Dr Phaethon Karagiannis
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 87.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #7 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-physician facial plastic surgery practice consulting in Woollahra, Epping, Miranda and Wollongong, with a stated focus on facelift, neck, eyelid and nose surgery. The responsible surgeon is named with role and an AHPRA registration number published on the practice’s own site; medical and specialist registration in plastic surgery matched in the national register of practitioners, and the hospitals he names are matched in the state facility register.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. Ahpra register record for Dr Phaethon Karagiannis (MED0001666891): registration status Registered, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery — the specialty the practice advertises. [ahpra] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by the licence number the clinic itself publishes. Matched by registration number MED0001666891 in the Ahpra Register of practitioners; one direct match, registration status Registered, first registered 02/01/2012. [ahpra] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. The surgeon’s own page lists his hospital appointments: Bondi Junction Private Hospital, East Sydney Private Hospital, Double Bay Day Surgery and Chris O’Brien Lifehouse. Bondi Junction Private Hospital (PH1886) and East Sydney Private Hospital (PH0030023) are matched by name and address in the NSW register and carry the licensed class "Cosmetic surgery"; the Double Bay venue is registered as Double Bay Day Hospital (DC0030051). [site-about] [nsw-overnight] [nsw-day] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. The practice trades under the surgeon’s name: its home page, about page and contact page name no legal entity and publish no ABN or ACN. An ABN Lookup name search on "Phaethon Karagiannis" and "Dr Karagiannis" returned no entity or business name matching the practice. [site] [site-contact] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. AHPRA registration number published in the site footer; no facility or legal-entity number published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. Risks and informed financial consent discussed; no dedicated aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route document found. [site-visit] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Phaethon Karagiannis [site] [asps] | Specialist plastic and reconstructive surgeon | MED0001666891 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified yes →
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified no
- Medical weight loss: verified no
What we could not verify
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.drkaragiannis.com.au/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 1300 311 224 |
| Address | The Woollahra Clinic, Level 1, 156 Edgecliff Rd, Woollahra NSW 2025 |
| City | Sydney |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.drkaragiannis.com.au/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, menu, identifier | 30 August 2026 |
| site-visit | https://www.drkaragiannis.com.au/your-visit/ | clinic's own site | risks and informed financial consent | 30 August 2026 |
| site-contact | https://www.drkaragiannis.com.au/contact/ | clinic's own site | address of the Woollahra Clinic | 30 August 2026 |
| asps | https://plasticsurgery.org.au/surgeon/dr-phaethon-karagiannis/ | secondary | ASPS member page: specialist plastic surgeon, AHPRA ID | 30 August 2026 |
| hccc | https://www.hccc.nsw.gov.au/Decisions-Orders/register-of-prohibitio… | official register | NSW Health Care Complaints Commission prohibition-order register queried by surname, no entry | 30 August 2026 |
| ahpra | https://www.ahpra.gov.au/registration/registers-of-practitioners.aspx | official register | Register of practitioners, searched by registration number (form field name-reg = MED0001666891, then the record view): Dr Phaethon Karagiannis, Medical Practitioner, registration number MED0001666891, registration status Registered, conditions / undertakings / reprimands None, date of first registration 02/01/2012, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery | 20 September 2026 |
| nsw-overnight | https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Hospitals/privatehealth/Pages/list-ov… | official register | NSW Health licensed private health facilities, Overnight list (licence number, address, licensee, beds, licensed classes of care) | 20 September 2026 |
| nsw-day | https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Hospitals/privatehealth/Pages/list-da… | official register | NSW Health licensed private health facilities, Day Only list (licence number, address, licensee, licensed classes of care) | 20 September 2026 |
| site-about | https://www.drkaragiannis.com.au/about/ | clinic's own site | hospital appointments of the responsible surgeon | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | summary: null → null (Summary re-worded: the specialist claim is now carried by the national register of practitioners, not by a society directory.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run against ABN Lookup and the clinic’s own pages (v1.2 loop pass 1): the clinic names no legal entity, so the ladder caps this cell at brand only.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → 5 (Re-run against the state private-health-facility licence registers (v1.2 loop pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | facts: "M1 secondary finding (society directory)" → null (The specialist register is reachable and M1 is scored from it; the card fact recorded under the closed-register rule no longer applies.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → 5 (Re-run against the Ahpra Register of practitioners (v1.2 loop pass 1): placeholder retry replaced by a live lookup on the registration number.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → 5 (Re-run against the Ahpra Register of practitioners (v1.2 loop pass 1): the register answers a plain form POST to a short tool user agent, so M1 is scored from the official register.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 2 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is closed; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.