Videos and public lectures

Paediatrician Dr Alexandra Wallace has been collecting awards for presentations about her research on fetal anaemia and the adult heart. She won the Doctoral Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science Oral Presentation and the AMRF Emerging Researcher Awards at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences “Healthex” event in September 2012 and went on the win Best Oral Presentation at the University-wide “Exposure”.
 

Watch a video of Alexandra’s presentation at Exposure

 

Nearly 70% of the world's population dies from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Liggins Institute research has shown these conditions begin early in development and that good nutrition before and during pregnancy and throughout life is important for creating and maintaining ongoing health and minimising the risks of obesity and NCDs.

Watch our videos about

Non-communicable diseases

Nutrition obesity and exercise

Type 2 diabetes

Professor Wayne Cutfield, Director of the Liggins Institute, was a keynote speaker at the Australia and New Zealand Obesity Society’s 2012 Conference and took part in a public lecture/panel discussion where he talked about some of the early life origins of obesity.

Watch a video of his presentation.

 

Two Liggins Institute investigators, Professor David Cameron-Smith and Associate Professor Paul Hofman were invited speakers at The University of Auckland Vice Chancellor’s Lecture Series 2012:"Exercise is Medicine"

Read an overview of the series

 Lecture 2: Nutrition and Exercise: Protein for Power vs. Carbohydrate for Performance
Watch a video of the lecture, Professor Cameron-Smith’s lecture begins at approx. 24 minutes

 Lecture 3: Exercise as Life-long Medicine
Watch a video of the lecture, Assoc.Professor Hofman is the first speaker
 
 

The Liggins Institute recognises that many of our lectures are of interest to audiences beyond those who attend the event. We are endeavouring to record as many of these as possible and make them available through this site.

December 2011

Dr Richard Fisher CNZM, FRCOG, FRNZCOG CREI

Director Fertility Associates Ltd.
Adjunct Professor of Fertility Medicine at the Liggins Institute

Dr Fisher is a prominent spokesman on infertility issues and pioneer in the development of fertility services and assisted reproductive technologies in New Zealand. He was a member of the National Women’s Hospital team responsible for the country’s first babies born following in vitro fertilisation (IVF). In an effort to make the new technologies available to a greater number of infertile couples, he and colleague Dr Freddie Graham founded New Zealand’s first private fertility clinic Fertility Associates in1987.

At an event held to celebrate his appointment as Adjunct Professor of Fertility Medicine in the Liggins Institute, Dr Fisher described the development of IVF in New Zealand. He paid tribute to his mentor Sir Graham Liggins whose influence guided his early clinical career. However, he said the true pioneers were the parents who underwent the complex procedures, which at that time offered only slim chances of successful pregnancies; they were “courageous beyond belief,” he said.

Watch a recording of Dr Fisher's lecture