Wall of Fame

Russell Alan Wright (Alan)

Alan attended King’s High School from 1973 to 1977. In 1977, Alan was Dux of the School and winner of the King’s High School Old Boys’ Prize for All-Round Merit. He also won the Special Prize for Form 6 Mathematics and Science and gained General Excellence in Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and English. He was a strong member of the King’s Debating Team in 1976.

After leaving King’s, Alan attended the University of Otago, where he graduated MB ChB in 1983. From 1985 to 1991, he undertook Internal medicine and neurology training at the Dunedin Public Hospital. Based on his work from 1991 to 1993, he gained a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree with distinction at the University of Otago. From 1993 to 1994, he had a Peripheral Nerve Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in the USA.

Alan’s current position is as a Consultant Neurologist at Marinoto Clinic, Dunedin. He is also a Consultant Neurologist at the Dunedin Public Hospital and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago. Alan’s expertise encompasses a broad range of neurological diseases, with interests in headache, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease. His practice involves all areas of adult neurology.

In 1994, he was an Australasian Registrar at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. Here, he completed the prescribed postgraduate specialist training programme in internal adult or internal paediatric medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, FRACP.

From 1995 to 1998, he had Neurology Fellowships at the Mayo Clinic, USA (involving movement disorders, cognitive neurology, EMG, stroke, multiple sclerosis, etc.)

Alan is a member of the Neurological Association of New Zealand, the American Academy of Neurology, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists, the Association of British Neurologists, the Peripheral Nerve Society, and the Movement Disorder Society. He received a Fulbright and a Nuffield Travel Scholarship from the American Academy of Neurology, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists, the Association of British Neurologists, the Peripheral Nerve Society, and the Movement Disorder Society.