KAPITI DAY HOSPITAL - Key Persons
Specialist interests: Abdominal pain and GI symptoms: Assessment Endoscopy: Colonoscopy; colon cancer screening Endoscopy: Gastroscopy Inguinal hernia repair: Laparoscopic Laparoscopic surgery for: Hernia; Gallstones; Hiatus hernia; Colon cancer; Diverticular disease; Crohn's disease Assessment of anorectal disorders including physiological studies: Stapled haemorrhoidectomy; Pilonidal sinus surgery John trained in general surgery in New Zealand. He then undertook post-fellowship training in Gastroenterological surgery for 5 years in the UK. The upper GI surgery was at hospitals in Bristol and Cambridge. The Colorectal surgery was at St Mark's Hospital, London. John has developed minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery over his 15 years in specialist practice, including extensive experience in laparoscopic hernia repair and laparoscopic bowel surgery. John is also consultant surgeon at Hutt Hospital.
MSc MBChB FRANZCO Kenneth consults from Thorndon Eye Clinic and Boulcott Clinic and is also a consultant at Wellington Hospital. He has completed a fellowship in oculoplastic and orbital surgery at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the United Kingdom as well as a clinical observership in oculoplastic surgery and aesthetic medicine at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. Kenneth is able to conduct his consultations in Cantonese and Mandarin if required. Kenneth is a Southern Cross and NIB Affiliated provider.
Job Titles:
- Surgeon
- Fellow of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists
Mr Reece Hall is a cataract and cornea transplant surgeon with over 20 years experience in cataract surgery and over 15 years experience in Laser Eye Surgery. Mr Reece Hall graduated from Otago University and completed specialist ophthalmology training in Wellington. He completed two years of overseas fellowship training in cataract , refractive and cornea surgery with Professor Graham Barrett in Perth and cornea and refractive surgery with Professor Donald Tan in Singapore and holds a postgraduate Masters degree in refractive surgery (University of Sydney). You are in safe hands with Mr Reece Hall.
Mr Reece Hall is a fellow of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists and a member of both the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons and American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.
He is a Southern Cross Affiliated provider.
Outside of work Reece enjoys spending time with his family, travelling and fishing.
BSc MBChB FRANZCO After growing up in Wellington, Neil attended the University of Otago for undergraduate medical training. While on elective in Jamaica he developed an interest in ophthalmology. Neil completed his internship and general ophthalmology training at Wellington and Dunedin hospitals, followed by two years of fellowship training in retinal diseases and vitreoretinal surgery. Neil continues to make regular trips to Jamaica to help provide outpatient ophthalmic services and perform small incision cataract surgery and pterygium surgery. Neil is a Southern Cross and NIB Affiliated provider.
MBChB (Otago), FRACS (Vascular), DDU (Vascular) We welcome Richard Evans to our specialist team at Kapiti Day Hospital. Richard is a vascular, endovascular and transplant surgeon and at Kapiti is available for consultations, varicose vein treatments and vascular ultrasound scans. For appointments go to: revascular.co.nz, complete our online form or email: info@revascular.co.nz or call 0800 45 445 88, no referral needed.
MB ChB (Otago) FRANZCO Cataract and Vitreoretinal Surgeon. Steve trained in Dunedin (both medicine and ophthalmology) before cataract and retina fellowships in the UK. He specialises in cataract and refractive lens surgery, vitrectomy surgery and intravitreal treatments, as well as pterygium surgery. Steve consults from Thorndon Eye Clinic, Boulcott Clinic and Kapiti Specialist Centre. Steve is a Southern Cross and NIB Affiliated provider.