Rate My Professor Patrick Manning

Professor Patrick Manning serves as Clinical Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine at the Dunedin School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Otago. He is also a Consultant Endocrinologist at Southern District Health Board and Director of the Endocrinology Research Group. Manning earned his BHB and MB ChB from the University of Auckland in 1982 and 1985, respectively, an MMedSc from the University of Otago in 1994, and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 1992. His career trajectory includes serving as Senior Registrar in Endocrinology at Middlesex Hospital, London from 1991 to 1992, Medical Registrar at Auckland Hospital from 1988 to 1991, and House Surgeon at Auckland Hospital from 1986 to 1988. Since 1993, he has been a Consultant Endocrinologist at Southern District Health Board, Dunedin. Manning has received notable awards such as the WE Henley Prize in Clinical Medicine from the University of Auckland in 1985, the TWJ Johnson Prize in Clinical Medicine in 1990, the Registrars Prize from Auckland Hospital in 1990, the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Teaching Fellowship in 1991, and the Nuffield Postgraduate Travelling Fellowship in 1991.

Manning's research focuses on endocrinology and diabetes, including clinical trials in metabolism, the link between obesity and insulin resistance, effects of meal composition on postprandial inflammation, and interventions for type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis. He has contributed to international multicenter trials such as the FIELD study on fenofibrate effects in type 2 diabetes (The Lancet, 2005), TECOS on sitagliptin cardiovascular outcomes (New England Journal of Medicine, 2015), Irbesartan in diabetic nephropathy (2001), and Camellia-TIMI on lorcaserin in obesity. Recent publications include 'Machine learning-based identification of abnormal functional connectivity in obesity across different metabolic states' (Communications Medicine, 2026), 'A pituitary macroadenoma cosecreting prolactin and growth hormone' (JCEM Case Reports, 2025), and 'Variational autoencoder learns better feature representations for EEG-based obesity classification' (2025). As principal or joint investigator, he has obtained grants totaling over $1.9 million. Manning has supervised PhD and postgraduate students, served as President of the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes (2006-2009), Chairperson of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Specialist Training Committee for Endocrinology (New Zealand, 2017-present), and held roles on Health Research Council committees including the Biomedical Research Committee and College of Experts.