Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Adam was appointed to a joint clinical and academic position as an adult and paediatric liver transplant and HPB surgeon at Auckland City Hospital and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at The University of Auckland in 2008.
He also works in private as a General, Laparoscopic and HPB surgeon. In both public and private practice he works closely with colleagues in other surgical specialities, gastroenterology, radiology, oncology and other medical fields.
Adam is committed to continuous improvement and actively seeks out ways in which he can continue to develop his skill base and grow his knowledge. Adam’s contribution and dedication to his profession has been significant to date.
Outside of Surgery
Adam enjoys competitive sailing, kite-surfing and has completed more than ten half marathons.
He currently lives with his partner in Auckland and is the father of two young daughters.
Medical Registration
2009
Post-fellowship Training in Abdominal Transplantation
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
2006
Fellowship in General Surgery
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)
2006
Vocational Registration, General Surgery
New Zealand Medical Council
2004
General Registration
Norfolk Island Medical Administration
2003
General Registration
New South Wales Medical Council
2001
General Registration
Great Britain General Medical Council (#4406985)
1997
General Registration
New Zealand Medical Council (#22070)
Medical Education
2008
Post-fellowship Training in Abdominal Transplantation
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
2005
General Surgery
Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
2004
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Surgery
University of Auckland (Thesis entitled “CD40-CD154 Expression and Blockade in Liver Transplantation”)
1996
Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)
University of Auckland
1993
Bachelor of Human Biology (BHB)
University of Auckland (Senior Scholar (A+ average))
Awards
2003
The Louis Barnett Prize
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting of New Zealand Fellows, Wellington, New Zealand
2003
Young Investigator Award
Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), 21st annual scientific meeting, Canberra, Australia
2001
Young Investigator Award
Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), 19th annual scientific meeting, Canberra, Australia
2000
Tyco Young Investigators Award
Surgical Research Society of Australasia annual scientific meeting, Adelaide, South Australia
1996
Sir Carrick Robertson Prize in Surgery
University of Auckland
1996
Medlab Hamilton Prize for general excellence in clinical medicine
University of Auckland
1994
Ciba-Geigy prize in Applied Pharmacology and Therapeutics
University of Auckland
1994
Senior Scholarship in Medicine and Human Biology
University of Auckland
1993
Anatomy Prize BHB II and III
University of Auckland
1993
Distinctions in Molecular Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacology
University of Auckland
Scholarships & Grants
2006
Travelling Fellowship
($10,000 one-off grant)
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
2001
The Role of CD154 in Liver Allograft Rejection
($57,150 for one year)
Health Research Council Career Development Award (HRC 01/025)
2001
Immunological Tolerance in Liver Transplant Recipients
($55,000 for one year)
Glaxo Wellcome/New Zealand Gastroenterology Society Research Fellowship
2001
Immunological Tolerance in Liver Transplant Recipients
($110,797 for one year)
Health Research Council Project Grant (01/229)
2001
7th Basic Science Symposium of the Transplantation Society, Thun, Switzerland
($2,000)
Auckland Medical Research Foundation Travel Grant (82101)
2001
The Role of CD40 Ligand in Liver Transplant Rejection
($1,800 to attend the 7th Basic Science Symposium of the Transplantation Society, Thun, Switzerland)
University of Auckland Graduate Research Fund (3600669/9307)
2001
Tolerance in Transplantation
($50,000 for one year)
Auckland Medical Research Foundation Grant in Aid (81396)
1999
The Role of CD40 Ligand in Human Liver and Kidney Allograft Rejection
($54,581 per annum for two years)
The Health Research Council of New Zealand Limited Budget Grant (99/515)
1999
The Role of CD40 Ligand in Human Liver and Kidney Allograft Rejection
($8,500 for one year)
The University of Auckland Research Fund
Positions
02/03/2009 – Current
Consultant surgeon in Liver Transplantation and Hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) Surgery.
New Zealand Liver Transplant Unit and Department of General Surgery.
Auckland City Hospital, Park Road, Grafton, Auckland.
Senior Lecturer in Surgery
Department of Surgery, University of Auckland
08/02/2009 – 14/02/2009
Visiting Surgeon
Division of Transplantation Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Contact Professor Charles Rosen.
08/12/2008 – 19/12/2008
Visiting Surgeon
Department of Surgery, Centre Hepato-Biliare, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France. Contact Professor Daniel Azoulay.
24/11/2008 – 05/12/2008
Visiting Surgeon
Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium. Contact Professor Baki Topal.
01/11/2006 – 21/11/2008
Senior Surgical Fellow
Liver Transplantation and Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery, Institute of Liver Studies, Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London. Under the supervision of Professor Nigel Heaton.
12/12/2005 – 24/10/2006
Surgical Fellow
The New Zealand Liver Transplant Unit and Auckland Renal Transplant Group, Auckland City Hospital. Under the supervision of Professor Steven Munn, Professor John McCall, Mr Peter Johnson, Mr William Hecker and Mr Motohiko Yasutomi.
13/06/2005 – 11/12/2005
Senior Surgical Registrar in Vascular and General Surgery
Drs Ian Civil and Murray MacCormack, Department of Vascular Surgery, Auckland City Hospital.
01/12/2005 – 12/06/2005
Senior Surgical Registrar in Hepatobiliary and Upper-Gastrointestinal Surgery
Associate Professor John McCall, Professor John Windsor, Associate Professor Jonathan Koea, Mr Peter Christie, Department of Surgery, Auckland City Hospital.
13/06/2004 – 01/12/2005
Senior Surgical Registrar in Upper-Gastrointestinal, Breast and General Surgery
Drs Garth Poole and Mathew Clark, Department of Surgery, Middlemore Hospital, South Auckland Health.
