May 2, 2021
MBChB, FRACP, FCSANZ
Graduate of the Auckland School of Medicine and completed cardiology training at Wellington Hospital. Undertook a two year post graduate training interventional cardiology fellowship at Philadelphia, USA supported by a New Zealand NHF training fellowship.
Areas of expertise include general adult cardiology, clinical and invasive assessment of coronary heart disease along with advanced techniques for coronary intervention including balloon angioplasty, rotoblation and stent treatment; balloon mitral valvuloplasty for management of mitral stenosis and rheumatic valvular heart disease; structural heart disease management with ASD, left atrial appendage occlusion, PFO closure, balloon aortic valvuloplasty and TAVI (transcatheter aortic value intervention); implantation of permanent pacemakers and implantable loop recorders.
Senior clinical lecturer in cardiology at Otago University Wellington School of Medicine.
Bruce Bennett says new technology that zeroes in on hard-to-target prostate cancer is a great advancement – he just wishes it had arrived earlier, and cheaper. After three biopsies, dating back to 2005, that missed his cancer, Bennett – a 65-year-old retired Wellington teacher – was tested earlier this year with new fusion biopsy technology, which found […]
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Acurity Health Group and property partner Vital Healthcare Property Trust have confirmed base isolators will be employed in the $106 million re-development of Wellington’s Wakefield Hospital enabling it to remain operational after a major earthquake. Wellington City Council has granted a Resource Consent for the proposed new hospital. Enabling works are currently underway with construction expected […]
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Base isolators will be part of Wakefield Hospital’s $106 million redevelopment to ensure it can keep operating following a major earthquake. Plans were announced in November to bowl most of Wellington’s largest private hospital, in Newtown, to make way for an upgrade which will give patients access to state-of-the art facilities. Acurity Health Group and property partner Vital […]
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Bruce Bennett says new technology that zeroes in on hard-to-target prostate cancer is a great advancement – he just wishes it had arrived earlier, and cheaper. After three biopsies, dating back to 2005, that missed his cancer, Bennett – a 65-year-old retired Wellington teacher – was tested earlier this year with new fusion biopsy technology, which found […]
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Acurity Health Group and property partner Vital Healthcare Property Trust have confirmed base isolators will be employed in the $106 million re-development of Wellington’s Wakefield Hospital enabling it to remain operational after a major earthquake. Wellington City Council has granted a Resource Consent for the proposed new hospital. Enabling works are currently underway with construction expected […]
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Base isolators will be part of Wakefield Hospital’s $106 million redevelopment to ensure it can keep operating following a major earthquake. Plans were announced in November to bowl most of Wellington’s largest private hospital, in Newtown, to make way for an upgrade which will give patients access to state-of-the art facilities. Acurity Health Group and property partner Vital […]
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