Plastic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgeon
MBChB, FRACS
Mr Simon Chong is a University of Auckland graduate who completed his Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery across Auckland, Hamilton and Melbourne. He qualified FRACS in 2014, then spent 18 months as a fellow at Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney, pursuing subspecialty training in hand surgery and microsurgery.
Simon returned to New Zealand in 2015 to take up public appointments at Waikato Hospital and Thames Hospital, where he served as Head of Department, RACS Supervisor of Training for the Waikato region, and Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Board of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery. He has been in private practice since 2016.
He remains highly active in service to his specialty as an elected councillor for the New Zealand Association of Plastic Surgeons and an examiner for the RACS Clinical Examination. Simon continues to teach microsurgery for the New Zealand plastic surgery training programme and has published first-author papers in journals including Annals of Surgery, the Journal of Hand Surgery and Plastic Surgery Clinics.
Simon’s background as a public hospital plastic surgeon allows him to confidently manage a broad range of reconstructive plastic surgical and hand surgery conditions. His particular area of interest is microsurgical reconstruction, and he is working to help establish lymphoedema microsurgery in New Zealand.
Areas of Expertise:
- General plastic surgery
- Skin cancer
- Hand surgery
- Reconstructive microsurgery
- Breast surgery
- Abdominoplasty and body contouring
