Rate My Professor Philippa Cross

Dr Philippa Cross serves as a Senior Professional Practice Fellow at the University of Otago's Centre for Rural Health, located within the Faculty of Medicine in the Health Sciences Division. She is the Paper Co-convener for GENA 729, Surgical Specialties in Rural Settings, a distance learning paper that combines remote and in-person teaching to address medical specialties relevant to rural practice. Dr Cross holds the qualifications MBChB, BHB, BSocSc, and PGDipRPHP. In her clinical practice, she works as a Rural Hospital Physician and Clinical Lead at Whakatane Hospital. Her affiliations include Ngati Hinemanu, Ngati Paki, and Ngati Pukenga iwi. Dr Cross has contributed to rural health discourse through her co-authorship of the article 'Postcards from the edge,' published in the Journal of Primary Health Care in 2020, which features reflective accounts from rural health professionals during the initial COVID-19 lockdown period in New Zealand.