Rate My Professor Alastair Hepburn

Alastair Hepburn serves as Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Urology section of the Department of Surgery and Critical Care (Dunedin) within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Otago. He earned his MBChB from the University of Otago in 2000 and obtained FRACS in Urology in 2014. As a consultant urologist, he practices at Dunedin Public Hospital and serves as a visiting consultant at Mercy Hospital Dunedin. Hepburn holds the position of Training Supervisor for Urology at Southern District Health Board and is a member of the Training and Education Board for the New Zealand section of Urological Surgeons of Australia and New Zealand. Raised and schooled in Cromwell, Central Otago, he spent summers picking fruit and later served as a private in the New Zealand Army infantry while playing rugby for Southern. After completing his medical degree, he worked several years in the United Kingdom as a Forensic Physician for the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary. He then pursued formal surgical and urological training in New Zealand locations including Otago, Auckland, and Tauranga, followed by fellowships in Urological Oncology and Transplant Urology in Sydney, Australia, before returning to Dunedin.