INVITED SPEAKERS

Invited Speakers

Arthur Klap

Director of Sports Impact Ltd

Arthur has an extensive back ground in event management and has organised more than 500 events over 32 years. These include international events such as the ITU Triathlon World Championships in 1994 and 2003, the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2006, the ISF Snowboard Junior World Championships, the ITU Aquathlon World Championships 2003 and the WMRA World Mountain Running Trophy 2005. He has also organised other events as varied as the Wellington Wind Festival, outdoor concerts and underground skateboard tours.

Arthur is currently working on the Winter Games NZ to be held in 2009 in Otago. He is also chairman of BikeNZ. In this year’s New Year’s honours Arthur was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to recreation and sport.

In 2007 Arthur was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had a radical prostatectomy in July. Subsequently he became the country’s highest fund raiser for Movember

Les Toop

Les Toop is Professor of General Practice and head of the Department of Public Health and General Practice in Christchurch. Les has been in part time general practice in south east Christchurch for 21 years. Trained in Bristol and Edinburgh, he has spent most of his working life in New Zealand. Les has a longstanding interest in all aspects of general practice education, in prescribing research and in promoting professionalism / resisting external influence on the clinical encounter, to which end he is a strong proponent of professional education and a strong opponent of pay for performance and misleading pharmaceutical promotion. Les leads the clinical education programme at Pegasus Health / Partnership Health and is a board member of both organisations.

Margaret Austin

Margaret Austin was elected to Parliament in 1984. Formerly she was a Science Teacher and Education Administrator and held a Teaching Fellowship at Canterbury University in 1970 and a Commonwealth Education Fellowship in London in 1980. As an educator she was active in science curriculum development, assessment and teacher education. She was involved in the establishment of the NZ Science Teachers Association and the NZ Educational Administration Society.

In Parliament she sat on the Communications and Road Safety Committee and Chaired the Education and Science Committee. Two years as Senior Government Whip preceded election to Cabine with the portfolios of Research Science and Technology, Internal Affairs, Arts and Culture and Civil Defence. She was awarded the Royal Society silver medal in 1994 for services to science education and administration. From 1991 to 1996 her Portfolio responsibilities were Education and Research Science and Technology.

Margaret was awarded the MNZM in the Queens Birthday Honours in 1997, made a Companion of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management in 2003 and was awarded the CNZM in the New Year Honours 2008.

Since leaving Parliament at the end of 1996 she has Chaired two Education Inquiries at the direction of the Minister of Education. She was Chancellor of Lincoln University 1999-2005, Chaired the National Commission for UNESCO NZ 1999-2006, was inaugural member and chair of Osteoporosis NZ and chaired the Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Christchurch 1997 – 2007. She was elected to the Council of the Royal Society of NZ in 2006 and as a Vice-President has responsibility for the Science Education and Technology portfolios and since 2005 has chaired the Community Advisory Board for Pegasus Health.

Ron Paterson

Ron Paterson was appointed New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner in 2000. He played a key role in the development of the New Zealand Code of Patients’ Rights in 1996. Ron has lectured and published on a wide range of topics in health law, ethics and policy, and has been a leading voice in New Zealand debates on these issues over the past decade. He is co-editor of the textbook Medical Law in New Zealand (2006).

Tana Fishman FRNZCGP, MS, BS

Dr. Tana Fishman is Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, School of Population Health, University of Auckland. She oversees community-based education and coordinates > 800 student attachments during the academic year. In addition, she is Chair of the Board of Education, Royal New Zealand College of General Practice. Dr. Fishman practices along with Professor Bruce Arroll, at the Greenstone Family Clinic in Manurewa. The clinic is an access-funded practice designed to care for the people of Manurewa and serve as a Centre of Excellence for teaching, training and learning across all undergraduate medical years as well as post graduate years.

Tony Townsend

Tony has been in general practice for 35 years. Most of this has been in clinical practice but he spent 7 years in academic general practice in the United Arab Emirates. He has been involved in teaching from the late 1970’s and has published papers on teaching and other areas of general practice research. For the last 5 years he has edited the NZ Family Physician. Tony is a strong advocate for general practice and is keen to promote the principles that define this profession.

