Thiers John HALLIWELL

MB ChB (Otago) 1965, DO RCS (Eng) RCP (Lond) 1970, FRCS (Eng) 1972, FRANZCO 1983

Born Gisborne 4 Nov 1941

Thiers Halliwell

Educated at Gisborne Boys' High School

HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1966 - 1967

Ophthalmology Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1968 - 1969

Registrar, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London 1970 - 1972

Senior Registrar, Moorfields eye Hospital, London 1972 - 1974

Whole-time Ophthalmologist, Mvumi Mission Hospital, Tanzania 1975

Whole-time Ophthalmologist, Wellington Hospital 1976 - 2002

Clinical Head, Ophthalmology Department, Wellington Hospital 1992 - 2000

Post retirement, Thiers has alternated between narrowboating on English canals, and intermittent part-time ophthalmology practice at Masterton Hospital, in the Solomon Islands (2003), and a little private practice in Wellington.

 

photograph courtesy Eye Department archives
Last updated 30 October 2016.