Dr David Galler

Age: 63.

Two children, Max, 33, and Petra, 28, with partner Judge Ema Aitken.

Graduated from the University of Otago School of Medicine in 1981.

Specialist training in anaesthesia and intensive care.

Career highlights: Clinical director of acute care services at Middlemore Hospital; principal medical adviser to Minister of Health and the Health Ministry’s Director-General; founding board member of the Health Quality Safety Commission; establishment of intensive care service at Samoa’s national hospital focused on children and infants and reversible disease.