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-	'''Citation:''' Mellor, Lise (2008) Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive, University of Sydney.	+	'''Citation:''' Mellor, Lise (2008) ''Owen, Earl Ronald''. Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive, University of Sydney.

	An alternate version appears in: Mellor, L. ''150 Years, 150 Firsts: The People of the Faculty of Medicine'' (2006) Sydney, Sydney University Press.		An alternate version appears in: Mellor, L. ''150 Years, 150 Firsts: The People of the Faculty of Medicine'' (2006) Sydney, Sydney University Press.

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		+	An alternate version appears in: Mellor, L. ''150 Years, 150 Firsts: The People of the Faculty of Medicine'' (2006) Sydney, Sydney University Press.

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Doakaran: Earl Ronald Owen AO moved to Owen, Earl Ronald

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	In 1968 he returned to Sydney and became Assistant Children’s Surgeon at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children and in 1971, the Senior Staff Children’s Surgeon at Prince of Wales Hospital. In 1969 he held the first ever Demonstration Hands On Workshop in the Department of Surgery at the University of Sydney for all the Australian universities surgical staff. He has repeated this workshop annually. In 1970, he replanted “a totally amputated index finger in a two-year-old child… and this was the start of replantation surgery in Australia”. Since 1970, he has been the Head of Sydney Microsurgery Service and since 1973, the Medical Director of the Microsearch Foundation of Australia, an official charity Surgical Research Institute. He remains passionate about his work and says:		In 1968 he returned to Sydney and became Assistant Children’s Surgeon at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children and in 1971, the Senior Staff Children’s Surgeon at Prince of Wales Hospital. In 1969 he held the first ever Demonstration Hands On Workshop in the Department of Surgery at the University of Sydney for all the Australian universities surgical staff. He has repeated this workshop annually. In 1970, he replanted “a totally amputated index finger in a two-year-old child… and this was the start of replantation surgery in Australia”. Since 1970, he has been the Head of Sydney Microsurgery Service and since 1973, the Medical Director of the Microsearch Foundation of Australia, an official charity Surgical Research Institute. He remains passionate about his work and says:

-	<blockquote>I love doing it. It’s meticulous and it brings me in contact with the Almighty, because I see living tissues in close-up. Looking down a microscope underneath the skin is just like looking at a coral reef, it’s so full of colour and activity. You do a vasectomy reversal, or a facial nerve graft, and it sounds like there should be blood and gore, but there’s none because we can see everything under the microscope, even the tiniest capillaries, and so avoid cutting anything that would cause bleeding. It’s in terrific colour, it’s three-dimensional and you’re sculpting some person’s new personality if you’re reconstructing. I’m the luckiest surgeon that ever lived. Surgeons usually just take things out. All I do is put things back.<ref>Interview with New Scientist, Published 30 September 2000. Volume 167, No 2258.</ref><blockquote>	+	<blockquote>I love doing it. It’s meticulous and it brings me in contact with the Almighty, because I see living tissues in close-up. Looking down a microscope underneath the skin is just like looking at a coral reef, it’s so full of colour and activity. You do a vasectomy reversal, or a facial nerve graft, and it sounds like there should be blood and gore, but there’s none because we can see everything under the microscope, even the tiniest capillaries, and so avoid cutting anything that would cause bleeding. It’s in terrific colour, it’s three-dimensional and you’re sculpting some person’s new personality if you’re reconstructing. I’m the luckiest surgeon that ever lived. Surgeons usually just take things out. All I do is put things back.<ref>Interview with New Scientist, Published 30 September 2000. Volume 167, No 2258.</ref></blockquote>

	Since the mid-1990s, Earl has been pioneering new techniques for suture-less laser surgery. As he recounts:		Since the mid-1990s, Earl has been pioneering new techniques for suture-less laser surgery. As he recounts: