Born Gisborne 4 Nov 1941 
Educated at Gisborne Boys' High School HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1966 - 1967 Ophthalmology Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1968 - 1969 Registrar, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London 1970 - 1972 Senior Registrar, Moorfields eye Hospital, London 1972 - 1974 Whole-time Ophthalmologist, Mvumi Mission Hospital, Tanzania 1975 Whole-time Ophthalmologist, Wellington Hospital 1976 - 2002 Clinical Head, Ophthalmology Department, Wellington Hospital 1992 - 2000 Post retirement, Thiers has alternated between narrowboating on English canals, and intermittent part-time ophthalmology practice at Masterton Hospital, in the Solomon Islands (2003), and a little private practice in Wellington. photograph courtesy Eye Department archives | 
Healthline
GP
Afterhours
Hospital ED