Top Alumni Honour For Bermuda Specialist
New Zealander Dr. Greg Brick, the internationally renowned orthopaedic surgeon who regularly travels to Bermuda to perform complex reconstructive surgery, is one of six recipients of the University of Auckland’s Distinguished Alumni Awards for 2011.
The awards, announced today [Feb. 14], are bestowed on graduates who have made outstanding contributions to their professions, their communities and the nation.
Dr. Brick is senior orthopaedic surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and assistant clinical professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has been cited in “Top Doctors in America” and “America’s Top Doctors” for many years and has been listed in “Boston Magazine” as one of the city’s best orthopaedic surgeons.
Dr. Brick was educated at Te Puke High School and attended The University of Auckland Medical School. After graduating from the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association Training Programme in 1984, he completed fellowship training in joint replacement surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and then a further year’s training in spine surgery at Vanderbilt University. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1985.
Since 1987 he has been a consulting surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a teacher in the Harvard Orthopaedic Training Program. His areas of interest include revision hip and knee replacement surgery as well as reconstructive spine surgery. He has been registered as an orthopaedic specialist in Bermuda for a number of years and travels here regularly.
The alumni award will be presented at the Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner in Auckland on March 4 .
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