Professor Ashton is a specialist plastic surgeon offering breast reconstruction, breast reduction, breast augmentation, breast lift, abdominoplasty, rhinoplasty and facial aesthetic procedures in Melbourne.

Professor Ashton is Clinical Professor of Surgery and Honorary Professor of Anatomy at the University of Melbourne, and Chair of Plastic Surgery at Epworth Freemasons Hospital. He is the former Head of Plastic Surgery at The Royal Melbourne Hospital (2001-2016) and Royal Women’s Hospital (2000-2016), and past President of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (2017 – 2019). Professor Ashton is the Plastic Surgery Specialty Elected Counsellor to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and currently serves on the Board of Training, and Council, for the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, The New Zealand Society of Plastic Surgeons, and on the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Professor Ashton is a member of the Perioperative Expert Advisory Board for Safer Care Victoria, Department of Health and Human Services, advising the Victorian Government on health policy.

Professor Ashton is co-Editor in Chief of the Australasian Journal of Plastic Surgery and an Invited Editor for The Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal in America. Professor Ashton has published nine book chapters and over 200 articles on plastic and reconstructive surgery in peer reviewed national and international journals.