Dr Matthew Brick

Orthosports is led by Dr Mat Brick, who specialises in arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery of the hip, knee and shoulder. Dr Brick is fellowship trained in sports orthopaedic surgery, and a graduate of the University of Auckland School of Medicine and the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association Training Programme.

Dr Brick’s passion for sports and activity-related injury follows a successful career as a professional triathlete and later as a two-time World Champion Duathlete. He has also represented New Zealand at World Championship level in cycling. He remains actively involved in sport through racing, coaching and research. Orthosports is based at New Zealand’s premier sports facility, AUT Millennium.

Dr Brick undertook fellowship training in Pittsburgh working with Dr Freddie Fu (knee) and Dr Marc Philippon (hip), as well as in Perth with Dr Keith Holt and Dr Greg Witherow. Dr Brick is on a number of international committees relating to hip arthroscopy, including the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS) Hip and Groin Committee and Faculty for the International Society of Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA). Dr Brick has completed more than 3000 hip arthroscopies, the outcomes of which have all been prospectively followed in a very large database. This places him in a group of a handful of surgeons internationally who have the experience of thousands of hip arthroscopies as well as the extensive knowledge of outcomes, complications and revision rates.

Dr Brick is actively involved in research and teaching. He supervises fellowship training of orthopaedic surgeons from New Zealand and overseas and is involved in clinical research, lecturing and publishing on his results. You can see his published research papers here. and read an article by his most recent fellow, Dr Foo Gen Lin, about his experience working with and learning from Dr Brick here.

Dr Warren Leigh

Dr Warren Leigh (MBChB, MMedSci Distinction, Dip Sports Med, FRACS) is a fellowship-trained Orthopaedic Surgeon.  He specialises in orthopaedic sports medicine, arthroscopic surgery of the knee, shoulder and hip, total knee joint replacements and spine surgery.  Warren works at Orthosports, based at the Millenium Institute of Sport on the North Shore and operates at Southern Cross North Harbour, North Shore Surgical Centre and Auckland Surgical centre. 

Warren was born in NZ and raised in Tauranga before studying Medicine and Surgery at the University of Auckland.  He performed spine research to obtain a Master of Medical Science with distinction, undertook a diploma in Sports Medicine, and then completed his Orthopaedic Fellowship training through the NZ Orthopaedic Association to become a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. 

Dr Leigh undertook three years of post-fellowship training both in NZ and Australia to sub-specialise in knee, sports and spine surgery.  His first fellowship was with Adidas Sports medicine followed by a dedicated knee fellowship with Professor Julian Feller and Dr Tim Whitehead at Orthosports Victoria and La Trobe University, Melbourne. He served as part of the sports surgical team for high level AFL athletes. A further sports fellowship with Dr Matthew Brick at Orthosports focused on hip, knee and shoulder arthroscopy.  Warren then completed a Spine fellowship under Professors Rob Fraser and Brian Freeman at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.  As well as degenerative diseases of the spine Warren managed traumatic spine injury from as far afield as the Northern Territory.   

Dr Leigh returned home to join Orthosports in 2013 and now cares for patients of all ages with both degenerative disorders of the knee and spine, and sports injuries of the knee, shoulder and hip in athletes of all ability, from the enthusiastic to the elite.  

Dr Leigh strives to maintain and deliver excellence in his areas of expertise.  In 2015 Warren was awarded the prestigious APKASS travelling fellowship and was hosted by SLARD, the Society of Latin American Arthroscopic Sports knee surgery, and is now a member or the Magellan Society.  Dr Leigh continues to perform and publish research. 

In 2019 Dr Leigh graduated from Harvard University completing the inaugural Surgeon’s as Leaders course.  He is on the Board of Directors for the North Shore Surgical Centre, Milford.  Dr Leigh continues to perform and publish research.

Warren is married to a fellow doctor and has 3 children.  He has a keen interest in all sports and relaxes paddling his surf ski, swimming and surfing and skiing with his family. 

Dr Tim Roberts

Dr Tim Roberts is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in conditions of the hip and knee. He has a special interest in managing both non-arthritic and arthritic conditions.

Tim is a New Zealand trained orthopaedic surgeon who was born in regional New Zealand before moving to Auckland to complete his medical studies at the University of Auckland. He spent time working around the North Island before completing his specialist training in 2021. He has since had subspecialist training in the UK, completing a fellowship in knee surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead Hospitals in Bristol, and fellowships in hip and knee surgery at the Royal London Hospital. He then completed further fellowship training in hip preservation and sports surgery at Orthosports in Auckland.

Tim holds an orthopaedic consultant position at North Shore Hospital where he is active training junior doctors and medical students, as well as maintaining a private practice. In addition to conditions of the hip and knee, Tim manages general orthopaedic problems and trauma.

Surgeries Dr Tim Roberts provides include hip arthroscopy, hip preservation surgery and hip replacements, knee arthroscopy, ligament surgery and knee replacement as well as general orthopaedic procedures and trauma-related surgery.