Dr Alex Chapman is the Clinical Director for Medicine at North Shore and Waitakere hospitals. He is an experienced General and Respiratory Physician, qualifying in 1997 in the UK and moving to New Zealand in 2010 following a 4 year period as a Respiratory Consultant in the NHS. He has Southern Cross Affiliation but welcomes referrals from all sources.
Alex has wide interests, including difficult asthma, smoking related disorders, respiratory infection, cancer, interstitial and occupational lung disease and sports physiology. He has always retained his general acute medical expertise throughout a busy career within hospital medicine.
Where a diagnosis is unclear Alex is experienced at utilising advanced diagnostic techniques such as thoracic ultrasound, bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound guided biopsies and cardiopulmonary exercise testing. He is a skilled interventionalist and ran the teaching programme for chest drain insertion at the hospital for 10 years. This was a unique programme for NZ, training a generation of doctors and improving safety within the hospitals.
Alex enjoys seeing professional and amateur athletes who have sports related medical respiratory and chest symptoms and was the team doctor for New Zealand's top professional road cycling team Bolton Equities Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy.
Alex currently runs his private consultations from 181 Shakespeare Road, Milford and is supported by an efficient administrative team. He is supported by a Senior Consultant pharmacist who will provide accurate medical reconciliation for our complex patients and communicate this to all caregivers and specialists involved. Alex can provide oversight of the General Medical aspects of Care.
"Of paramount importance is my interest in people. A patient orientated approach has always guided my management decisions."
