Research expertise
Listed below are paediatric clinicians working in Auckland which have expressed an interest in providing research mentorship. Please use their e-mail address as your first point of contact.
| Name | Institution | Other contact information | Areas of research expertise |
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| Jane Alsweiler | The University of Auckland, Paediatrics | Phone +64 9 3797440 x 25367 Fax +64 9 3072804 Mobile +64 21 526363 |
Neonates; glucose homeostasis, growth |
| Innes Asher | The University of Auckland, Paediatrics | Asthma; respiratory disease; child poverty | |
| Catherine Byrnes | The University of Auckland, Paediatrics; Starship Children's Health (ADHB) | Phone +64 9 923 9770 |
Bronchiectasis, Cystic Fibrosis, lower respiratory tract infections, prevention of chronic respiratory symptoms, Empyema, Bronchoscopy |
| Stuart Dalziel | ADHB | Mobile +64 21 869068 | Acute paediatrics; long term effects of treatment; meta-analysis/critical appraisal |
| Simon Denny | The University of Auckland, Paediatrics | Mobile +64 21 2388089 | Adolescent and young adult health and wellbeing; Survey research; Health services; School-based health services |
| John Ferguson | ADHB | Paediatric Orthopaedics | |
| Arun Gangakhedkar | WDHB | General paediatrics, with interest in dermatology | |
| Cameron Grant | The University of Auckland; ADHB | Mobile +64 21 717127 | The Growing Up in New Zealand child cohort study (http://www.growingup.co.nz/en.html), The SHIVERS project (http://www.esr.cri.nz/health-science/our-work/shivers/), vitamin D, vaccine preventable disease and immunisation delivery |
| Rebecca Hayman | CMDHB | Emergency medicine and SUDI; suffocation; cases from the emergency department; subdural haemorrhage in babies with congenital cardiac disease, ethics; SIDS | |
| Natasha Heather | ADHB | Works in a newborn screening unit with a wealth of screening projects/audits she could supervise. |
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| Paul Hofman | The University of Auckland, Liggins Institute | Phone +64 9 9236453 Mobile +64 21 938897 |
Any paediatric endocrine based research including: Diabetes (all types), obesity, bone disorders, developmental origins of health and disease – including preterm and post term, small for gestational age and large for gestational age, interventions in mothers, IVF offspring outcome etc.; newborn screening – especially congenital hypothyroidism and congenital adrenal hyperplasia; growth and pubertal disorders |
| Stephen Howie | The University of Auckland, Paediatrics | International child health; child survival; pneumonia; vaccine-preventable diseases | |
| Craig Jefferies | ADHB | Mobile +64 21 957877 | Diabetes; endocrinology; audit; bone |
| Tim Jelleyman | WDHB, Community Paediatrician, Waitakere Hospital | Mobile +64 21 432744 | Systematic review; health services research; surveys and currently developing qualitative research methods |
| Patrick Kelly | ADHB | Mobile +64 21 402151 | Child abuse and neglect |
| Chris McKinlay | The University of Auckland, Liggins Institute | Mobile +64 27 4725099 | Neonatology; fetal growth; origins of cardiometabolic disease; antenatal steroids; preterm birth outcomes; clinical trials; systematic reviews |
| David McNamara | ADHB | Novel methods to analyse oximetry in children and infants as an outcome measure; Clinical trial of humidified high flow; Development of a patient satisfaction questionnaires; Exercise testing in children with lung disease; polysomnography, lung function; Qualitative interviewing (grounded theory) |
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| Michael Meyer | Middlemore Hospital, Neonatal Unit | Neonatal clinical trials – temperature control and radiant warmers and incubators, humidity, transition including delayed cord clamping, transitional circulation, functional echocardiography, nutrition including early protein intake, probiotics, lactoferrin, CPAP, Hiflow nasal cannula, erythropoietin, blood transfusion, oxygen saturation targeting, retinopathy, congenital infection and neonatal immune response to infection |
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| Nikki Mills | Starship Children's Hospital | Otitis media, airway, dysphagia, aspiration, breastfeeding, tongue ties, functional anatomy relating to feeding/swallowing; complex upper aerodigestive problems | |
| Arun Nair | WDHB | Phone +64 7 8398899 Fax +64 7 8398742 Mobile +64 21 2447856 |
Neonatal Nutrition & Neuroprotection in Newborn |
| Kahn Preece | ADHB | Mobile +64 21 542649 | Immune effects of vaccination; food allergy; quality of life |
| Udaya Samarakkody | WDHB | Phone +64 7 8398716 Fax +64 7 8398765 Mobile +64 21 887673 |
Clinical research in paediatric surgery; neonatal surgery and paediatric urology; research on clinical/surgical education |
| Cynthia Sharpe | ADHB | Paediatric neurology; neonatal seizures | |
| Mike Shepherd | ADHB | Mobile +64 21 938437 | Injury prevention; quality in acute healthcare; paediatric emergency medicine |
| Jon Skinner | ADHB | Long QT syndrome; sudden death in the young; inherited heart disease; haemodynamics |
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| Susan Stott | The University of Auckland, Surgery | Gait | |
| Melissa Wake | The University of Auckland, Paediatrics | Phone +64 9 923 7690 | Allergy, Development, Exercise, Growth, Nutrition, Respiratory, Infant, Obesity, Population Child, Youth; Cardiovascular health, Hearing, Language and literacy, Health services |
| Nichola Wilson | ADHB | Paediatric orthopaedics (trauma, gait, cerebral palsy, neuromuscular conditions) | |
| Nigel Wilson | ADHB | Mobile +64 21 565508 | Rheumatic Fever; Rheumatic heart Disease; Interventional Congenital Cardiac Catheterization |
| Andrew Wood | The University of Auckland; ADHB | Paediatric Haematology-Oncology, molecular medicine |
