Prior, Ian A M

Born Masterton 16 Oct 1923 Died Wellington 17 Feb 2009
Ian Prior
Educated at Wairarapa High School (Wairarapa College)
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1946 – 1947
Medical Registrar, New Plymouth Hospital 1948
Pathology Registrar, Pathology Department, University of Otago 1949
Research Registrar, Department of Medicine, University of Leeds 1950
Registrar, the National Heart Hospital, London 1951 – 1953 (Drs Paul Wood, Evan Bedford and William Evans)

photograph courtesy RACP archive
Senior Medical Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1953 – 1954
Physician, Staff Health, Wellington Hospital 1954
Assistant Physician, Wellington Hospital 1955 – 1959
Fulbright Scholar at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston and Harvard University 1957 – 1958
Involved with cardiac catheterisation at Wellington Hospital 1953 – 1959
Director, Medical Unit, Wellington Hospital 1959 – 1970
Director, Epidemiology Unit, Wellington Hospital 1970 – 1986
Honorary Fellow, Department of Community Health, Wellington School of Medicine 1987 – (became Department of Public Health in 1994)

Obituary: NZMJ 2009 122:122