Dr John Thwaites
Director, Medical Clinical Training - Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury
Qualification: MBA, FRACP, MB ChB
Bio: John is a specialist geriatrician for the older persons health specialist service of the Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury. He is also director of the CDHB Medical Education and Training Unit.
His topics include:
• Drug interactions in the elderly
• Dementia – the different types
• Falls in older people
• Falls, fractures and Osteoporosis