Dr Gregory Brick - BA, MBChB

As a teenager growing up in Te Puke, picking hay on a Waikato farm over the summer, Greg agonised over choosing between a future in medicine or in engineering. In the end he attained both, as orthopaedics is the engineering aspect of medicine.

A 1977 graduate of The University of Auckland School of Medicine, Greg completed the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association training programme in 1984 before moving to the United States.

Greg is now a Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was voted one of Boston's best surgeons in 2002 by Boston magazine.

Greg's research interests include the fate of allografts in hip and knee replacements.

Greg is married to Dunedin-born Jane, with whom he has five children. The family returns to New Zealand annually, and spends time at their holiday home in Wanaka.

In July 2004, Greg and his family established The Brick Family Scholarship to provide full-fee-paying scholarships for undergraduates in the School of Medicine. Three other family members are involved with the gift, two of whom are also alumni.