Ron Easthope
Ron is a retired Wellington Hospital cardiologist and is currently honorary Archivist Wellington Hospital, and honorary Archivist RACP (NZ).
He has been a regular contributor to the WMHS since 2002, and he created and maintains the society's web site.
His interests lie in medical history relating to New Zealand (especially Wellington) and Britain.
Talks given to WMHS previously have included:
| 2003 | Stories behind early heart surgery in Wellington |
| 2003 | Thomas Wakely - Battling Surgeon |
| 2004 | Medical Tales of Painting, Politics and the Painfully-paraysed Prisoner |
| 2005 | Mostly Murder - the life story of a great medical detective |
| 2005 | Remembering Dr Verney Cable |
| 2006 | Early Private Hospitals in Wellington and some of the remarkable Nurses who ran them |
| 2006 | Wellington Hospital - the early years. Celebrating 125 years in Newtown |
| 2007 | Potions, Premises and Personalities - some musings on Pharmacies and Pharmacists in early Wellington |
| 2008 | On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers - the extraordinary life of a Victorian nurse (with a Wellington Hospital connection) |
| 2009 | Sir James McKenzie 1853 - 1925 |
| 2010 | The Life and Times of Dr William Harvey |
| 2011 | The Big House - stories of Elibank |
| 2012 | The Place of Hearts - tales of the unexpected |
| 2013 | The National Heart Hospital 1914 - 1990 and the golden age of clinical cardiology |
| 2013 | London Hospitals - the impact of the Dissolution |
| 2014 | From Hogarth to Rowlandson Medical-themed satirical art in 18th century Britain |
| 2015 | William Ledingham Christie - the remarkable life and times of Otago Medical School's first graduate |
| 2016 | To (and from) Russia with love - the remarkable Ethel Christie |
| 2016 | Barbara Mackenzie - who do you think she was? |
| 2017 | Dr James Barry 1789 - 1865 a pioneering British Army surgeon |
| 2018 | F Truby King -:- a man of letters |
| 2019 | Educating Nurses at Wellington Hospital |