Study Tour

Te Ao Hou, December 1966, Page 26

Study Tour Dr Peter Tapsell, Senior Orthopaedic surgeon at Rotorua Hospital, and Consultant to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, left New Zealand in September for a study tour, after receiving a State Department grant to visit top arthritis clinics in the U.S.A. He will also visit Canada, Dr Peter Tapsell Great Britain and Scandinavia, and on his way home, Hong Kong and Singapore. Over the past five years, Dr Tapsell has published several papers on the surgery of arthritis, and has carried out research work into this problem. He has travelled extensively in Europe, Russia and the far East. He is from the Ngati Whakaue hapu of the Arawa tribe, and was educated at Moketu Primary School, Rotorua High School, and Otago University, holding a Maori University scholarship and a Ngarimu scholarship while at Otago. Dr Tapsell trained in surgery at Edinburgh, London, and the Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, England.