Rees Cameron

Dr Rees Cameron is an experienced Consultant Gastroenterologist and Advanced Endoscopist based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Dr Cameron is the senior Advanced Endoscopist at Capital and Coast District Health Board, and consults privately at Wakefield Hospital.  With specialist training in top endoscopy centres in the US and China, he has led the New Zealand development of many new endoscopic techniques, and offers the broadest range of endoscopic options available in New Zealand.

He is an instructor in Advanced Endoscopy both locally and internationally. As one of the pioneering Advanced Endoscopists in this country, he brings extensive experience to guide you in choosing the best options.

Since returning from training under Dr Kenneth Binmoeller in San Francisco in 2012, Dr Cameron has pioneered the use of cap and water-assisted (underwater) colonoscopy in New Zealand to improve patient comfort. He has cultivated unparalleled experience and expertise in New Zealand in the associated technique of underwater endoscopic mucosal resection (UEMR) for the removal of large colonic non-malignant polyps, including those where there has been a prior unsuccessful attempt.

Dr Cameron is available for a second opinion for those who have had surgery recommended for a pre-cancerous polyp.  

Dr Cameron is the regional lead in the management of patients with Barrett’s oesophagus, particularly in those with changes of dysplasia. He has expertise in modern surveillance techniques, and the resection and elimination of dysplasia and early oesophageal cancer.  

Following training by the world renown Professor Pinghong Zhou in the Zhongshan Hospital Endoscopy Unit in Shanghai, Dr Cameron offers endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for early cancers of the oesophagus, stomach, and colon/rectum, and Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) for achalasia and other disorders of the oesophagus and stomach. He also offers curative treatment for Zenker diverticulum/pharyngeal pouch and cricopharyngeal dysfunction through minimally invasive endoscopic surgery.

In 2024 he began a bariatric (weight loss) endoscopy programme at Wakefield Hospital to provide an option for those who do not want irreversible , invasive surgery to treat obesity.

Dr Cameron is an affiliated provider for Southern Cross Health Society.