Dr Ana Braithwaite

Ana specialises in providing personalised, evidence-based care for people with gastrointestinal conditions including Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis), coeliac disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). She has a special interest in bowel cancer screening, detection and early treatment of polyps, and familial bowel cancer.

She provides endoscopy services including colonoscopy, gastroscopy and ERCP. She has expertise in bowel cancer screening, endoscopic resection of large colonic polyps, stricture dilatation, and stent placement.

Ana graduated from medical school in 2008 in Peru. Her gastroenterology training was undertaken in Spain, with subsequent interventional endoscopy fellowship years in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, and The Alfred in Melbourne.

Having moved to Hawke’s Bay in 2018, Dr Braithwaite is a consultant gastroenterologist at Hawke's Bay Hospital and has established a private practice at Royston Hospital.