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Contact Details

Phone
+64 4 832 3124
Email
ben.gray@otago.ac.nz
Position
Associate Professor
Department
Department of Primary Health Care (Wellington)
Qualifications
MB ChB FRNZCGP
Research summary
Cross cultural care, primary care models of care

Research

Ben Gray joined the Department in 2006 as a senior lecturer in General Practice. He is an Otago graduate from the first class at the Wellington Clinical School. He has worked as a GP for more than 30 years first in Waitara Taranaki and most recently at Newtown Union Health Service (NUHS). Waitara had a significant Māori population and NUHS has a very diverse population with significant numbers of refugees from many parts of the world. The practice has developed significant strengths in long term condition management, cross cultural care and interprofessional practice. He completed a Masters in Bioethics and Health Law May 2014 with a dissertation titled “How does the concept of cultural competence affect the practice of bioethics and health law”. He is active in the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and convened the AABHL conference in Wellington in 2015 “Working with Diversity”.

Publications

Gray, B., & Smith, H. (2026). Tikanga Māori as a relational framework for cultural change in Aotearoa New Zealand. Challenges, 17, 18. doi: 10.3390/challe17020018 Journal - Research Other

Gray, B., & McKinlay, E. (2026). Workplace learning is not valued or sufficiently available. Proceedings of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) Conference: Weaving Connection Nau te routou, naku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi. 786. Retrieved from https://www.anzahpe.org Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Gray, B. (2026). Patient consent is a barrier to training junior doctors on the job: A rule change is needed. The Conversation. doi: 10.64628/AA.nve9ynjcd Journal - Research Other

Gray, B. (2025). Consent for teaching: How to learn to care for people who lack capacity. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from https://aabhl2025.w.events4you.currinda.com Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Gray, B. (2025, July). What is the use of a medical record? Verbal presentation at the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) Conference for General Practice: GP25, Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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