Dr Ian Baxter

Dr Ian Baxter is an Australian trained general surgeon with a special interest in Upper Gastrointestinal surgery, bariatric surgery and laparoscopic hernia surgery. He has been a fellow of The Royal Australian College of Surgeons since 1995 and has resided on the Sunshine Coast since 1998. Dr Baxter completed his medical degree at the University of Queensland in the 1980’s and went on to train at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, where he completed his surgical training.

After fellowship, he had post fellowship training in the United Kingdom at Bath and Edinburgh in upper gastrointestinal surgery. In 1997 he returned to Queensland to take the job of Director of Surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Brisbane, but has always had a longstanding goal to live on the Sunshine Coast and settled with his family in 1998. He is married with four daughters, most of whom are now adults and pursuing their own life paths.

Meet Dr Baxter