James is a Consultant Neurologist at Auckland City and Middlemore Hospitals, and in private practice in Cambridge where he lives (with his wife Allison, also Consultant Neurologist). He is a New Zealander who completed primary medical qualification in 1995 (Auckland Medical School). After completing house surgeon and registrar positions in Auckland (1998), he undertook advanced specialist training at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. After his neurology residency training, he undertook further fellowship training in Clinical Neurophysiology and then in Neuromuscular disease at the same institution, and was admitted to the faculty of Neurology at the University of Rochester as Assistant Professor in 2004. After returning to the Waikato in 2006, he has worked at Waikato DHB, and has been in independent private practice as a Neurologist with subspecialty interest in neuromuscular and electrodiagnostic medicine since 2008. He has American Board certification in Neurology and also in Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. As well as being a clinician, James maintains an active research interest in muscle ion channel disorders, collaborating with an international consortium. He is a reviewer for the peer-reviewed journal, Muscle and Nerve, the main research publication for electrodiagnostic medicine. He finds that the breadth of clinical work in NZ is refreshing, and enjoys working in both a large centre (Auckland), and also a semi-rural environment (Cambridge). His educational session will focus on a practical, case-based guide to EMG/NCS for the general practitioner. It will include discussion of where (and where not) EMG/NCS can help with diagnosis, clinical-EMG correlations, and also guidance in the basics of interpreting the EMG/NCS report.
| Neurophysiology for the GP
Concurrent Workshop |
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| Saturday, 14 June 2014 | Start 4:30pm | Duration: 60mins | Room 10 |