Rate My Professor Lily Fraser

Fraser's career spans clinical practice, leadership, and advocacy for health equity. She worked as a General Practitioner and Clinical Director at Turuki Healthcare in Māngere, Auckland, from around 2011, where she mentored medical students, junior doctors, and registrars in a teaching practice. There, she pioneered a kaupapa Māori model of care emphasizing team-based support for patients and whānau, with a strong emphasis on prevention. In 2023, she returned to her Ōtepoti home, taking on the role of Clinical Director for Te Hā o Maru Health and Social Services (Te Kāika), operated by Te Rūnanga o Moeraki, delivering integrated health and social services to Māori, Pasifika, and low-income communities in Otago. A long-term member of Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa (Te ORA) since 2014, she actively participates in Te Akoranga a Māui, the RNZCGP's Māori representative group, providing policy advice, advocacy, and support for Māori registrars pursuing specialist GP training. Her interests include metabolic health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, promoting low-carbohydrate healthy fat nutrition and kai as medicine. She co-authored the publication 'Telehealth as a tool for equity: pros, cons and recommendations' in the New Zealand Medical Journal (2021). In 2023, she received the Distinguished Fellowship from the RNZCGP for outstanding service to general practice, medicine, and community wellbeing, particularly in advancing Māori health equity through local, regional, and national roles. Fraser also chairs her whānau whenua block at Pūrākaunui and participates in Kāi Tahu's Kōtahi Mano Kāika initiative.