David James McHAFFIE

MB ChB (Otago) 1969, FRACP 1978

Born 17 Apr 1945

David McHaffie

Educated at Nelson College

James Roberts Boyd prize in Clinical Medicine 1969

House physician and surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1970 - 1972

Medical Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1973 - 1974

Senior Cardiology Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1975 - 1976

MRC (NZ) Overseas Travelling Fellow and Honorary Lecturer in Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London 1975 - 1977

Fellow and then locum Senior Registrar, Cardiac Department, Brompton Hospital, London, 1977 - 1978

Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, Wellington Clinical School (Otago University) 1978 - 2005

Consultant Cardiologist, Wellington and Kenepuru Hospitals 1978 - 2005

Visiting Cardiologist, Kenepuru Hospital 2005 - 2013

Ardent promoter of excellence in clinical assessment. Pioneer of echocardiography at Wellington Hospital.

photograph courtesy Wellington Hospital photographic archive
Last updated 29 October 2016.