Dr David Winkle completed his undergraduate medical degree at University of Queensland.  He undertook post graduate surgical training in Queensland, initially in the field of general surgery and subsequently in the field of urology, completing his Australia fellowship examination in 1988.  He then travelled to the United Kingdom as the Australasian Travelling Fellow in Urology working at the Institute of Urology in 1989 and 1990 and subsequently working as Fellow in Paediatric Urology at the Bristol Hospital for Sick Children.

Dr Winkle was appointed to the Mater Adults and Children’s Hospital in 1992.  He has an interest in paediatric and adult reconstructive surgery, voiding dysfunction and the neuropathic bladder with associated major reconstructive surgery of bladder and urethra.  Dr Winkle has also extensive experience in relation to urinary stone disease.

Dr Winkle is the immediate past President of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand.  He is also an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the Department of Surgery, University of Queensland.

Dr Winkle has published in the field of paediatric urology and urinary stone disease and has been an invited lecturer internationally in the field of paediatric urology and bladder reconstructive surgery.