About nick degiorgio

Mr deGiorgio undertook his medical training at the University of Bristol, England before completing his foundation years in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital, UK. He relocated to New Zealand in 2008 and has worked throughout the country as a registrar in training.

After completing his Orthopaedic training in 2019, he took up a Locum Orthopaedic Consultant role at Wellington Regional Hospital / Kenepuru hospital. During this year his focus was primarily hip and knee arthroplasty as well as general trauma as part of the on-call service. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in Middlemore Hospital in Hand Surgery. From 2021-2022, he undertook a fellowship in shoulder, knee and sports knee at the Northland Orthopaedic Centre, Whangarei. This was in tandem with a locum Consultant role at the public hospital in Whangarei.

Mr deGiorgio has, over the past years, provided Locum Consultant services to the Wairarapa Hospital and joined permanently in August 2022.

Since January 2025 he has been working out of Selina Sutherland Hospital, Masterton providing much needed care for the Wairarapa population, primarily via ACC funded care but also through private means. Difficulties with regional services within NZ require sound private facilities to enable the public sector to meet its goals. As a result, I am part of a group who aim to bring a new standalone private facility to the Wairarapa with aims of expanding the specialties offered and the overall access to care for our patients.

Fellowship

  • Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

  • New Zealand Orthopaedic Association

Professional  Membership

  • New Zealand Shoulder Society

  • New Zealand Knee Society

  • New Zealand Society for Surgery of the Hand

Scientific Publications / Presentations / Research / Additional

Honorary Lecturer - Otago University 2011-2014

NZOA ASM, AACPDM Milwaukee - Scoliosis surgery in Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy Patients: Is fusion to the sacrum necessary?

AOA Auckland - Changing nature of fragility fractures

NZOA ASM Rotorua - Anatomy of the DRUJ and sigmoid notch osteoplasty

Wellington Orthopaedic Nursing Conference Te Papa 2018,2019 - Lisfranc, Acetabular and Pelvic fractures

Match Doctor for Otago Highlanders and Rugby World Cup 2011