Drew Henderson

Nephrologist and Medical Director for Cancer, Chronic Conditions and Radiology | Waikato Hospital

Drew is a Nephrologist at Waikato Hospital. He is also Medical Director for Cancer, Chronic Conditions and Radiology. Prior to working at Waikato he was Clinical Lead for Renal Medicine and Electronic Patient Records at NHS Tayside, Dundee, Scotland and prior to this helped establish Hawkes Bay Hospital renal service where he worked as a single handed nephrologist between 2007 and 2011.
He is currently the NZ Chapter Chair of the ANZSN and has been a member of council for 3 years. He is a member of the NZ National Renal Transplant Service strategic group and National Renal Advisory Board. His interests include variation and equity in healthcare, quality improvement and IT. He is currently involved with whole of health system work to reduce health inequalities in the Waikato focussing particularly on improving care pathways and outcomes for Maori patients with kidney disease and is working with ANZDATA to understand centre level variation in outcomes across NZ for dialysis patients. He has previously help developed pilot projects to improve primary care management of early stage kidney disease in high risk populations.