Dr Ana Braithwaite

Ana specialises in providing personalised, evidence-based care for people with gastrointestinal conditions including Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohns disease, ulcerative colitis), coeliac disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). She has a special interest in bowel cancer screening, detection and early treatment of polyps, and familial bowel cancer.
She provides endoscopy services including colonoscopy, gastroscopy and ERCP. She has expertise in bowel cancer screening, endoscopic resection of large colonic polyps, stricture dilatation, and stent placement.
Ana graduated from medical school in 2008 in Peru. Her gastroenterology training was undertaken in Spain, with subsequent interventional endoscopy fellowship years in Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, the Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital, and The Alfred in Melbourne.
Having moved to Hawkes Bay in 2018, Dr Braithwaite is a consultant gastroenterologist at Hawkes Bay Hospital and has established a private practice at Royston Hospital.

AREAS OF SPECIALISATION

• Diagnostic and Therapeutic Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy
• Reflux disease-wireless PH study (BRAVO)
• Bowel Cancer Screening
• Expertise in completing previously failed colonoscopies
• Interest in Familial and Hereditary bowel cancer syndromes
• Crohns Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
• Coeliac Disease
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Qualifications/Memberships
MD, FRACP, ACG, ASGE, ESGE
MD, Gastroenterology consultant, Interventional Endoscopist
Clinical Lead of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Hawke's Bay DHB
Clinical Lead Gastroenterology Department Hawke's Bay DHB

Specialist training and society memberships

• Fellow of the Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).
• Advanced Senior Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Fellowship at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
• Interventional Endoscopy Fellowship at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia.
• Interventional Endoscopy Fellowship at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
• Member of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG).
• Member of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).
• Member of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE).