Meet John

John has held a senior position within the Department of Ear Nose and Throat Surgery at Waikato Hospital since 2005. He was a member of the New Zealand Training Education and Assessment Committee for Otolaryngology training from 2007–2016.

With strong links to Braemar Hospital, John was a Trustee of the hospital from 2012–2016 and in 2017 joined the Board of Braemar Hospital Limited.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, member of the New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgeons, and a member of the Australia and New Zealand Rhinologic Society.

John is a regular faculty member and guest lecturer at the Stanford University Facial Plastic Surgery Course in California.

Training

John trained at the University of Otago Medical School, and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2002. He spent a year working in private practice in Queensland, Australia and then undertook additional training in Facial Plastic Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.

John grew up in Hamilton, where his father, Dr Hugh Clarkson, was a popular and highly respected member of the medical community, working as an anaesthetist for over 40 years, and as a family GP.