Professor Wayne S. Cutfield  

BHB, MB ChB, DCH, MD, FRACP

• Professor in Paediatirc Endocrinology

• Director, The Liggins Institute, the University of Auckland

• Chairman, NZ Growth Hormone Committee

• NRCGD Board member

• NRCGD Project Leader

Research interests

Long term metabolic and endocrine consequences of pre- and perinatal events

NRCGD Project: Click here for details

Biography

Professor Wayne Cutfield is a paediatric endocrinologist and an expert on insulin sensitivity and action in children.

Wayne is the Director of the Liggins Institute, the Chairman of the NZ Growth Hormone Committee since 2000 and co-ordinates the paediatric training programme for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. As Director of the Liggins Institute's Maurice and Agnes Paykel Clinical Research Unit, he leads clinical research which shows how environmental influences early in life can affect childhood growth and development in ways that could lead to chronic conditions in adult life.

Wayne is the immediate past president of the Asia Pacific Paediatric Endocrine Society (APPES), a large regional umbrella society representing 15 countries and over half the world’s population. He established paediatric endocrine service in Auckland and was Director of the service for many years.

Contact details

The Liggins Institute

The University of Auckland

Private Bag 92019

Auckland 1142, New Zealand

Email ; Phone +64 9 9234476