Sancta Sophia News Blog

Congratulations to Sancta Alumna, Dr Wirginia Maixner for the prestigious University award for Professional Achievement!  Dr Maixner will receive her award at the University of Sydney on Friday 28 October.

Wirginia Maixner has been described by colleagues as “the neurosurgeon’s neurosurgeon”.   She grew up on the northern beaches of Sydney and attended Sancta Sophia College. In 1986 she graduated from the School of Medicine with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.

She was the third woman accepted into the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ (RACS) four-year neurosurgery training program. At age 45, Maixner became one of Australia’s youngest heads of neurosurgery – and the first woman – at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital. Dr Maixner’s research and publications are groundbreaking but she is also renowned for her work as a surgeon worldwide.