Doctor to heart group post
PA Wellington Dr Peter Leslie, the head of Wellington Hospital’s cardiology department, has been appointed the new chairman of the scientific committee of the National Heart Foundation. He succeeds Professor J. D. Hunter. Dr Leslie is also chairman of the New Zealand region of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and chief medical adviser to the New Zealand Red Cross Society. He has been associated with the Heart Foundation since its formation, chairman of its health education committee since 1979, and is a long-serving member of its council and scientific committees. Dr Stewart Reid, of Lower Hutt, will succeed Dr Leslie as chairman of the health education committee of the foundation. Host practitioner in the family medicine training programme and a clinical lecturer at the Wellington School of Medicine, Dr Reid is also chairman of the communicable disease control advisory committee of the Department of Health. He has served on the foundation’s health education and scientific committee for the last three years. A Wellington solicitor and Broadcasting Corporation chairman, Mr Hugh Rennie, has been appointed to the lay position on the committee.
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