ANAESTHESIA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- SPECIALIST
- SPECIALIST ANAESTHETIST
Qualifications
BHB MBChB (Auckland 2001), FANZCA (2008) DipPeriopEcho (Melb 2011), AFRACMA (2022)
Job Titles:
- Consultant Anaesthetist, Waitemata DHB and Auckland Anaesthesia Associates
- SPECIALIST ANAESTHETIST
George is a specialist anaesthetist at Waitemata DHB and Auckland Anaesthesia Associates with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia. He has been the medical student supervisor for the WDHB Anaesthesia Department since 2013.
George studied medicine at the University of Cambridge before moving to New Zealand in 2003. He spent some time as an Emergency Department registrar and then began his anaesthesia training in Auckland in 2008. He became a Fellow of the Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in 2013.
George has a long standing interest in ethics with particular regard to ethical issues in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. He completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Health Sciences (Clinical Ethics) through the University of Otago in 2017.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- SPECIALIST ANAESTHETIST
Dr James Lai is a Consultant Anaesthetist with over 20 years of experience. He has completed advanced training in New Zealand, London, Sydney and the US. He works at private hospitals throughout Auckland and has a public appointment at Auckland City Hospital where he works in trauma, general and vascular surgery, neurosurgery and radiology. He has an academic appointment with the University of Auckland, teaching medical students and trainee doctors. He has special interests in ultrasound, echocardiography and regional anaesthesia.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (University of Auckland) - BHB MBChB
Dr. Jim Olson trained in anaesthesia and pain medicine in the UK before coming to New Zealand to complete a pain fellowship in Auckland. He is currently a specialist in anaesthesia and pain medicine working in both private and public in Auckland. In addition to an interest in anaesthesia for ear, nose and throat surgery he has a special interest in enhancing patient recovery after surgery and optimising patient safety and experience. He has spoken on the prevention of post surgical pain and outcome measure at a number of national and international meetings in recent years. He is on the council of the New Zealand pain society.
Bio
"Born and bred on the North Shore of Auckland, I have been a Consultant Anaesthetist at Auckland City Hospital since late 2013. My Medical and post graduate anaesthesia training has involved time in Wellington, Whangarei, Cork (Ireland) and across all 3 public hospitals in Auckland. My Fellowship in Ireland was in regional anaesthesia with a dedicated exposure to acute orthopaedic surgery. In public I continue a love of orthopaedics, as well as anaesthesia for ophthalmology and neurosurgery.
As an anaesthesiologist, it is my job to make the patient and surgeon's day as good as it can be. No one makes the decision to come forward for surgery lightly, and your welfare and comfort are the utmost priority. I like to catch up with patients before and after surgery - it is such a privilege to be part of this time in someone's life."
Qualifications
MB ChB 1991 Leeds; FRCA 1998; FFPMANZCA 2004
Qualifications
BSc, MbChB, FRCP (Ed) 2015, FANZCA 2014
Qualifications
MB ChB Edinburgh 1994
FRCA (UK) 2000 FANZCA 2003
Job Titles:
- SPECIALIST
- SPECIALIST ANAESTHETIST