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Professor, Department of Medicine
Senior Lecturer, MIHI

Lutz Beckert
MD(Hamburg) FRACP MRCP(UK) FCCP

Email lutz.beckert@cdhb.health.nz

Department of Medicine
University of Otago, Christchurch
PO Box 4345
Christchurch
New Zealand

Current roles

  • Professor, Department of Medicine, Christchurch
  • Respiratory Physician
  • Sleep Physician

Research interests

  • Venous Thrombembolism
  • Respiratory Physiology
  • Sleep medicine
  • Clinical Audits
  • Pleural Disease
  • Reseach into Teaching

MIHI

Contributes to:

  • MICN 401 (4th Year Block Course Marae stay)

Professor Beckert is the convenor of the Introductory Fortnight and joins the Māori Health team on the Block Course at the Marae visits, where his strength lies in organising icebreaker activities and fun games. His teaching interests are in cultural safety, learning methodology and professional development.

Together with Professor Suetonia Palmer, Professor Beckert is the co-convenor of the Clinical Orientation week. Lutz also teaches into the CardioRespiratory – CVPD module.

Together with the MIHI team, Professor Beckert and Professor Suetonia Palmer are also teaching Hauora Māori. The indigenous and non-indigenous teaching team has created a culturally safe environment for Māori, which keeps Māori patient/whānau/communities' voices at the centre of the kaupapa. It provides a shared language for those involved in medical education and health services. This has implication for both teaching and clinical practice, and has resulted in the development of a cohesive and respectful team environment enabling teaching, clinical services and research.

Publications

Burton, G., Kelly, P. T., & Beckert, L. (2026). Reply to ‘The oxygenation benefits provided by high-flow nasal oxygen in bronchoscopy may be underestimated’. Respirology, 31, 321-322. doi: 10.1002/resp.70222 Journal - Research Other

Jenkins, C. R., Martin, A., Chang, C. L., Beasley, R., Wrobel, J. P., McDonald, V. M., … Hancox, R. J., on behalf of the PACE Investigators, including Dummer, J., Brockway, B., Fingleton, J., & Beckert, L. (2026). Bisoprolol to prevent adverse cardiac events (PACE) in COPD: A multicentre, double-blind, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 14(3), 203-214. doi: 10.1016/s2213-2600(25)00390-x Journal - Research Article

Hancox, R. J., Beasley, R., Beckert, L., Chan, A., Corna, N., Fingleton, J., … Manderson, Z., … Turner, J. (2025). Review of the New Zealand Asthma and Respiratory Foundation’s New Zealand Adolescent and Adult Asthma guidelines. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1617), 85-99. doi: 10.26635/6965.7061 Journal - Research Other

Landers, A., Pitama, S., Green, S., & Beckert, L. (2025). Participant perspectives on end-of-life health care services for chronic lung disease. Patient Education & Counseling, 137(Suppl. 1), 108868. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2025.108868 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Newman, N., Wells, J. M., McKenzie, F., Wilkinson, T., Dean, J., Doogue, M., & Beckert, L. (2025). Consent to medical student teaching: An observational, cross-sectional study exploring the patient view. Proceedings of the 10th International Clinical Skills Conference (ICSC). (pp. 31). Retrieved from https://internationalclinicalskillsconference.com Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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