Professor Frank Antony Frizelle

Colorectal Surgeon

Qualifications:   MBChB, MMedSc, FRACS, FACS
Year of Registration: 1986

Consults at Specialists at Nine, Level 1, 9 Caledonian Road
For appointments please call 03 968 3140

Post Graduate Training/Experience

• RACS training southern scheme (Dunedin)
• Clinical fellow Mayo Clinic USA
• Laparoscopic fellow Ninewells Dundee UK

Special clinical interests:

• Colorectal cancer
• Recurrent rectal cancer
• Diverticular Disease
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Anal diseases
• Colonoscopy

Professional profile:

• Professor of Colorectal surgery University of Otago Christchurch
• Head of University department of surgery
• Editor in Chief New Zealand Medical Journal

Current memberships of professional/ other bodies:

• Chairman Section of colon rectal surgery RACS
• Examiner in General surgery RACS
• Executive Member Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) (Co-opted member)
• Member research sub-committee of CSSANZ
• Member Co-joint CSSANZ RACS Training Board in colon and rectal surgery
• Member Colorectal Foundation of Australia and New Zealand
• Executive Member of CSSANZ/RACS CME/ASM meeting committee
• Member American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons - Executive Member of Quality Committee
• International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons - Regional Secretary Australia/New Zealand
• New Zealand Medical Association
• Member of Mayo Clinic Alumni Association
• Member Society American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
• Member of Society of Surgical Oncology (US)
• Member Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (US).
• The Priestley Society (US)
• The Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group
• The Surgical Research Society of Australasia
• World Federation of Surgical Oncology
• International Committee of Medical Editors (ICME/ Vancouver group)
• World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)