Mr Jim Bartley

Otolaryngologist, Counties Manukau DHB, Auckland, NZ

An initial experience working in isolated solo rural general practice among the Māori ​people, led to otolaryngologic training. After returning from London in 1991, I was an early advocate for endoscopic sinus surgery. After the award of a Royal Arch Masonic Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, I worked with David Kennedy in Philadelphia.  I then organised a number of endoscopic cadaver workshops. I was one of the first surgeons in New Zealand to repair CSF leaks endoscopically, perform pituitary surgery endoscopically and perform frontal sinus drill-out surgery.  I developed an interest in “sinus” pain patients, with minimal sinus disease, and then worked in the Pain Clinic at Auckland Hospital. I have a Pain Medicine fellowship, and I am an Australia New Zealand Faculty of Pain Medicine examiner. As a member of the National Foundation for the Deaf, I was proactive in promoting the Neonatal Deafness Screening Program as well as advising ACC on noise-induced hearing loss assessment. I have published over seventy papers in the peer-reviewed literature, fourteen book chapters and two books. I am currently studying Sleep Medicine extramurally at Sydney University.

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