The project, a New
Zealand first titled
Accuracy and Equity in Prostate
Cancer Diagnosis, will be led by the Clinical Lead at
Mātai, Dr Daniel Cornfeld, and is aimed at vastly improving
this country’s current diagnostic pathway in prostate
cancer for patients in the public health system,
particularly for those who live in under-served and remote
communities.
Dr Cornfeld, previously Chief of
Abdominal MRI at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Associate
Professor of Radiology at the Yale University School of
Medicine, works adjunctly as Chief Radiologist at Hauora
Tairāwhiti, Gisborne’s public hospital, and says the
project will chart the efficacy in New Zealand of a model of