Contact Details
- Phone
- 64 3 474 0999
- michael.schultz@otago.ac.nz
University Links
- Position
- Professor and Gastroenterologist
- Department
- Department of Medicine (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- MD PhD
- Research summary
- Intestinal epithelial function in health and disease
- Teaching
- MICN2 and 3: SIS, Systems Integration Course (until 2008)
- MICN2/3: Clinical advisor in Gastroenterology to the Curriculum Development Group
- MICN3: Clinical Skills Tutor (since 2008)
- MICN4: clinical teaching and home tutoring, OSLERs, key topics
- MICN5: intercalated teaching, OSCE
- Station development in 2008
- Lead examiner for 2009
- MICN6: tutorials for trainee interns
- MICN5: Mentor, TPER
- Clinical
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Research
Michael Schultz has a special interest in inflammatory bowel diseases and related disorders both on a clinical and basic research level. As director of the Gut Health Network, a research theme of the University of Otago, he is involved in a variety of projects. Basic science: The research group is located in the Department of Physiology in the laboratory of Associate Professor Grant Butt and works on the role of epithelium in intestinal inflammation with the use of human organoids, animal models and cell cultures. Collaborations with the Department of Microbiology and Immunology support these projects. Professor Schultz is involved in several epidemiological and therapeutic projects involving patients with irritable bowel syndrome, coeliac disease, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.