Associate Professor Patrick J.D. Dawes

President of the New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (NZSOHNS)

Clinical Associate Professor ORLHNS, Dunedin School of Medicine and Dunedin Public Hospital, Dunedin, NZ

Associate Professor Dawes trained at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London; qualifying in 1982. He trained in ORLHNS in Bath, Bristol and Newcastle before taking up consultant practice in Sunderland, UK. In 1998 he moved to New Zealand where he has worked for the last 20 years at Dunedin Hospital and the University of Otago. He is the current President of the New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. His primary interest is Otology, but he has a general scope of practice. His research interests are Chronic Otitis Media, Adenotonsillar disorders and Anatomy of the temporal bone and neck compartments.