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Auckland Medical History Society Founders' Lecture - Sir William Liley, the father of fetal medicine
Peter is Emeritus Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in The University of Auckland. He graduated MB ChB in Auckland in 1975 and after completing his Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Part 1 MRCOG at National Women’s Hospital. He completed his postgraduate training in the United Kingdom studying for his Doctor of Medicine in the University of Bristol where he completed a thesis on novel forms of Doppler waveform analysis in fetal growth restriction.
In 1987 Peter returned to take up a Senior Lecturer’s position in the Wellington School of Medicine and during that time set up the Maternal Fetal Medicine unit there, which was a model for New Zealand. In 1998, he was appointed to the Chair of Maternal Fetal Medicine in The University of Auckland at National Women’s. He retired from The University of Auckland in 2023, but continues to conduct research and supervise students undertaking honours projects. Along with 4 other doctors, he was part of a not-for-profit organization which enabled mifepristone, an important medicine in women’s health, to be available in New Zealand.
In collaboration with others, Peter has published over 200 papers in the areas of fetal physiology, maternal health in pregnancy, prenatal screening and quality improvement.
For two periods over ten years he was the chair of the RANZCOG training accreditation committee in New Zealand, a RANZCOG councilor and led ultrasound teaching for the College and the Pacific Society of Reproductive Health for which he received the volunteer of the year award from the Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine in 2012. He held a 5-year consultancy with the UNFPA to assist in the development of maternal fetal medicine in Mongolia.
Peter has a Distinguished Service award from RANZCOG, is a corecipient of the Beaven Medal from Health Research Council of New Zealand; he has a Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence award, and the President’s Medal from Pacific Society of Reproductive Health.
