Assoc Prof Jonathan Koea

Biography

I trained in General Surgery in New Zealand and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1998. Following this I undertook postgraduate training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York specialising in complex surgery for cancers of the liver and gastrointestinal tract. We returned to New Zealand in 2000 and settled on the North Shore. I hold a consultant surgical appointment at Auckland Hospital and run outreach clinics at North Shore Hospital, Warkworth and Whangarei Hospital. The most enjoyable part of my professional life is meeting and caring for patients. I am a North Shore resident and I believe that specialists should be part of the communities that they serve. I run outreach clinics at North Shore Hospital, Whangarei Hospital and Kowhai Surgery in Warkworth in order to be accessible to patients in North Auckland. Current membership of professional/other bodies Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Society of American Gastroenterological and Endoscopic Surgeons American Society of Clinical Oncology American Association for Clinical Cancer Research American Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Association

Research Interest

Surgical management (both laparoscopic and open) of benign and malignant conditions of the liver, bile ducts, gallbladder, pancreas and upper gastrointestinal tract Ablation and non-operative management of primary and secondary tumours of the liver General surgical conditions of the gastrointestinal tract