Sarah Strasser

Sarah Elizabeth Strasser is a general practitioner and academic, and is a professor emerita at the University of Waikato, and Dean of the medical school. She specialises in rural health, training of the rural medical workforce, and accreditation.

Academic career

Strasser describes herself as a third-generation rural GP. She began training as a GP in the UK, where she met her future husband Roger Strasser, an Australian doctor training in anaesthesia and surgery. Roger was offered a position in London, Ontario, so Strasser completed her training there at the University of Western Ontario, under Ian McWhinney.

In 2020 the Strassers were appointed to the University of Waikato, in the hopes that the government could be persuaded to set up a third New Zealand medical school. After a couple of years both Strassers moved to Simon Fraser University as interim vice-deans, to set up a new medical school.

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