About Dr Ben Wagstaff | Paediatric Surgeon, Canberra
MBBS FRACS
Dr Ben Wagstaff is an Australian trained paediatric surgeon having gained fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2025.
He commenced his paediatric surgical training at the Canberra Hospital and is excited to return home to Canberra and share his varied experience from Royal Children’s Hospital, Perth Children’s Hospital and Royal Darwin Hospital.
Ben provides paediatric surgical care for a range of general surgical conditions across childhood including neonatal surgery, hernias, undescended testes, preputial (foreskin) conditions, minimally invasive surgery and endoscopy. In addition, he is happy to provide antenatal counselling for parents expecting a child with a paediatric surgical condition.
Dr Wagstaff consults privately at National Capital Paediatrics and publicly Canberra Hospital, and performs surgery at both Canberra Hospital and Calvary John James Hospital.
