Isaac graduated from Auckland Medical School in 1994 and subsequently completed advanced training in general surgery with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2004. He undertook further subspecialisation training in Breast and Endocrine surgery in Sydney in 2005. In 2006 Isaac was awarded the Genesis Oncology Fellowship to train in advanced endocrine surgery at Hôpital Huriez (CHRU) in Lille, France. The following year he was appointed as the International Fellow in Surgical Oncology at the prestigious Royal Marsden Hospital in London, where he gained further subspecialist experience in melanoma, skin and soft tissue tumours.
Isaac returned to Auckland in 2007 to take up an appointment at Auckland City Hospital as a general and oncology surgeon where his practice includes the surgical management of melanoma, breast cancer, thyroid, endocrine and soft tissue tumours.
Isaac was Supervisor of Training for General Surgery at Auckland City Hospital from 2010-2019 and has been an Examiner in General Surgery for The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons since 2019.
In private practice Isaac consults from 1 Jervois Road in Ponsonby, Mercy Breast Clinic in Epsom and the Skin Institute.
He has a particular interest in seeing patients requiring treatment in the following areas:
- breast surgery
- melanoma surgery, including sentinel node and node dissections
- endocrine surgery including thyroid surgery, parathyroid surgery, laparoscopic adrenalectomy
- skin cancer surgery
- abdominal sarcoma surgery.
