Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Koea
Jonathan Koea (Ngati mutunga, Ngati tama) is a general surgeon working at Auckland, Mercy, and North Harbour Hospitals with a subspecialist interest in liver, biliary and pancreatic conditions.
He graduated from Auckland Medical School in 1989 and worked as a house surgeon and registrar in Auckland, Hamilton and Hawkes Bay before undertaking post graduate training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.
He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Auckland and Head of the Hepato-pancreatico-biliary/Upper Gastrointestinal Unit at Auckland Hospital.
Jonathan has been seeing patients from the Warkworth/Mahurangi area as a visiting surgeon for 5 years and owns a home on Kawau Island where he is a trustee of the Kawau Emergency Response Trust.
University Qualifications.
Bachelor of Human Biology (University of Auckland) 1984.
Master of Human Biology First Class Hons (University of Auckland) 1986.
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, (University of Auckland) 1989.
Doctor of Medicine (University of Auckland) 1995.
Postgraduate Qualifications.
Follow American College of Surgeons 2006.
Graduate Hepatobiliary Fellowship, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 2000.
Graduate Surgical Oncology Fellowship, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 1999.
Fellow Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (General Surgery) 1997.
Early Management of Severe Trauma Certification 1993.
Medical Registration.
1989: General registration.
2000: Specialist registration (general surgery).
Area of Specialization
Surgery of the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts and pancreas
Laparoscopic surgery
Upper gastrointestinal surgery
General surgery and hernia repairs