Dr Bruce McKinnon

Dr Bruce McKinnon

I was born and grew up in Invercargill. My first introduction to the Wakatipu was a camping holiday in Kingston in 1966.

I have studied at the University of Otago in Dunedin and Stanford University in Northern California. With a vision of being an obstetrician/ women’s health specialist, I worked as a registrar in Women’s Health in both Invercargill and Dunedin Hospitals while training in the RANZCOG programme. But family practice beckoned, as did the Wakatipu.

My interests outside of medicine include tennis, cricket, art, classical music, and anything with eight or more cylinders. God bless Adventure Tourism, but for me jumping out of a plane is something you do only if it’s on fire.

In 2007 I moved with my wife Anna to Queenstown from Dunedin, and the following year we had our son Kyle.

Registered Nurse Alejandra Floores De La Torre

Dr Anne-Thea McGill

Dr (& Adjunct Prof) Anne-Thea McGill, completed an ecology and evolutionary biology degree, many years ago, and later did medicine, and General Practice (GP) training in New Zealand & Australia. During her GP work it became obvious that people with ‘obesity’ were not being adequately helped by her own medical profession. Her PhD was on markers and causes of metabolic syndrome (central obesity diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease, early dementia). She completed the PhD whilst researching at the University of Auckland, Human Nutrition Unit. Anne-Thea has taught post graduate Lifestyle Medicine at the General Practice Department, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, and was a guest lecturer on a number of other courses at the medical School. Her GP work has become specialised in nutrition, metabolic syndrome and eating disorders. She went to Brisbane in 2015, after a sabbatical in Oxford, UK. In November 2019, she returned to the South Island, here in Queenstown, to work as a clinical GP in addition to offering a clinic in nutrition and metabolic health.

I am Alejandra, a Registered Nurse. Originally from Chile, I am a specialised nurse in Oncology/Haematology with almost six years’ experience in bone marrow transplant. I came to NZ in 2018, currently working as a Practice Nurse in Queenstown. In my free time I like hiking, biking and climbing, and the outdoor activities that Queenstown has to offer.

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