Our Specialists

Stephen Persson is a specialist Gastroenterologist with more than 25 years of experience in the diagnosis and management of digestive, liver, pancreatic, and biliary disorders. Having lived in Auckland for most of his life, he completed medical school locally before undertaking advanced gastroenterology training at Auckland City Hospital, Middlemore Hospital, and Middlesex Hospital/University College Hospitals in London.

Stephen completed a postgraduate fellowship in interventional endoscopy and ERCP at one of London’s premier endoscopy units before returning to New Zealand in 1998 to take up a consultant gastroenterology position at Middlemore Hospital. He has extensive experience in both diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and continues to work across public and private practice.

He consults on the full spectrum of gastroenterological conditions, with particular interests in hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders, functional bowel disorders, motility disorders, coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and gastrointestinal malignancies.