Ms Karen Smith

MB ChB 1980 Auckland; FRACS 1988

 Professional Profile:

• Clinical Leader of the Auckland Regional Hand Service
• President of the New Zealand Society for Surgery of the Hand
• Fellowship Director of the Auckland Regional Hand Service Fellowship Program
• Consultant Hand Surgeon Middlemore Hospital 1996 – present
• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Middlemore Hospital 1990 -1994
• First woman in Australasia, to qualify as an Orthopaedic Surgeon

I am committed to the specialty of Hand Surgery in New Zealand in both my public and private clinical practice. I am particularly interested in the development and expansion of the Hand Service in Auckland and the teaching of young Hand surgeons.

Current Membership of Professional/other Bodies:

• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Fellow of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association
• Fellow of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association

• Hand & Wrist Surgery
• Reconstructive Tendon 
• Nerve Injuries

Consultant Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon

• 1988 completed 12 month postgraduate Fellowship in Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery (Scotland)
• 1989 completed 12 month postgraduate Fellowship in Hand Surgery (Australia)
• 1995 completed 12 month sabbatical training in Plastic Surgery of the Hand

18 December 1980

Orthopaedic Surgery