About
About the Wellington Medical History Society
The Wellington Medical History Society (WMHS) is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of medicine in the Wellington region. Through research, archival work, and community engagement, the Society highlights the stories, milestones, and individuals that have shaped local healthcare over the years.
As a multi-disciplinary group with a keen interest in medical history, we also share and celebrate our research, experiences and topics we are currently investigating from all historical periods and locations.
Our main contact is through monthly face to face meetings, where a topic is presented to the group. This is done through voluntary sign up to the year’s programme by members.
We welcome anyone with an interest in medical history-you do not need a professional health background. We also have a large email database of members who are unable to attend monthly meetings, but a keen to stay in touch. Membership is free.
Office Bearers
Associate Professor Dr Jayne Krisjanous
Chair/Secretary
Jayne Krisjanous is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka.
Dr Aine McCoy
Treasurer
Aine qualified MB BCh BAO at Queen's University Belfast in 1975 and came to Wellington in 1976 to work as a house surgeon then registrar at Wellington Hospital.
Dr Michael Harrison
Website Coordinator
He has co-authored several anaesthesia textbooks and has two self-published books on the work of British academic anaesthetists, 1950-2000.
Clare Ashton
Committee
Clare trained as a nurse and midwife in New Zealand. Her nursing experience has been varied, in operating theatres, maternity, psychiatry, general practice and at sea.
In memoriam
Revisit our old website
Our previous website, built with care and dedication, is still available and full of valuable information. You can check it out here by clicking the link below.