Rate My Professor Anganette Hall

Dr. Anganette Hall serves as a Professional Practice Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Otago's Wellington campus, part of the Faculty of Medicine within the Health Sciences Division. She earned her MBChB from the University of Otago, a Diploma in Child Health (DCH), and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP). Hall completed her medical training in 1997, specialized in paediatrics, and pursued advanced training in adolescent medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto during 2004 and 2005. She returned to New Zealand at the end of 2005 as a specialist in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. With over 20 years of experience working with individuals aged 10-25, she addresses challenges in physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. Clinically, she leads the paediatric inpatient eating disorder service at Wellington Regional Hospital (Te Wao Nui), overseeing medical stabilization, nutritional rehabilitation, and multidisciplinary care. She provides outpatient care for conditions such as ARFID, Anorexia Nervosa, and Bulimia Nervosa, monitoring growth, puberty, nutritional status, and complications while integrating therapies including Family-Based Treatment, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Hall coordinates care for comorbidities like anxiety, depression, OCD, and ADHD, and offers specialist input on medication management.

In her academic role, Hall acts as Course Co-convenor for the MCIN 601 Trainee Intern Paediatric Module, guiding sixth-year medical students through four weeks of acute paediatrics, outpatient clinics, and neonatal medicine, emphasizing skills in history-taking, examinations, diagnosis, investigations, and management. She teaches medical students, paediatric trainees, and doctors on youth community health, eating disorders, and adolescent mental health. Her research focuses on adolescent development, youth development, psychology of adolescence, cognitive and social development, and weight-related concerns and behaviours among young people. Key publications include 'Prevalence of weight-related concerns and behaviours among New Zealand young people' (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2012) and 'Adolescent and young adult medicine in Australia and New Zealand: Towards specialist accreditation' (2015), with 27 citations on ResearchGate. Hall has served on the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee and as Chair of the Regional Youth Mortality Review Committee. She holds memberships in the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, Academy of Eating Disorders, and other professional bodies.