Rate My Professor Eric Espiner

Emeritus Professor Eric Espiner is a distinguished endocrinologist affiliated with the Department of Medicine and Christchurch Heart Institute at the University of Otago, Christchurch. He holds MB ChB and MD degrees from the University of Otago, along with fellowships FRACP and FRSNZ. After graduating from Otago Medical School in 1957, Espiner commenced his medical career as a house surgeon at Christchurch Hospital in 1958. He advanced to medical registrar at Princess Margaret Hospital under the supervision of Sir Donald Beaven, completed his doctorate examining the pituitary's role in adrenal regulation through collaborations involving adrenal transplants in sheep, and secured a two-year travelling scholarship to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston for aldosterone research in hypertension and Conn's syndrome. Returning to Christchurch in 1967 as assistant director of the Medical Unit, he later contributed to establishing the Christchurch Heart Institute in the late 1980s, pursuing clinical research over 65 years.