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Dr. Jenny Visser graduated from medical school (University of Otago, New Zealand) in 1986. She is vocationally trained in General Practice and is a Fellow of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.  Following a special interest in travel medicine she is now Lead for Travel Medicine Postgraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Uni...

Sarah Dalton is executive director of Toi Mata Hauora, also known as, the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) – the union for senior doctors and dentists. Her work story is of a secondary school teacher (history/English/assistant principal) who stumbled into union work and decided to stick around.  In this episode, we discuss her move from being a teacher and being a union advocate...

Dr Michelle Chen is a current GP and rural & remote medicine trainee working on the Gold Coast, Australia. She was an aspiring paediatric surgeon, working all over Australia and New Zealand. Personal tragedy struck in 2019 when she became a carer to her GP husband who was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. She is an advocate for young-onset bowel cancer, raising awareness through Bowel Canc...

Dr. Alby Hailes is a psychiatry registrar, baker and creative. Currently working in Whangārei, he has an interest in mental health with a particular focus on the effects of diet and exercise on the psyche. Alby is the creator of trEAT right, an holistic food and wellbeing website, where his food philosophy shies away from fad diets and food restriction, instead promoting moderation and a sense of...

Dr. Art Nahill is originally from the Boston area and attended Yale University and after three years as a high-school science teacher obtained his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Harvard-affiliated Mount Auburn Hospital and spent the next twelve years practicing and teaching in general medicine in the Boston...

Dr Ari Chuang (he/him) is a non-training Orthopaedic registrar who recently started Pride in Health which is geared towards educating health professionals in all areas of LGBTQI health. He is passionate about initiating conversations, accelerating change and facilitating an inclusive healthcare model for disadvantaged groups like our LGBTQIA+ patients. He recently welcome a son with his wife and t...

Dr. Chris Jackson is a Medical Oncologist with special interest in gastrointestinal cancers, melanoma and urological cancers. Chris holds a national role in the research and management of colorectal cancer. Chris graduated from the University of Otago and trained in New Zealand before working at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London – the world’s first specialist cancer hospital. He is currently th...

Dr. Marissa Kelaher is a GP in Nelson who has a special interest in the role of nutrition and lifestyle in health, and in using this to change the way we practice medicine. She conducts lifestyle medicine clinics alongside her GP work, and also runs a social media account @thesimplicitydoctor, as well as writing lifestyle medicine articles for local magazines. She has two young boys, loves travel,...

Dr. Hong Sheng Chiong is a senior ophthalmology registrar, who trained in Ireland and Penang (Malaysia). In 2014, he founded oDocs Eye Care and released the world's first open-source smartphone retinal imaging adapter. oDocs Eye Care is an award-winning social enterprise and independent eye care research lab based in New Zealand, with a mission to end preventable blindness by increasing acces...

Dr. Emma Lawrey trained at the University of Auckland having grown up the child of NZ ex-pats living in Canada. She is now an emergency physician at Auckland hospital but has had varying subspecialty interests and accumulated postgraduate qualifications along the way.  She was the first education fellow at Middlemore hospital, has done extended study in clinical toxicology and now works in disaste...

Dr. Bex Canner (they/them) is a queer non-binary transgender GP who works in a Youth One Stop Shop clinic in Whanganui-a-Tara.  Originally from the US, Bex went to medical school in Canada and completed residency training in Family Medicine with a rural focus in the US. After working for many years as a rural GP, they came to Aotearoa to work as a GP and teach medical students in rural South Otago...

Associate Professor Collin Tukuitonga is the inaugural Associate Dean (Pacific) and Associate Professor of Public Health at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences in the University of Auckland, and he is a public health medicine specialist. Currently, he is on the Ministry of Health’s Technical Advisory Group for COVID-19 and is assisting the Auckland Regional Public Health Service to manage t...

Dr. Hannah Noel is a general paediatrician at Waitematā DHB, mother to 7 year old Elise and a director and part-owner of Crave café in Morningside. She grew up in Dunedin, was trained at Otago University, and has been Auckland-based since 2007. In November 2008, her life took an unexpected turn when her husband Jared (also a doctor) was diagnosed with metastatic bowel cancer; he died in October 20...

Dr. Clare Mallinson is a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in scoliosis correction surgery. She is also Director of Medical Education and deputy medical director at Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust in London - an organisation with over 100 junior doctors in all specialities which creates a rich learning environment. She has been chair of the National Association of Clinical Tutors and no...

Dr. Kate Mitchell is a newly trained part time GP who works in a stunning beach side town North of Wellington. She balances being a professional patient and a doctor – living life with an undiagnosed multi-system autoimmune disease. Her whānau and her people make life possible. In this episode, we discuss navigating medicine with a chronic illness, a marked deterioration of her health requiring mu...

David Farrier is a journalist and documentary maker, who has fashioned a career out of stranger stories and unpacking conspiracies. He co-directed and featured in the internationally distributed documentary on competitive endurance tickling called Tickled in 2016, and the Netflix documentary series, Dark Tourist in 2018. He also does a monthly podcast called ‘Armchaired and Dangerous’ with Dax She...

Dr. Art Nahill is originally from the Boston area and attended Yale University and after three years as a high-school science teacher obtained his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Harvard-affiliated Mount Auburn Hospital and spent the next twelve years practicing and teaching in general medicine in the Boston...

Dr. Elspeth Frascatore is an Emergency Physician, Director of Emergency Medicine Training at Auckland City, Deputy Censor for Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Auckland Branch President for Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (also known as ASMS, the union for our SMOs), mother of a toddler, and artist and photographer. She is the doctor behind the New Zealand open letter and mo...

Dr. Eileen Merriman is clinical director of haematology and lead thrombosis clinician at North Shore Hospital in NZ. She is the past president of the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and NZ, and on various international committees for thrombosis. In her spare time, she has a second career as a published author of both adult and young adult fiction. Her adult book, Moonlight Sonata,...

Dr. Judy Melinek is an American board-certified forensic pathologist and graduate of Harvard University. She trained at UCLA in medicine and pathology, graduating in 1996. Currently, Dr. Melinek is CEO of PathologyExpert Inc., & is currently based in Wellington, working as a clinical professor at the Otago School of Medicine. She also travels nationally and internationally to lecture on anatom...

Dr. Deborah Powell and I discuss her journey from a budding geriatrician into union advocacy, leaving clinical medicine, the importance of union membership, the effectiveness of NZRDA and its milestones, the most common fallacies and challenges for resident medical officers (RMOs), and some of the biggest challenges and opportunities coming up for resident medical officers (RMOs) in the next decad...

Dr. Jamie-Lee Rahiri and I discuss general surgical training, navigating racism in medicine, Māori inequities, being a medical māmā, her post-doctoral fellowship, her incredible mahi in Te Piringa Kotuku, and much more!  For any feedback and queries, or if you would like to get in touch with Dr. Rahiri, please email me at doctornos@pm.me. Happy listening!  Audio credit: Bliss by Luke Bergs https:/...

In this episode, Dr. Nicolas Szecket and I discuss training in general medicine, the highs and lows, the struggles with knowledge capacity, experience in being a clinical director, the future of medicine and the role of artificial intelligence, and much more. Dr. Nicolas Szecket is on the organising committee for the ANZ Improving Diagnosis Committee, which is discussed in this podcast. This event...

This episode is a short introduction on the podcast host, Dr. Maple Goh, and the motivations behind launching this podcast series.  This podcast was made possible by the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association Education Trust.  Audio credit: Bliss by Luke Bergs https://soundcloud.com/bergscloud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://b...