Medical Geneticist – Dr Alexa Kidd MBBS, MRCP (UK), MRCGP (UK), MSc

Dr Kidd trained in medicine in London. Her background was mainly in paediatrics but she also completed General Practitioner training before entering a Clinical Genetics training programme in Aberdeen, Scotland. She became fully accredited as a Medical Geneticist, completed her training in November 2000, and worked as a full-time Consultant Medical Geneticist for Central and Southern Regional Genetic Services based in Wellington for nearly nine years. She is now the Consultant Clinical Geneticist for Canterbury Health Laboratories in Christchurch and is a Senior Lecturer at Otago Medical School at the Christchurch campus.

Dr Kidd has had a very broad range of experience within medical genetics. She has particular interests in the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders including learning difficulties autism and psychiatric disorders. She has long standing interest in myotonic dystrophy and rare cancer syndromes and a recent interest in telomere disorders and Perry syndrome. She is an active member of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia and of the British Human Genetic Society.

Dr Kidd is registered with the New Zealand Medical Council as a specialist in Clinical Genetics.

Practice Manager – Jon Campbell, BSc
Mr Campbell provides technical and administrative support for the service.

We can readily provide an interpreter and translation into Japanese but also other languages as required. This will incur a further fee.