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Mark Stringer 2019 thumbnailHonorary Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Mark Stringer is a Paediatric Surgeon at Wellington Hospital. He trained at Great Ormond Street and King's College Hospitals in London and was a research fellow at the Fetal Treatment Centre in San Francisco. He was Professor of Paediatric Surgery in Leeds, UK where he specialised in paediatric hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal surgery. He moved to New Zealand in 2007 and initially worked at the University of Otago in Dunedin where he was Professor of Anatomy before returning to clinical practice in Christchurch and Wellington. He has published several textbooks, 55 book chapters and more than 300 peer-reviewed articles. His clinical and research interests are gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, and neonatal surgery and long-term outcomes in paediatric surgery.

Contact details

Email Mark.Stringer@ccdhb.org.nz

Publications

Elliott, B. M., Bissett, I. P., Harmston, C., and STRATA Collaborative, including Hobson, A., Barnes, T., Tietjens, J., Stringer, M. D., Beasley, S. W., Woodfield, J., Murray, M., & Amer, M. (2023). The impact of delay and prehospital factors on acute appendicitis severity in New Zealand children: A national prospective cohort study. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 93, 1978-1986. doi: 10.1111/ans.18615

Stringer, M. D. (2022). Anatomy and development of the duodenum and small intestine. In J. A. Windsor, S. Pandanaboyana & A. A. Agarwal (Eds.), Duodenum and small bowel. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Mead, J., Kirkpatrick, J., Murdoch, J., & Stringer, M. D. (2022). Is pre-operative imaging of external angular dermoid cysts in children necessary? Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health, 58, 1420-1424. doi: 10.1111/jpc.16008

Fleischl, W., Li, R., Valsenti, G., Foster, T., & Stringer, M. D. (2022). Duodenal pancreatic heterotopia causing acute pancreatitis with gastric outlet obstruction. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 92, 3078-3079. doi: 10.1111/ans.17544

Tinawi, G. K., & Stringer, M. D. (2022). Esophageal length in children: Reference data and a novel predictive equation. Clinical Anatomy, 35, 288-295. doi: 10.1002/ca.23808

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