06/12/2003 – 13/06/2004
Senior Surgical Registrar in Colorectal and General Surgery
Drs Andrew Connolly and Wilbur Farmilo, Department of Surgery, Middlemore Hospital, South Auckland Health.
09/06/2003 – 06/12/2003
Senior Surgical Registrar in General Surgery
Drs Stephen Dunn and Mark Sanders, Department of Surgery, Whangarei Base Hospital, Northland Health.
09/12/2002 – 06/06/2003
Senior Surgical Registrar in General Surgery
Drs Govind Krishna, Peter Milsom and William Sugrue, Department of Surgery, Whangarei Base Hospital, Northland Health.
10/06/2002 – 08/12/2002
Surgical Registrar in General Surgery
Drs Andrew Connolly and Wilbur Farmilo, Department of Surgery, Middlemore Hospital, South Auckland Health.
10/12/2001 – 09/06/2002
Surgical Registrar in General Surgery
Professor Iain Martin and Mr Garth Poole, Department of General Surgery, Middlemore Hospital, South Auckland Health.
01/07/2001 – 09/12/2001
Registrar
Department of Emergency Medicine, North Shore Hospital. Dr Garry Clearwater.
01/12/2000 – 31/11/2001
Research Fellow
Division of Surgery, University of Auckland. Under the supervision of Associate Professor John McCall, Professor Steven Munn and Dr Rohan Ameratunga.
30/11/1998 – 01/12/2000
Lecturer in Surgery and Research Fellow
Division of Surgery, University of Auckland. Responsible to Professor Bryan Parry.
31/08/1998 – 29/11/1998
House Officer
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Auckland Hospital.
25/05/1998 – 30/08/1998
House Officer Rotation
Intensive Care Medicine, North Shore Hospital.
23/02/1998 – 24/05/1998
House Officer Rotation
General Surgery, Auckland Hospital.
24/11/1997 – 22/02/1998
House Officer Rotation
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Middlemore Hospital.
25/11/1996 – 25/05/1997
House Officer Rotation
Respiratory Medicine and ENT, Greenlane Hospital.
26/05/1997 – 23/11/1997
House Officer Rotation
General Medicine and General Surgery, Auckland City Hospital.
Teaching and Medical Education
2013
Director
Procedural Skills course (4th year)
2013
Tutor
Clinical Skills Teaching (3rd year)
2009 – 2013
Director Undergraduate Surgical Education
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
2007 – 2008
Surgical Tutor
London School of Medicine at Kings College Hospital, London
2006
Course Tutor
ASSET course, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, June 2006, Auckland, New Zealand
2006
Lecturer
Nutrition Seminar (3rd year)
2006
Founding Director
Procedural Skills Course (6th year)
2005
Course Tutor
Transplantation Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Auckland
2004
Lecturer
Abdominal Pain in Women Seminar (5th year)
2002
Tutor
Critically Appraised Topics (4th year)
2002
Examiner
Objective Structured Clinical Examination, OSCE (4th year)
2002
Clinical Tutor
Bedside Tutorials (4th and 6th year)
2002
Co-ordinator/Examiner
Final Clinical Examination (5th year)
2001 – 2002
Course Tutor
Surgical Assistant Course, Surgical Skills Training Centre, Greenlane Hospital, Auckland
2001
Honorary Lecturer in Surgery
Division of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Auckland
1999 – 2000
Lecturer in Surgery
Division of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Auckland.
1999 – 2012
Preceptor
Elective Student Options (6th year)
1998
Tutor
Surgical Tutorials (4th Year)
1998
Supervisor
Anatomy Options Students (2nd year)
1999
Supervisor
Summer studentship research projects (2nd and 3rd years)
Publications and Presentations
Adam has over 60 published journal articles, and is a regular speaker at medical conferences around the world.
As an author, he has contributed chapters to 3 publications. Adam has also made presentations at over 150 scientific meetings.
Read the full list of Adam’s publications or presentations.
Management Courses
4 – 5 March 2008
Leadership and Management Development Programme
Department of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education. King’s College Hospital, London.
Sporting Achievements
Sailing
26 – 28 December 2016
CQS – Sir Michael Hintz (7th place)
Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
25 & 26 November 2016
CQS – Sir Michael Hintz (1st place)
Round White Island Race
2009 – 2015
Championship Series, First in Division One, Four Years, Bow
Stewart 34, Pioneer, Bill Miller/Mark Bond
2012
Pioneer, Mark Bond, Stewart 34
Coastal Classic
2012
F18 New Zealand Nationals, Helm
2012
Le Avanti, Farr 1020, Richard Harman
Shorthanded Sailing Association of New Zealand (SSANZ), B & G Simrad Triple Series
2010 – 2011
La Avanti, Richard Harman, Farr 1020
Coastal Classic
1999
Honeywell, John Graham, Young 11
Coastal Classic
1995
Great Britain National Team – Local Hero XII G Howison/Gavin Brady, Mid-bow
Southern Cross Cup/Sydney to Hobart
1992 – 1993
Championship Series, 2nd and 3rd respectively, Port trimmer
Stewart 34, Pioneer, Bill Miller/Mark Bond
1992
New Zealand Yachting Match Racing Trials, Bow
1988 – 1989
Sagitta, Simon Willis, Spencer 36
Coastal Classic
1989
Northland Yachting Association, 1st senior
1988 – 1989
Captain of Kerikeri High School Sailing Team
Cruising
Sailed extensively around North Island of New Zealand, including circumnavigation of North Island.
Running
More than ten half-marathons.