Charles Teo

Charles Teo is a high profile but controversial Australian neurosurgeon.

Neurosurgery
Teo trained in Sydney, but worked for a decade in the United States, where he still teaches. His sub-speciality is pediatric neurosurgery. He is the director of the Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Prince of Wales Hospital. .

Teo has received much media attention as something of a miracle worker, but members of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, from which Teo resigned in 2003, have described him as falsely presenting himself as a pioneer of new techniques rather than as a competent practitioner of standard surgical techniques. Neurosurgeons have claimed that he offers false hope by operating when there is little chance of a successful outcome. Teo argues that delaying the death even of terminally ill patients with an incurable disease is worthwhile.

Personal life
Teo went to high school at The Scots College, and graduated with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of New South Wales.

He is married to Genevieve Teo and the couple has four daughters.

Notable patients

 * Aaron McMillan (Deceased 2007)
 * Stan Zemanek (Deceased 2007)

Personal experiences

 * Eight-year-old Roslyn Kratzmann
 * David Stevens (now deceased)
 * Lynette Waugh, Australian Cricketer Steve Waugh's wife