Associate Professor Dr. William May is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Fiji National University. He acted in the role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Acting Vice-Chancellor and is the former Dean of the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Fiji National University. In 2023 he also acted as the Pro-Vice Chancellor Learning & Teaching for three months.

Dr May graduated with MBBS from the Fiji School of Medicine in 1994. He completed his postgraduate Master’s in Internal Medicine in 2004 and is a registered Specialist Physician with a special interest in cardiology. He attained his Graduate Certificate in Medical Education in 2014.

His areas of interest are Medical Education, health workforce in low-resource settings, and non-communicable disease. He has supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate candidates in Internal Medicine.

He is a Senior Consultant Physician by background and a member of the Fiji Medical & Dental Councils. Dr May has done consultancies in Internal Medicine and Health Professional Education in the Pacific Island countries.

Dr May is a member of the Board of Management of the Fiji Medical and Dental Council, and a Board Member of the Western Pacific Association of Medical Educators (WPAME).

His other Professional affiliations include Associate Member of the Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand, member of the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ), ex-Vice President of the Internal Medicine Organization of the South Pacific Executive Committee (IMOP), and a member of both the Fiji Medical Association and the Fiji College of General practitioners. He is currently an Executive Council member of the Fiji Medical Association.

Since 2017 he has been a member of the Fiji Medical and Dental Council.

In 2014-2015 he was Head of the School of Medical Sciences at the Fiji School of Medicine.

He worked for the Ministry of Health for more than a decade and was deputy Head of Internal Medicine at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva before he joined the Fiji School of Medicine as a Senior Lecturer in 2009 and Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine up to 2014.

From 2007-2008 he worked as a Senior Cardiology Fellow at the Christchurch Public Hospital in New Zealand funded by WHO. Before joining the Fiji School of Medicine, he taught medical students pro bono while working as Chief Medical Officer with the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services.