MB ChB 1999 Auckland; FRACP 2005
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Dr Rinki Murphy
Qualifications
Profile
Rinki is a diabetologist and physician working at Auckland DHB and Counties Manukau Health and in private practice at the Mercy Specialist Centre. She is also a senior lecturer in medicine at the University of Auckland where she has an active role in both teaching and clinical research in diabetes and obesity (>50 published papers in peer-reviewed journals). Rinki has been medical advisor for Diabetes Auckland since 2009.
Rinki has set up the New Zealand national guidelines and database for monogenic diabetes (www.nzssd.org.nz).
Interests
Rinki’s special clinical interests and expertise includes the management of adults and adolescents with:
- obesity and disorders associated with obesity
- including medical supervision of very low calorie diet programme
- diabetes – all aspects of diagnosis and management including insulin pumps
- investigation for genetic etiology of familial atypical diabetes
- management of monogenic diabetes: Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) or maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (due to a mitochondrial genetic disorder)
- metabolic syndrome
- severe insulin resistance
- lipodystrophy
- polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and hirsutism.
Title or Designation
Endocrinologist, Diabetes Specialist
Post-Fellowship Training
PhD in genetics and epigenetics of Diabetes (UK)
Full NZ Registration Date
24 December 1999
Vocational Scope
Internal Medicine
Services
Diabetes | Counties Manukau | Te Whatu Ora
Māngere Health Centre, 6 Waddon Place, Māngere, Auckland
(09) 255 0610
Ōtara Hub, 112 Bairds Road, Ōtara, Auckland
Diabetes Centre | Auckland | Te Toka Tumai | Te Whatu Ora
Greenlane Clinical Centre
(09) 630 9980 (Diabetes Reception)
Endocrinology | Counties Manukau | Te Whatu Ora
Middlemore Hospital
(09) 277 1660
Manukau SuperClinic™
(09) 277 1660
Botany SuperClinic™
(09) 277 1660
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