Mr Simon Young

MB ChB 2001 Otago; FRACS (Orth) 2011

Simon Young is an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in surgery of the knee. He sees both private and ACC patients at Axis Sports Medicine on the North Shore.

Simon is a Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics at Auckland University, and has a Consultant public appointment at North Shore Hospital. He maintains a keen research interest, currently completing his doctoral thesis on prevention of infection in knee surgery.  He is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on orthopaedic surgery.

Read more about Simon's achievements here

• Knee surgery
• Sports surgery

Trauma, Shoulder Surgery, Knee Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgeon

After completing orthopaedic surgical training in New Zealand Simon went on to work in the USA, completing a Sports Medicine fellowship at Stanford University and an Arthroplasty fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. While at Stanford he served as Team Physician at the Stanford Sports Medicine Clinic, providing orthopaedic care to the San Francisco 49ers NFL team and Stanford College Football team and was an attending physician at the Rose Bowl. 

6 December 2002

Orthopaedic Surgery