Staff profile: Rupa Maitra

(Inside Aotea, February 2011)

Anatomic pathologist

Responsibilities

Diagnosis of histology and cytology specimens.

Most rewarding part of your job

Sweating over diagnostic mysteries and occasionally coming up with an obscure but exciting answer!

How do you most enjoy spending  time outside work

Playing the violin, writing and hanging out with my  husband and daughters in our back garden which is crazy, chaotic and crawling with little decks that my  husband built to negotiate a typically challenging Wellington section.

Health tip

Actively try and figure out a healthy work-life-family balance.

Something your colleagues may not know about you

I have (accidentally) set fire to our kitchen stove several times.