Dr Peter O’Donohue

Dr Peter O’Donohue is a Specialist General Surgeon with subspeciality training in Breast Cancer, Melanoma and Oncoplastic Surgery. Dr O’Donohue consults and operates privately at St Andrew’s Toowoomba Hospital and is a full member of Breast Surgeons of Australia and New Zealand (BreastSurgANZ). He concurrently holds a public appointment as a Consultant General Surgeon at Toowoomba Base Hospital. He actively participates in multi-disciplinary team meetings within the region and values collaborative care with local medical specialists. Dr O’Donohue was raised in Maryborough and relocated to Brisbane to complete a Bachelor of Science (Biomedicine) at the University of Queensland in 2005. He obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Griffith University in 2009 before obtaining a Masters of Clinical Epidemiology from the university of Newcastle in 2012. Dr O’Donohue was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2020. Dr O’Donohue completed advanced general surgical training in Queensland. He subsequently completed post fellowship training at Townsville University Hospital (acute general surgery) and Fiona Stanley Hospital (endocrine surgery), Perth, prior to being accepted to train as an oncoplastic breast and melanoma surgeon through BreastSurgANZ. He completed first year training at the renowned Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, and second year training at Auckland City Hospital.