Waikato Respiratory Services

Dr Janice Wong graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1995 and carried out most of her post-graduate training in New Zealand. She became a respiratory and general physician in 2004 and her interests include airway diseases, lung cancer, bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound and chronic cough.

Dr Rain Shafuddin completed his under-graduate study at the University of Southampton, UK in 2007 and came to New Zealand for his ongoing medical training. He obtained his PhD qualification at the University of Otago in 2016 and completed his specialist training at Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne in 2019. Rain has special interests in COPD, bronchiectasis, pleural diseases, lung cancer, bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound.

Dr Ayan Sabih graduated from AKU Medical College before moving to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2014. He completed his postgraduate specialist training in 2023 and currently works as a Respiratory and Sleep Medicine specialist at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton. Ayan's clinical interests include general respiratory conditions, airway diseases (Asthma/COPD), chronic cough, sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).

Specialising In:

• General Respiratory Conditions
• Chronic cough
• Asthma, COPD
• Bronchiectasis
• Lung Cancer
• Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
• Bronchoscopy including endobronchial ultrasound

Urgent appointments available for suspected lung cancers