Dr John Alchin​

Clinical Senior Lecturer, Orthopaedic Surgery & Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago, NZ

​​In the 1980s I worked in rural general practice (Chatham Islands for 3 years, and then 2 years in northern Tasmania).  In the 1990s I was employed for 8 years by Air NZ at Christchurch airport in Occupational and Aviation Medicine.  Then from 1998 I was an SMO in the Pain Management Centre at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch for 23 years, before retiring from clinical practice 2 years ago.  I was Vocationally Registered in Pain Medicine, and Occupational and Environmental Medicine.  I continue to teach in the post-graduate Pain courses at the Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch.

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