Peter is the Clinical Lead for Acute Care at Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ), Director of Emergency Research at Auckland Hospital and an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland. He has an MSc in Evidence Based Healthcare from Oxford and a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Auckland, exploring ED time targets and quality of care, including how targets can reduce Access Block. He has served on the ACEM Trainee Research, Quality and Overcrowding Committees. He also chairs the NZ Emergency Medicine Network for research. He has over 120 publications in the peer reviewed literature, many on ED Crowding and Access Block, which is his primary research focus.
