Ngaire Kerse

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Ngaire Kerse
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Kerse in 2020
Alma mater University of Melbourne
Scientific career
Fields Medicine
Institutions University of Auckland
Thesis
  • Health promotion and older people : a general practice intervention study  (1998)
Doctoral students Valerie Wright-St Clair

Ngaire Margaret Kerse MNZM is a New Zealand medical academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Auckland. [1]

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Academic career

After a 1998 PhD titled 'Health promotion and older people : a general practice intervention study' at the University of Melbourne, Kerse moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Notable students include Valerie Wright-St Clair. [9]

Awards and honours

In the 2020 New Year Honours, Kerse was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to seniors and health. [10]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Ngaire Kerse - The University of Auckland". Unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  2. "Monday Memo: 24 June 2019". New Zealand Doctor. 10 February 2025.
  3. "Focus should be on elderly abilities, not disabilities, disease and death, study finds". Stuff. 7 June 2019.
  4. "University aims to make med students' rural placements good experience for all". New Zealand Doctor. 10 February 2025.
  5. "How to prevent loneliness at Christmas: Eat with an older person". Stuff. 22 December 2018.
  6. "The century club: Life as a 100-year-old and beyond". Stuff. 10 May 2018.
  7. ZB, Newstalk. "Study may have found answer to a long life". ZB.
  8. "Is there a doctor in the house? Aged care and the GP". New Zealand Doctor.
  9. Wright-St Clair, Valerie A. (2008). 'Being aged' in the Everyday: uncovering the meaning through elders' stories (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/3080.
  10. "New Year honours list 2020". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.