Wakefield Clinic

Name :

Wakefield Clinic

Address  :

Rintoul Street
Newtown

Town  :

Wellington

State  :

Wellington

Country  :

NEW ZEALAND

Post Code:

6021

Phone  :

04 381 8110

Fax  :

04 381 8111

Web URL  :


Description

The Wakefield Clinic is a private clinic run by Professor Richard Stubbs specialising in the surgical treatment of diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract such as those listed below Many of the treatments offered are new and innovative and the Clinic has since its inception in 1991 acquired a national and even international reputation for some of these particularly in the field of liver cancer and severe obesity The Wakefield Clinic is located within and forms an important part of Wakefield Hospitals Gastroenterology Centre

The clinic is actively involved in postgraduate teaching and research activity It has its own research laboratory in which up to ten scientists and research officers work at any one time
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