WELLINGTON MEDICAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Bob Smith

Bob graduated from Otago in medicine in 1961.   He is a retired Wellington Hospital physician (general medicine and diabetes).
He also worked in hospitals in Palmerston North, Canberra, Honiara and London.

Since retiring he has studied theology for a Dip Grad from Otago, and is a church lay minister.

Talks given to WMHS previously have included:

2010 A History of Insulin and its Use
2016 Stories with a medical aspect from the Book of Tobit
2017 The Legacy of Epicurus
2018 Hitler's Gift to British Medicine
2019The troubling legacy of Auguste Deter, Alois Alzheimer and Emil Kraepelin