Phillippa Poole

Phillippa Jane Poole is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor and Head of School at the University of Auckland; she was previously head of the medical programme.

Academic career After studying medicine at the University of Auckland, Poole joined the staff, rising to full professor. Poole divides her time between academic duties and being a consultant general physician at Auckland City Hospital. She is a past president of the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand. In 2010 Poole completed a late-career PhD entitled Medical workforce development in New Zealand: insights from a medical programme.

Research Poole's research is focussed on the career choices students make in medical school, and the effect of gender on them. She is also involved with Cochrane reviews of the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Selected works Poole, Phillipa., Stoner, T., Verstappen, A., & Bagg, W. (2016). "Medical students: where have they come from; where are they going?". New Zealand Medical Journal 129 (1435): 59–67. Poole, Phillippa, Boaz Shulruf, Ben Harley, John Monigatti, Mark Barrow, Mary-Jane Reid, Caitlin Prendergast, and Warwick Bagg. (2012). "Shedding light on the decision to retain an interview for medical student selection." The New Zealand Medical Journal 125 (1361). Braatvedt, Claire, Phillippa Poole, Alan Merry, Desmond Gorman, Mary-Jane Reid, and Warwick Bagg. (2014). "Fitness to practice of medical graduates: one programme’s approach." The New Zealand Medical Journal 127 (1405). Eaton, Tam, Pam Young, Wendy Fergusson, Lisa Moodie, Irene Zeng, Fiona O'Kane, Nichola Good, Leanne Rhodes, Phillippa Poole, and John Kolbe. (2009). "Does early pulmonary rehabilitation reduce acute health‐care utilization in COPD patients admitted with an exacerbation? A randomized controlled study." Respirology 14 (2): 230–238.