Martin Batstone was a graduate of the Queensland Maxillofacial Surgery Training Program in 2004. He then spent three years in Liverpool at the Mersey Regional Head and Neck Cancer Centre as the Head and Neck Fellow.  His current position is a Senior Staff specialist at the Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital and Director of the Maxillofacial unit.  He is a Past President of the Australian and New Zealand Head and neck cancer society and an executive committee member of the International Academy of Oral Oncology.  He has a keen interest in research with multiple past and present postgraduate students.  His clinical interests are the surgical management of head and neck cancer and microvascular reconstruction.