MB ChB 1987 Auckland; FRACP 1997

Steve has over 15 years of experience as a gastroenterologist.

He did his training in Auckland, and in London at The Middlesex Hospital where his postgraduate fellowship in interventional endoscopy and ERCP was in one of the premier endoscopy suites in Europe.

Dr Persson's areas of specialisation include:

• Therapeutic/interventional endoscopy – gastroscopy, duodenoscopy, colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, enteroscopy, ERCP
• Stent insertions to any site in gastrointestinal tract
• Argon plasma coagulation to palliate GI malignancies & treat a range of intestinal vascular anomalies, & radiation injury
• Mucosectomy to resect large polyps & early stage GI tumours
• Endoscopic haemostasis for bleeding GI lesions & ulcers
• Removal of foreign bodies
• Endoscopic dilatation of strictures
• Botox injection for motility disorders
• Single balloon enteroscopy
• ERCP
• Pancreatic & biliary endotherapy
• All areas of gastroenterology and hepatology
  • gastrointestinal malignancies (colon cancer etc)
  • inflammatory bowel disease (IBD / IBS)
  • coeliac disease
  • motility disorders
  • reflux disease
  • functional bowel disorders
  • hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders.

Gastroenterologist, Hepatologist, Interventional Endoscopist, ERCPist

Specialist Training :

• Auckland, London (The Middlesex Hospital - postgraduate fellowship in interventional endoscopy & ERCP in one of the premier endoscopy suites in Europe).
• Over 15 years experience as a Gastroenterologist

Positions Held and Memberships :

• Senior consultant gastroenterologist Middlemore Hospital
• Member of the American Gastroenterological Association
• Member of the NZ Society of Gastroenterology
• Member of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

17 March 1994

Internal Medicine