Meet our panel of medical specialists

Research Review New Zealand works with over 70 local medical specialists to select and advise on the most important research from around the world. They advise on what really matters, what impact it has on local healthcare and what we need to do in our daily practice to accomodate new skills and knowledge. Select a category below to see more about each of our expert advisors.

Dr Xaviour Walker

Dr Xaviour Walker

Xaviour Walker is a consultant geriatrician and internal medicine physician at Southern District Health Board and Associate Dean Pacific Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago. He is a graduate of the University of Otago Medical School and completed his post graduate medical training from Harvard, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he also received his Master’s in Public Health, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and University of California, Irvine. He is triple American Board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Public Health and Preventive Medicine and is a Fellow of Australian College of Physicians (FRACP). He lectures internationally on healthy ageing, preventive medicine and public health. His research interests in healthy ageing, geriatrics, Pacific Island health and workforce and medical education... read more »

Professor Martin Connolly

Professor Martin Connolly

Martin Connolly trained in the UK and since 2006 has been Freemasons’ Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has published extensively in many areas including COPD, depression, chronic conditions management, frailty, residential aged care and healthy ageing. He directs a multidisciplinary research group composed of members with medical, nursing, epidemiological and statistical expertise... read more »