Background

Ros trained as a doctor in the U.K., at University College London (UCL), and graduated in 1994 with both her medical degree and a degree in psychology.

She spent her first year out of University working as a doctor in London and then, having undertaken some of her student training in New Zealand, decided to move to New Zealand to work for one year.

She and her husband fell in love with the country and she applied and was accepted onto the surgical training program. She spent the next 10 years being moved around New Zealand on the General Surgical training program spending a year in Nelson along the way.

Qualifications and Memberships

Ros has a fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and is a member of the Breast SurgANZ group as well as the New Zealand Association of General Surgeons. She is the chair or Aotearoa New Zealand National Committee which represents all practicing surgeons in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS). In this role she had been co-opted to the college council and is an invited council executive member.

She is the Ambassador for the Nelson Regional Breast and Gynaecological Cancer Trust

She has a strong interest in Education and has a Master's in Surgical Education from Melbourne University. She instructs, directs, and sits on various Skills Courses Executive Committees for RACS.