Dr. Jenny Visser graduated from medical school (University of Otago, New Zealand) in 1986. She is vocationally trained in General Practice and is a Fellow of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. Following a special interest in travel medicine she is now Lead for Travel Medicine Postgraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington. There, she convenes and teaches the university’s qualifications in travel medicine enjoying the stimulation that teaching brings. Her research interests include the travel health needs of long term expatriates and expedition medicine. She also worked part time in clinical travel medicine at The Travel Doctor in Wellington for many years, where her clinical role included being medical advisor to New Zealand Red Cross for overseas deployments.
Jenny has worked in many roles and places, including being a full time general practitioner in Wellington for 12 years, medical advisor to New Zealand Land Search and Rescue, medical officer on the research vessel RV Tangaroa (spending eight summers in Antarctica), a season as a volunteer doctor at a high altitude rescue post in Nepal, two months on set in a remote village in Bougainville as film crew doctor and expedition doctor on treks to Kilimanjaro, China and Fiji. When she is not working she is travelling (often by bike or trekking) either in New Zealand or overseas.
In this episode, we discuss her various expeditions to Antarctica, Nepal and Bougainville, her love for travel, her work in travel medicine and what the future holds for wanderlusters.
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