Professor Justin Roake


MBChB, DPhil, FRACS(Vasc), FRCS

Professor Justin Roake

Professor Justin Roake

Professor Justin Roake is a specialist vascular surgeon with the Christchurch Vascular Group. Born in Christchurch and educated in New Zealand, Professor Roake is a graduate of University of Otago (MBChB 1981) and Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1989) and Royal College of Surgeons of England (1996). He has a doctorate in immunology from Oxford University (DPhil Oxon 1993).

Professor Roake undertook specialist training in vascular surgery in Oxford between 1989 and 1997. He was appointed as Professor of Surgery and Head of Department, Christchurch School of Medicine, in 1997 and is a renal transplant and vascular surgeon at Christchurch Hospital. He is the Clinical Director of the Department of Vascular, Endovascular & Renal Transplantation Surgery.

Professor Roake has research interests in the biology of vascular disease, clinical prioritisation for surgery, medical education and modelling of clinical assessments of risks and benefits in vascular surgery.

Professor Roake doesn’t own a Morgan.