David Rowbotham

Gastroenterologist, Hepatologist and Endoscopist

Qualifications:

MB BS 1987 Newcastle
MRCP (UK) 1991
MD with commendation Leeds 1998
FRCP 2007
FRACP 2016

Memberships of Professional Societies

European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation
New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology

Interests

Extensive experience in all aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy (gastroscopy, colonoscopy, enteroscopy) and wireless capsule endoscopy.

Subspecialties

Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis), dyspepsia (indigestion) and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), rectal bleeding and altered bowel habit, coeliac disease, dysphagia (difficulty swallowing).

Biography

A graduate of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School, David trained in both Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the UK at international centres of excellence in London (Kings College Hospital) and Leeds. He came to New Zealand in 1999 as Specialist Gastroenterologist at Auckland Hospital and worked here for 5 years until 2004. During this time he set up the first NZ service for both push enteroscopy and wireless capsule endoscopy at Auckland City Hospital, both of which have now taken hold in the country as a whole.

He and his medical wife travelled to the UK in 2004, where he worked as Consultant Gastroenterologist at a busy general hospital in south east London. They returned in 2024 and David took up his previous position at Auckland City Hospital and was Clinical Director of the Department of Gastroenterology from 2007 to 2015). He continues to work predominantly in the public sector and is Research Lead for the Department of Gastroenterology and has been the Principal Investigator for a number of high profile clinical trials in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease). He is available to utilise his clinical and endoscopic expertise, excellent communication skills, unique patient rapport, and dry sense of humour to the good folk of Auckland.