Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 21 650 126
- lik.loh@otago.ac.nz
- Position
- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Department
- Department of General Practice and Rural Health (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- MB ChB MBHL FRNZCGP MRCP(UK) PhD PGCertPH PGCertMSM
- Research summary
- Health services research, mixed methods research
- Teaching
- I have recently been in shared supervisory roles to nurse practitioner interns and RNZCGP registrars
- Memberships
Clinical governance – I have been part of advisory and credentialing committees for the Southern DHB and the South Canterbury DHB
- Clinical
Clinical governance – I have joined advisory committees to the Southern DHB, and currently serve as Chief Medical Officer (Primary Care) for the South Canterbury DHB.
I am a general practitioner, with a special interest in musculoskeletal medicine. I have an auxiliary role as medical officer with the SCDHB persistent pain team.
- Family medicine
- Mental illness
- Addiction
- Medical ethics in relation to palliative care
- Vocational rehabilitation
- Clinical governance
- Social medicine
- Musculoskeletal medicine
Research
I am interested in the primary care – secondary care interface, in particular with regards to vulnerable and marginalised populations.
Publications
Loh, L., Trevallyan, S., Main, S., Revell, L., Patton, V., & Ojo, A. (2015). The case for a systematic policy approach to free primary health care for vulnerable groups in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal, 128(1424). Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Loh, L., Jaye, C., Dovey, S., Lloyd, H., & Rowe, J. (2015). Dunedin's free clinic: An exploration of its model of care using case study methodology. Journal of Primary Health Care, 7(2), 145-152.
Loh, L., & Dovey, S. (2015). Who attends Dunedin's free clinic? A study of patients facing cost barriers to primary health care access. Journal of Primary Health Care, 7(1), 16-23.
Loh, L., Jaye, C., & Dovey, S. (2015). Why do patients attend Dunedin's free clinic? An audit of general practice activity using the ICPC-2 classification system. New Zealand Medical Journal, 128(1410). Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Dovey, S. M., Loh, L. W., & Cunningham, W. K. (2011). Leveraging information from New Zealand statistical data: A first step to wisdom in transforming unmet need for general practice services [Editorial]. New Zealand Medical Journal, 124(1334). Retrieved from http://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal/124-1334/4665/content.pdf
Loh, L., & Dovey, S. (2015). Who attends Dunedin's free clinic? A study of patients facing cost barriers to primary health care access. Journal of Primary Health Care, 7(1), 16-23.
Journal - Research Article
Loh, L., Jaye, C., & Dovey, S. (2015). Why do patients attend Dunedin's free clinic? An audit of general practice activity using the ICPC-2 classification system. New Zealand Medical Journal, 128(1410). Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Article
Loh, L., Jaye, C., Dovey, S., Lloyd, H., & Rowe, J. (2015). Dunedin's free clinic: An exploration of its model of care using case study methodology. Journal of Primary Health Care, 7(2), 145-152.
Journal - Research Article
Loh, L., Trevallyan, S., Main, S., Revell, L., Patton, V., & Ojo, A. (2015). The case for a systematic policy approach to free primary health care for vulnerable groups in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal, 128(1424). Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Other
Dovey, S. M., Loh, L. W., & Cunningham, W. K. (2011). Leveraging information from New Zealand statistical data: A first step to wisdom in transforming unmet need for general practice services [Editorial]. New Zealand Medical Journal, 124(1334). Retrieved from http://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal/124-1334/4665/content.pdf
Journal - Research Other