About me

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I am a consultant anaesthetist at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand, with a main clinical interest in anaesthesia for childbirth, where I work as part of the Women’s Health team. I have been practising anaesthetics for about 25 years. My other interests are in teaching and medical writing. I am one of the course coordinators for the Waikato Hospital Part 1 FANZCA Course. I do a lot of other medical teaching, both in-house (at PROMPT, the epidural study day, the ECT study day, and a few others) and outside (I’ve been invited to speak at the University of Waikato and at Wintec).

I am a former Chair of the National Obstetric Anaesthesia (NOA) Network.

I graduated as a doctor in 1996 and trained as an anaesthetist predominantly in the Edinburgh region. I worked for three years as a consultant anaesthetist in the UK, at St. John’s Hospital in Livingston, before moving to New Zealand in 2010. I was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2002, and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in 2011. I also have a BSc (Hons) degree in Anatomy.

My first book, a lay person’s introduction to anaesthesia, entitled Anaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction, was published by Oxford University Press in May 2012. I am also one of the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia.

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