Your Doctor
Dr Ashwin Patel, General Practitioner
MBChB (Otago) Dip Obstet (Auckland), FRNZCGP (dist)
- Born and raised in Wellington, Married 38 years, 3 children
- Trained Otago Medical School, Postgraduate training in Wellington and Auckland
- Lived in Auckland since 1986, in Parnell last 28 years and Matakana from 2021
- In General practice 35 years.
- Own practice in Papatoetoe 1990-2001
- Took over from Dr Nelum Soysa in Parnell 2001 – present
- Awarded Distinguished Fellowship to the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2008
Professional interests include:
- Evidence Based Medicine (Best Practice Guidelines)
- Preventative Health Care. (Screening, detection and management of risk factors).
- Chronic Disease Management
- International expert in Medical Informatics
Medical Software Including:
- Next Generation Clinical Notes – Full clinical notes / Decision Support/ patient education. In hundred’s of sites through out NZ, pilot sites in South Africa and India.
- MyPractice Practice Management System
- Health365 Patient Portal
- Nexxt Pathway Navigator
- Diabetes Clinic Software -Whitiora Diabetes Clinic, South Auckland Vision Screening Database
- National Heart Foundation Coronary Risk Calculator / Guidelines
- Consultant on projects including: Breast Screening Program for Health Waikato, Discharge Summaries for Northland Health/ SAH, Laboratory Results Viewer (A+), Kidznet database.
Positions held:
- Chair South-Med Independent Practitioner Association
- Chair National Advisory Council for RNZCGPs
- Chair Auckland Faculty Board of RNZCGPs
- Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioner Practice Development Committee
- Chair Royal New Zealand College General Practitioners’ Information Committee
- NZ Health Standards Committee
- Standards New Zealand WG606 Committee
- National EMR Standards Working Party, National Term Dictionary Working Party
- WONCA (World organization of family practitioners) Informatics Working Party.
- WONCA Asia-Pacific Regional Classification Committee
- Australian Coding Jury for General Practice, New Zealand-Australia Joint Classification Committee
- TC-215 (International committee on EMR / Standards)
- Ex President Auckland Indian Medical Society
- IMAC (National Immunisation advisory committee)
- Trustee South Auckland Vision Screening Trust, Management committee of South Auckland Diabetes Project
- Information systems consultant to South Auckland Health
- Keynote Speaker – RACGP 9th Computer Conference, Melbourne
- Speaker –1997 Asia Pacific WONCA Regional Conference in Seoul
- Speaker at numerous health and IT conferences