News Highlights

In July 2020, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland Council (ACPGBI) awarded Honorary Life Membership to Professor Ian Bissett. Congratulations! This award recognises Prof. Bissett’s achievements and international reputation as a world-class...

A centre focused on surgical disease does not mean we are centre of clinicians alone. We are lucky to collaborate with a talented and diverse group of people. Tim Angeli is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow and Senior Research Fellow with the Gastrointestinal (GI)...

STaR Centre directors Prof. John Winsor, Anthony Phillips and lead Engineer Bruce Stokes have developed an innovative solution, adding to the suite of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the fight against SARS-CoV-19 (Covid-19). Their spin out company Elbaware has...

What do you do?  I am an Engineer with a passion for improving patient outcomes using digital tools. In 2020 I founded and lead the Digital Health Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research group based at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, including clinical,...

"One of the ways to improve cancer care is to ensure that no regions are lagging behind. We also need to focus on Māori to ensure there’s equity in access and care." Professor John Windsor. A debilitating and notoriously hard-to-beat disease, pancreatic cancer can go...

A team of STaR Centre researchers passionate about improving surgical care in the Pacific undertook a project to identify the barriers and opportunities to improving the delivery of safe, affordable, timely surgical care in Samoa. Our Pacific neighbours, including...

STaR Center would like to congratulate Dr Rebekah Jaung!  Dr Jaung successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "Studies on the Pathophysiology, Risk Factors and Management of Diverticular Disease," in September 2020. Dr Jaung was supervised by STaR Centre’s Ian...

STaR Centre directors Greg O’Grady, and John Windsor with our brilliant technologist Bruce Stokes, have been selected as finalists in the Velocity $100k Challenge. This Challenge is the flagship competition within Velocity, New Zealand’s leading university...

STaR centre directors Associate Professor Greg O’Grady and Professor Ian Bissett developed a novel chyme reinfusion device, which has demonstrated benefits and acceptability in a first-in-human feasibility study.

We would like to  formally announce that Associate Professor Greg O’Grady has accepted the role of Chair, Surgical Research Society of Australasia.

Ian Bissett and his team have been awarded an HRC Project Grant that will be exploring the ability of a newly developed medical device to improve the outcomes of patients with rectal cancer.

Anthony Phillips and team have been awarded an MBIE ‘Smart Ideas’ grant to improve the way people are given enteral feeding.