Dr Matire Harwood now a professor at Waipapa Taumata Rau
This week Dr Matire Harwood became a professor at Waipapa Taumata Rau, Auckland University's School of Medicine. She continues to combine academia with her mahi as a GP. When she was a young girl her grandfather told her she would become a doctor eventually she earned a Bachelor in Medicine, became a GP and earned her PHD in 2011. Dr Harwood says whanau encouragement was important as was the influence of a female school science teacher in Australia who wore stilettos and drove a hot rod.
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