MEDICAL SPECIALISTS - Key Persons


Dr Brandon Orr-Walker

Job Titles:
  • Director

Dr Carl Eagleton

Job Titles:
  • Director

Dr Carl Peters

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Specialist
Dr Carl Peters is a specialist endocrinologist and diabetologist with particular expertise in the management of diabetes in pregnancy, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, lipid and endocrine disorders. After training as an endocrinologist in New Zealand, Dr Peters moved to the UK to work as a clinician and clinical researcher at the Institute for Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University. His research work focused on remission of type 2 diabetes.

Dr Dinar Jabin

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Specialist

Dr Emad Maher

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Dr Geoff Braatvedt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Director
Associate Professor Geoff Braatvedt is an Endocrinologist, Diabetologist and Physician working at Green Lane and Auckland City Hospitals and in private practice at the Mercy Specialist Centre. He was also a Director and reporting Doctor for Auckland Bone Densitometry. He did his undergraduate training in Cape Town (MbChB 1981 with Honours), and after 5 years of post-graduate training in South Africa, moved to the UK in 1986 for specialist training ( MRCP 1987 and MD 1991). He moved to Auckland in 1992 and was appointed to a specialist post in 1992 (FRACP 1992). He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002. He has an active teaching role at the medical school, and has research interests in many aspects of Endocrinology with >65 published papers.

Dr Gillian Balbir Singh

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Renal Physician

Dr Hari Talreja

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Dr Keith Colvine

Job Titles:
  • Director

Dr Laurence Teoh

Job Titles:
  • Director

Dr Manish Khanolkar

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Specialist Physician
Dr Manish Khanolkar is a Specialist Physician in Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine working for Auckland DHB (Auckland city hospital and Greenlane clinical centre) and in private rooms at the Mercy specialist centre.

Dr Rafiq Ali

Job Titles:
  • Associate
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Dr Rajeev Rajagopal

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Dr Sandra Bourke

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Dr Simon Briggs

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • General Physician

Dr Stephanie Cox

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Specialist
You are here: Home » Our Doctors » Dr Stephanie Cox MBChB, FRACP, SOMANZ Cert Obs Med Dr Stephanie Cox is a specialist physician in Obstetric Medicine, Endocrinology/Diabetes and Internal Medicine, currently working at Auckland City Hospital and in private at Mercy Specialist Centre starting October 2022. Stephanie attended Medical School at the University of Auckland and completed dual specialist physician training in General Medicine and Endocrinology, through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, at Rotorua, Christchurch and Waikato Hospitals before returning to Auckland to complete a fellowship in Obstetric Medicine at National Women's Health. She was awarded the SOMANZ Certificate of Obstetric Medicine in 2016. Stephanie is currently Clinical Lead for the Diabetes in Pregnancy Service, Health NZ Te Toka Tumai (formerly ADHB) and is an experienced Obstetric Physician who is passionate about helping patients and their whānau plan and achieve healthy pregnancies.

Dr Stephen Child

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • General Physician With a Respiratory Medicine Interest Who Immigrated to New Zealand

Dr Zaven Panossian

Job Titles:
  • Specialist Physician
Zaven Panossian is a Specialist Physician, Diabetologist and Endocrinologist at Counties Manukau Health holding a Consultant role at Middlemore Hospital and Manukau and Botany Super Clinics in addition to a Community Diabetes Clinic in Mangere. He is joining the Medical Specialists Group in February 2016.