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| Dr Young is a General Physician at Auckland City Hospital. He is a medical graduate of the University of Otago and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship which enabled him to graduate from the University of Oxford with a PhD in Molecular Genetics. He has been a Consultant Physician in the Department of Medicine, Auckland City Hospital for the last 13 years and recently promoted to Associate Professor, jointly appointed in the Faculties of Health and Medical Sciences and the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. Currently he lectures to medical students and post-graduate science students. His research and clinical interests focus on the primary prevention and early diagnosis of the smoking related respiratory diseases COPD and lung cancer. He has been the first to show that COPD and lung cancer are linked at a molecular genetic level through overlapping pathogenetic pathways which are activated by smoking in susceptible smokers.
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