney W. Serpell J. Phlegmonous enteritis. Australasian radiology, 1996.