Our people
The Department of Physiology is home to a dynamic team of teaching and academic staff dedicated to excellence in teaching and research across the medical sciences.

Head of Department: Justin Dean , BSc MSc(Tech) Waik., PhD
Group Services Coordinator: Adeline Fung , BSc
Teaching fellows:
Anuj Bhargava, MBChB Bom., PGDipSci Otago
Nishani Lim, BSc(Hons) PhD
Sally Rutherford,BSc(Hons) PhD
Raj Selvaratnam,MSc Otago PhD
Teaching technicians:
Estee Vermeulen
Francesca Higgins
Academic staff:
Laura Bennet, MA PhD; FRSNZ
Paul Donaldson, BSc(Hons) PhD Otago
Alistair J. Gunn, MBChB Otago, PhD; FRACP FRSNZ
Simon Malpas, BSc Well., PhD Otago; FRSNZ
Johanna Montgomery, BSc(Hons) PhD Otago
Julian F. Paton, BSc(Hons) PhD Brist.; FRSNZ
Peter Thorne, CNZM, BSc DipSc Otago, PhD (jointly with Audiology)
Carolyn J. Barrett, BSc(Hons) PhD Otago
Joanne O. Davidson, BSc(Hons) PhD
James Fisher, BSc(Hons) PhD Birm.
Angus Grey, BTech(Hons) PhD
Julie Lim, MSc PhD
Kimberley Mellor, BBioMedSc Otago, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb.
Rohit Ramchandra, MSc PhD
Srdjan Vlajkovic, MD MSc PhD Belgrade
Fiona McBryde, BSc(Hons) PhD
Marie-Louise Ward, MSc PhD
David Crossman, BSc(Hons) Otago PhD
Sarah-Jane Guild, ME PhD
Christopher Lear, BSc(Hons) PhD
Anna Ponnampalam, BTech(Hons) PhD
Guido Wassink, MSc PhD
Amelia Power, BSc(Hons) PhD
Randall D’Souza, MSc PhD
Ana Luiza Sayegh, BSc FMU, PhD São Paulo
Simerdeep Dhillon, MSc PhD
Mickey Fan, MSc Otago, PhD Lausanne
Julia Shanks, BSc Warw., MSc DPhil Oxf.
Rachael Taylor, MAud PhD Syd.
Xin Shen, BSC(Hons) PhD
Carol Bussey, BSc PhD Tas.
Yadi Chen, BE(Hons) PhD
Tonja Emans, MSc Utrecht, PhD Amsterdam
George Guo, BS Lanzhou, PhD HKUST
Alyssa Lie, BOptom PhD
Renita Martis, BOptom(Hons) PhD
Mridula Pachen, MSc PhD
Wilson Pan, BTech(Hons) PhD
Audrys Pauza , PhD Brist.
Rosica Petrova, MSc PhD
Ana Luiza Sayegh , BSc FMU, PhD São Paulo
Haruna Suzuki-Kerr , BSc(Hons) PhD
Pratik Thakkar, M.Pharm Ganpat, PhD
Irene Vorontsova, BSc(Hons) PhD
Igor Felippe, BSc, MSc, PhD
Kelly Zhou, PhD
Benjamin Lear, BSc, PGDipSci, MSc, PhD
Victoria King, PhD
Alice McDouall, PhD
Amatul Ahamad, PhD
Marco Annandale, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD
Honorary
Lea Delbridge
Ian Le Grice
Nigel Lever
Denis Loiselle
Alona Ben-Tal
Kevin Webb
Paul Drury
Sarbjot Kaur
Yukti Vyas
Anna Krstic
Kathryn Todd
Yukti Vyas
Molly Abraham
Kevin Lee
Yewon Jung
Juliette Cheyne
Rashika Karunasinghe
Kenta Cho
Annika Winbo
Peter Freestone
Professor Emeritus
Janusz Lipski, MD PhD DSC Warsaw