Rate My Professor Michael Schultz

Professor Michael Schultz is Professor (Gastroenterology) and Head of the Department of Medicine in the Dunedin School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Otago. He studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and underwent specialist training in Manchester, London, and Regensburg, Germany, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2005, he joined the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago as Senior Lecturer and Gastroenterologist in a joint clinical appointment with Te Whatu Ora–Southern. He served as Head of the Department of Medicine from 2016 to 2021, was promoted to Professor in 2018, and since 2023 has been Clinical Director of the Te Whatu Ora Southern Gastroenterology Department. Schultz has been Director of the Gut Health Network, a University of Otago research theme, since 2011, and was elected President of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology in November 2016. His expertise encompasses inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, endoscopy, and host immune responses in intestinal inflammation.