MARTIN REES
MB ChB FRACS

Martin Rees is a Cosmetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon who has been in private practice since 1988. His broad ranging practice includes all cosmetic facial, abdominal and breast surgeries, liposculpture, skin cancer and hand surgery.

He is also a Senior Consultant at Middlemore Hospital Regional Centre for Reconstructive Plastic, Maxillo Facial and Hand Surgery, the Co-ordinator of the Cranio Facial Clinic team, with additional interests in Cleft lip and palate, and Microvascular surgery. He is a visiting Consultant to Auckland and Starship Hospital, with operating privileges at all of Auckland’s leading private hospitals. He has achieved impressive results with his recent introduction of facial and jaw bone distraction technology which has led to the treatment of previously impossible cases.

Mr. Rees graduated MBChB from Otago Medical School in 1972, passing his Part I exam for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1976. He then joined the Plastic Surgery Unit with the renowned plastic surgeon Sir William Manchester, obtaining his FRACS Part II in 1979.

His overseas advanced speciality training, included a three year fellowship at the eminent Frenchay Plastic Surgery Unit in Bristol England, followed by two years of additional speciality training in Australia. As a Microvascular research fellow at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Mr. Rees developed new techniques for studying the anatomy of the vascular system. His findings were published in the American Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

To complete his speciality training in Reconstructive and Cosmetic plastic surgery, Mr. Rees became Senior Registrar and Cranio Facial Fellow at the Royal Adelaide and Adelaide Children’s Hospital Cranio Facial Unit. He also gained further experience in cosmetic facial, abdominal, breast and liposuction procedures working with Consultants in their private practices, both in England and Australia. This extensive international exposure tied together all of his previous training in a broad range of cosmetic procedures, the management of complex facial fractures, tumours, and facial reconstruction for children born with facial deformities.

He returned to New Zealand in 1985 as a full-time Consultant Plastic Surgeon to initiate the establishment of the Cranio Facial Clinic and also work with the Cleft Lip and Palate and the Microvascular Free Flap Teams at Middlemore Hospital.

Even though he is intensely active with his professional responsibilities, Mr. Rees finds time to enjoy tramping, power boating, scuba diving and windsurfing with his wife and children.

• Fellow Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
• Member International Society for Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic
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• Member Australian Society of Plastic Surgery
• Member Australasian Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
• Member New Zealand Foundation for Cosmetic Plastic Surgery
• Member New Zealand Association of Plastic Surgeons
• Member Australia & New Zealand Association of Cranio Facial Surgeons
• Founding Member Cranio Facial Foundation
• Examiner in Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery for RACS
• Patron of Cleft lip & Palate and also Burns Support Groups