Meet our panel of medical specialists

Aileen Ludlow is a medical oncologist at Auckland Public Hospital specialising in the management of Lung and GI cancer. She completed her oncology training in Christchurch before going on to do a research fellowship at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. She is a principal and sub-investigator on several industry

Sir Collin Tukuitonga is a medical graduate and Public Health Physician with extensive experience in health policy, research, management, and leadership in NZ and internationally. He is the inaugural Associate Dean Pacific and Associate Professor of Public Health in the University of Auckland. Prior to this role, he was the

Dr Paul Dawkins is a Respiratory Physician at Middlemore Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Auckland. He is clinical lead for lung cancer at Middlemore, and chairs the National Lung Cancer Working Group and Northern Cancer Network lung tumour stream. He is principal and co-investigator

Nikki is an academic General Practitioner. She currently lives in Wellington and works as a Professor for the University of Auckland in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care, and part-time as a General Practitioner in Wellington. She is the Principal Medical Advisor for Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC) at

Dr Helen Petousis-Harris is an Associate Professor in vaccinology in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland. She leads international collaborative research on vaccine safety and effectiveness and is a co-director of the Global Vaccine Data Network. Her work focuses on protecting populations

Dr Thorsten Stanley was born in Sweden and moved to England as a schoolchild, learning English as a second language. He completed his medical training in Scotland at Edinburgh University and subsequently Glasgow. He has been a consultant paediatrician in Wellington since 1981 and was a senior lecturer at the

Dr. Junie Wong is a Consultant Dermatologist and Mohs Micrographic Surgeon. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School and completed her postgraduate dermatology training in Liverpool, UK, before moving to New Zealand. She is a Fellow of the American College of Mohs Surgery, the Royal College of Physicians

Dr Blackmore is based in Wellington where he works as a microbiologist and (occasionally) an infectious diseases physician. He trained in New Zealand and South Australia where he completed fellowships with the RCPA and RACP, and completed a PhD thesis. He is reducing his workload preretirement, concentrating mainly on clinical

Nikki is a general medical oncologist, currently practicing in Wellington Regional Hospital. Her main sub interest is gastrointestinal cancers. Nikki is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago School of Medicine.