Mr Bruce Peat

Bruce is a Plastic Surgeon and Hand Surgeon who has a Consultant Plastic Surgeon appointment at Middlemore Hospital and who consults privately at Eastcare Specialist Centre (Botany) and Handworks (Epsom). He operates privately at EastCare (local anaesthetic cases), Ormiston Hospital, Brightside Hospital and Ascot Hospital.

Born and educated in Auckland, Bruce graduated from the Auckland School of Medicine and trained as a Plastic Surgeon in New Zealand, achieving Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1989.

He trained for five years overseas undertaking further post-graduate training in Hand Surgery (USA), Microsurgery (Canada) and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery (England), including work as an Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery in the USA.

Bruce returned to Auckland in 1994 as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Middlemore Hospital, subsequently working as Deputy and then Head of the Plastic Surgery Department, where he remains as one of the senior Plastic Surgeons.

He has published significant articles in leading Plastic Surgery journals and is a member of the New Zealand Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons and President of the New Zealand Society for Surgery of the Hand.

Areas of Specialisation
Hand Surgery:
Dupuytrens
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
(Affiliated Provider for Southern Cross)
Ulnar Nerve
Nerve & Tendon Reconstruction
Congenital
Trauma
Skin Cancer:
All Skin Cancer including Melanoma
Sentinel Node Biopsy
(Affiliated Provider for Southern Cross)
Reconstructive Plastic Surgery:
Scar Revision

Qualifications
MBChB (Auckland) 1982, FRACS (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery) 1989
Past President of the NZ Soc. Surg. Hand