
Dr John Thwaites
Director, Medical Clinical Training – Health New Zealand, Te Whatu Ora Canterbury, Waitaha Consultant Geriatrician
Qualification:MB ChB MBA GChPOM FRACP
Bio: John is a Consultant Geriatrician. He has a special interest in perioperative medicine. He is Director of Medical Clinical Training at Health New Zealand, Te Whatu Ora, Canterbury, Waitaha
His topics include:
• Drug interactions in the elderly
• Dementia – the different types
• Falls in older people
• Falls, fractures and Osteoporosis
• The altered presentation of illness in older people