Associate Professor Jim Reid

Jim Reid graduated in medicine at the University of Otago Medical School. He previously trained as a pharmacist. After finishing medicine, he undertook postgraduate work as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Miami in the USA. Back in NZ he headed the Dept of General Practice and Rural Heath at the Dunedin School of Medicine for over ten years and served as Post-Graduate Dean, Deputy Dean, and Dean of the School. He now actively practices medicine. He was a founder of the New Zealand Formulary and was a director for many years, and was a member of the Medical Advisory Panel of the New Zealand Asthma and Respiratory Foundation. He is a Distinguished Fellow and Life Member of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and is also a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.