Meet our panel of medical specialists

MD (Zagreb), FRACP Dragan is a medical oncologist at Auckland City Hospital and Auckland Oncology. His area of expertise is the whole spectrum of gastrointestinal tumours. He has been actively advocating for patients with colorectal cancers through multiple submissions for funding of new drugs and as a medical advisor to

Dr Alvin Tan is a consultant medical oncologist at Waikato Hospital and also practices in private at SalutisCare. He is the current Head of Department for Medical Oncology at Waikato Hospital and previous Chair of the Aotearoa New Zealand Advanced Training Subcommittee for Medical Oncology for the Royal Australasian College

Dr Sheridan Wilson is a Medical Oncologist specialising in the treatment of breast cancer. Sheridan graduated from the Auckland University School of Medicine in 2003 and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2012. Between 2013 and 2014, Sheridan completed a clinical research fellowship in breast

Dr Dean Harris is a medical oncologist working for Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Waitaha Canterbury. He is tumour lead for gastrointestinal and central nervous system malignancies and has a particular interest in 5-Fluorouracil cardiotoxicity. Dr Harris trained in Christchurch before going on to complete his fellowship at

Jessica is a NZ trained gynaecologist. She works as a senior medical officer at Te Toka Tumai Auckland Hospital and at Auckland Gynaecology Group. She completed a minimal access surgery fellowship in 2024. Her clinical interests are in the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis, abnormal uterine bleeding and fibroids.

Laura graduated from the University of Tasmania Medical School in 2017. She has since worked as a junior doctor at the Royal Hobart Hospital in Tasmania and has completed a year of Advanced Training in General and Acute Care Medicine with 6 months in Gastroenterology before starting as an advanced

MBCHB, MMED (UROLOGY), FC UROL (SA), FRACS, FACS, MBA Wikus is a full-time consultant urologist at Tauranga Hospital. He completed his medical, surgical and urological training in Bloemfontein and Pretoria, South Africa. He completed further training in laparoscopic and robotic surgery in Belgium, France and South Africa. Wikus has been

Md, MSc, FRACS, FACS Flávio is a full-time consultant urologist at Tauranga Hospital. He grew up in São Paulo, Brazil, and trained at São Paulo State University (UNESP). He undertook further specialist uro-oncology training at Sirio Libanês Hospital (2015 – São Paulo) followed by a Robotic Surgery and Endourology Clinical

Xaviour Walker is a consultant geriatrician and internal medicine physician at Dunedin Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Southern and honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Otago. He is a graduate of the University of Otago Medical School and completed his post graduate medical training from Harvard, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public

Craig has been a Paediatric Endocrinologist based at the Starship Children’s Hospital since 2004, with prior fellowships in Toronto and Starship Paediatric endocrinology. His research interests are predominantly in diabetes and diabetes technology, is an HRC clinical practitioner fellowship awardee and is an Assoc Professor (Hon) in the department of