Dr Mahendra Naidoo

MBChB, MPH, FRACP

Dr Mahendra Naidoo is a Medical Oncologist specialising in the treatment of Gastro-Intestinal, Colorectal and Gynaecological cancers. 

Mahendra graduated from the University of Otago in 2007 and undertook physician training at Westmead Hospital (Sydney) and North Shore Hospital.  He started his specialty training in Medical Oncology at Waikato Hospital followed by a 2 year Fellowship at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne focusing on treatment of patients with Gynaecological and Gastrointestinal cancers. During this time he also worked in the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Management clinic, counselling women  with confirmed genetic alterations (e.g. BRCA1/BRCA2) on risk reduction. 

Dr Naidoo is a Fulbright Scholar having completed a Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (2015). Following this he worked at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the NIH in Maryland, USA working on designing and reviewing cancer research grants.

Mahendra worked at Monash Health and Epworth Hospital, Melbourne from 2021-2024 focussed on GI and Gynaecological cancers including clinical trials.  He has recently returned to New Zealand where he will work at Auckland City Hospital and at Canopy Cancer Care (Epsom and Ormiston clinics).

He is also presently completing his PhD at Monash University's School of Public Health focussing on improving outcomes in Ovarian Cancer at the National Gynae-Oncology Registry (NGOR) under Professor John Zalcberg.

Dr Naidoo communicates with his patients and their families about different models of care available to them to work out the best treatment plan for their needs.

Mahendra will be consulting at our Epsom and Ormiston clinics.