Ross Lawrenson

Qualified in London and trained as a general practitioner in the UK.
Emigrated to New Zealand in 1983 and worked for 5 years as a GP in Wairoa before moving to the Waikato and training in public health (University of Otago Diploma Community Medicine)
Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health 1994
1995 returned to the UK as a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, which then merged with Imperial College. MD London University 1997

1998 moved to University of Surrey and in 2000 became Dean of the Postgraduate Medical School
Elected Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners
2005 returned to New Zealand as Professor of Primary Care with the University of Auckland and Assistant Dean of the Waikato Clinical School
Moved to the University of Waikato in 2016