Professor Wayne Cutfield MBChB, DCH, FRACP
Professor Cutfield is Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at the University of Auckland and an expert on insulin sensitivity and action in children. He has been Chairman of the New Zealand Growth Hormone Committee since 2000 and was Deputy Director of the Liggins Institute 2007-2009.
A graduate of The University of Auckland School of Medicine, Professor Cutfield is a former Director of Endocrinology at Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital where he was responsible for innovations in the care of children with hormone based conditions such as diabetes and growth disorders. He has been involved in the training and administration of training of junior doctors in Paediatrics and Paediatric Endocrinology through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Endocrinology Specialist Advisory Committee.
He is Director of the Maurice and Nessie Paykel Clinical Research Unit at the Liggins Institute where he leads clinical research which shows how environmental influences early in life can affect childhood growth and development in ways that could lead to chronic conditions in adult life.
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