Dr Thorsten Stanley

MB ChB DCH DObstRCOG FRCP Senior Lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Otago, Wellington

Dr Thorsten Stanley trained at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and in Yorkhill and Royal Maternity hospitals, Glasgow with a special interest in immunology and has been in New Zealand since 1980.

Dr Stanley pracitices both paediatrics and neonatology and his clinics specialise in allergic disease. He also sees patients in private practice.

He has been Convenor of the DCH diploma since 1997 and established and has convened the annual regional paediatric update meetings for GPs since 2001. He teaches 5th and 6th year medical students and his research interests include probiotics, the microbiome and allergic disease.