James Michael WATT   
MB ChB (NZ), DCH (Lond), FRACP, FRCP (Lond)
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Born Dunedin 5/7/1914    Died Auckland 17/9/1988

Educated at Wellesley and Wellington Colleges
Member of the All Blacks in 1936

MB ChB (NZ) 1937, MRACP 1948, MRCP (Lond) 1948, DCH (Lond) 1948, FRACP 1968,
FRCP (Lond) 1969

HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1938 - 1939
WW2 service in the Middle East 1940 - 1944

General practice in Lower Hutt 1944 - 1948.  During this time he attended the paediatric ward at Hutt Hospital with his senior GP colleagues.

Postgraduate training at the Hospital for Sick Children, London 1948

Visiting Paediatrician, Hutt Hospital 1949 - 1953
Senior Paediatrician, Hutt Hospital 1953 - 1963
Senior Paediatrician, Wellington Hospital 1963 - 1967

Foundation Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, Otago Medical School 1967 - 1978

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Obituary: NZMJ 1989 102: 27,   102:118

photograph courtesy
NZ Medical Journal