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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 378 6205
Email
justin.roake@cdhb.health.nz
Position
Emeritus Professor
Department
Department of Surgery and Critical Care (Christchurch)
Qualifications
MBChB (Otago) DPhil (Oxon) FRCS FRACS
Research summary
Vascular and transplant surgery

Research

Justin Roake is a specialist in vascular surgery and transplantation surgery.

He is Clinical Director of the Department of Vascular Endovascular and Transplant Surgery at Christchurch Hospital. He has a DPhil in transplantation immunology focused upon the biology of dendritic cells.

Professor Roake is co-convenor of the Trainee Intern year student attachment to surgery. He is Specialty Editor (Transplantation) of ANZ Journal of Surgery.

Research interests

  • The biology of vascular disease
  • Clinical prioritisation for surgery
  • Medical education
  • Modelling of clinical assessments of risks and benefits in surgery
  • Publications

    Kindon, A. J., Moltchanova, E., Lyons, O. T., Kingham, S., Roake, J. A., Crengle, S., & Hobbs, M. (2026). Socio-economic determinants of abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture incidence: A nationwide geospatial study. European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, 71(6), 1012-1022. doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2025.09.051 Journal - Research Article

    Raajasekar, S., Roake, J., Cameron, V., Benson, R., Pilbrow, A., & Gieseg, S. (2025). Plasma total neopterin and neopterin levels are significantly elevated in stroke patients before carotid endarterectomy surgery. Pteridines, 36(1), 20250055. doi: 10.1515/pteridines-2025-0055 Journal - Research Article

    Lim, E. T. A., Jardine, D., Frampton, C., Pemberton, C. J., Troughton, R., Roake, J., & Khanafer, A. (2025). Sympathetic nerve activity following acute type B aortic dissection: A pilot study. Journal of Vascular Research, 62(2), 88-95. doi: 10.1159/000543340 Journal - Research Article

    Kindon, A., McCombie, A., Frampton, C., Khashram, M., Clarke, G., & Roake, J. (2023). Early relative growth rate of abdominal aortic aneurysms and future risk of rupture or repair. European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, 66(6), 797-803. doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2023.08.006 Journal - Research Article

    Healy, J., Searle, E., Panta, R. K., Chernoglazov, A., Roake, J., Butler, P., Butler, A., Gieseg, S. P., and the MARS Collaboration, including Chapagain, K. M., Clark, J. A., Colgan, F., Crighton, J. S., Damet, J., Dapamede, T., Moghiseh, M., & Schleich, N. (2023). Ex-vivo atherosclerotic plaque characterization using spectral photon-counting CT: Comparing material quantification to histology. Atherosclerosis, 378, 117160. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2023.06.007 Journal - Research Article

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