Dr Simon Manners

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After graduating from University of Auckland Medical School in 2005, Simon successfully completed the New Zealand Orthopaedics Associations training program and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2014.

Along with his family, he then spent two years overseas sub-specialising in adult spinal pathologies; firstly at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne and then at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Canada.

Simon has a public appointment as an Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon at Counties Manakau DHB, where he has been working since returning to New Zealand in 2017.

Simon has an interest in all aspects of spinal pathology and treatment, both non-operative and operative, performing procedures on the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.

Areas of Special Interest

Simon is a consultant Orthopaedic Spine surgeon with special interests in spinal pathology and treatment, both non-operative and operative, performing procedures on the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine
Conditions of the Cervical spine
Cervical Disc Protrusions
Cervical Radiculopathy
Thoracic Spine
Scoliosis
Conditions of the Lumbar spine
Lumbar spinal stenosis
Sciatica
Scoliosis

Hospitals Practicing at: MercyAscot, Ormiston, Southern Cross Hospitals

Specialist Experience

Simon has spent two years overseas sub-specialising in adult spinal pathologies; firstly at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne and then at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Canada.
Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon at Counties Manakau DHB since 2017.

Qualifications/Memberships

MBChB (Univeristy of Auckland), FRACS (Orth)