UROLOGY WAIKATO - Key Persons
Michael graduated in 1988 from Otago University, New Zealand with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, and a Bachelor of Science. He undertook his junior doctor training in Otago and Nelson hospitals before working as a general practitioner in Nelson for 18 months and then as a mission doctor in Kenya for 6 months. After completing his specialist training in urology in New Zealand, Michael undertook a fellowship in Cardiff, training in both reconstruction and cancer surgery. Since then, his main interest has been prostate surgery, and he has spent time at both the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre and the Mayo clinic Rochester observing open surgical techniques for radical prostatectomy by world experts. Michael has received the Keith Kirkland prize on two separate occasions for his research related to prostate biopsies. The first for work on local anaesthetics to reduce pain and the second on the use of rectal swabs pre biopsy to reduce post biopsy sepsis.