Dr Colin Barber

Senior Paediatric Otolaryngologist, Starship Child Health, Auckland, NZ

Colin Barber is a paediatric otolaryngologist who trained in New Zealand and gained his paediatric fellowship at Children’s National Hospital, Washington DC, USA. 

Since the opening of Starship Children’s Hospital (in 1991) and prior to that at Princess Mary Hospital, he has been a consultant paediatric otolaryngologist specialising in the management of airway disease in infants and children. He has extensive experience in airway reconstruction, foreign body removal, the ENT management of children with syndromes, and paediatric head and neck surgery. Since 2003 he has been an honorary senior lecturer in the department of Paediatrics at the University of Auckland. He has been awarded the Dennis Pickup award for excellence in teaching and contributes to the teaching of speech-language therapists, audiologists and medical students.

​In 2016 he received the Presidential Citation for outstanding service to ORL-HNS for the development of an internationally recognised paediatric otolaryngology service in Auckland. And in 2018 gave the James Hardie Neil Oration at the New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Annual General & Scientific Meeting.