Robin Gauld

Robin Gauld is Associate Professor of Health Policy, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, where he teaches on the postgraduate public health and health management degree programmes. He is author of over 70 books, chapters and journal articles that reflect his research interests. Presently, these are in primary care reform and organisation, developed East Asia’s health systems, health information technology, international health policy trends, and waiting list policy. His books include Revolving Doors: New Zealand’s Health Reforms (2001); Continuity Amid Chaos: Health Care Management and Delivery in New Zealand (2003); Comparative Health Policy in the Asia Pacific (2005); Dangerous Enthusiams: E-Government, Computer Failure and Information System Development (2006); Health Systems in Europe and Asia (2008); and the forthcoming The New Health Policy: Global Patterns, National Agendas (2009).

John Campbell

John Campbell is chair of the Medical Council of New Zealand. He is Professor of Geriatric Medicine in the Dunedin School of Medicine and a consultant physician at Dunedin Hospital. He was Dean of the Otago Medical School from 1995 until 2005 and has a long standing interest in undergraduate and post graduate education and fitness to practise.

 

Sandra Coney

Sandra Coney is the Chair of Parks and Heritage at the Auckland Regional Council. She was until 2003 the executive director of Women’s Health Action, a women’s health consumer advocacy organisation. She continues to work on issues of health consumers’ rights, consumer participation and population screening. She has served on a large number of health committees, and was the consumer representative on the reference group that developed the New Zealand Health Strategy. She is currently a board member of the National Centre for Health and Social Ethics and chair of the Pharmac Consumer Advisory Committee. She recently completed a systematic review for the New Zealand Guidelines Group on consumer participation in the health sector and has been a member of the planning committee working towards a national health consumer body for New Zealand. A writer, she has published a number of books on health, including The Menopause Industry.

Tony Dowell

Tony Dowell is a General Practitioner in Wellington and Professor of Primary Health Care and General Practice at the University of Otago (Wellington). He has worked in general practice and primary care in New Zealand, the U.K. and Africa. He has research interests in communication patterns in the consultation and mental health issues in primary care.

 

Pete Foley

Dr Foley has been Chairman of the New Zealand Medical Association since May 2007. Prior to this he chaired the NZMA’s GP Council for four years. He demonstrated strong support for unity of political representation as initial chair of the General Practice Leaders’ Forum.

Dr Foley is a graduate of Otago University (B.Sc, majoring in biochemistry, organic chemistry, and genetics) and the Otago Medical School. His interest in medical politics started young as he was an early president of the New Zealand Medical Students’ Association.

After working in Christchurch until 1983, he moved to general practice in Hawkes Bay, where he later served two years on the Hawkes Bay DHB Hospital Advisory Committee. He was founding director of City Medical --private/public partnership model for 24/7 primary care. He is married to Jill and they have four children.

Dee Mangin

Dr Dee Mangin is a General Practitioner in Christchurch. She is also a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Primary Care Research Group in the Department of General Practice at the Christchurch School of Medicine. She qualified in Medicine at Otago University and has postgraduate training in both general practice and public health. She has been involved in teaching and research to underpin rational clinical practice for many years, lecturing and publishing on a range of topics. These span generation of clinical evidence using randomised controlled trials, innovative models of general practice care, effective and discriminatory incorporation of evidence into practice and the harms of misleading pharmaceutical company promotion to prescribers and consumers.

Ros Rowarth

Ros trained in the UK and NZ as a midwife and nurse, and for the past 18 years has been working full time as a practice nurse in a busy urban General Practice in Rotorua.

She is a director of the IPA, the Rotorua General Practice Group, and has contributed to the quality and education committees and the practice nurse advisory group within RGPG.

She is a member of the editorial committee of the New Zealand College of Practice Nurses Journal, and has been an assessor for the Royal New Zealand College of General Practice Cornerstone Programme since its inception.

She has been a member of the General Practice Nursing Alliance for several years and in August 2007 was elected chair. She is a member of the IPAC executive and represents the GPNA on the General Practice Leaders Forum . She believes the GPNA offers both an important nursing perspective, but also a demonstrates to the Forum a commitment to the opportunities offered by Organised General Practice.

 

Kevin Morris

Dr Morris has worked as a medical advisor to the Accident Compensation Corporation since 1992. He has been the Corporate Medical Advisor based in Wellington since 1998 and the Director of Clinical Services from 2006. He has extensive experience in the area of compensation medicine and has been a part of the developments related to medical misadventure now called treatment injury. He is recognised as New Zealand’s foremost authority in the field of impairment evaluation.

Dr Morris has a particular interest in the relationship between health, employment status and compensation systems. He has a background in general practice medicine and obstetrics, occupational medicine, computer science and medical administration. Before joining the ACC, Dr Morris was a principal in a group general practice, the principal doctor of one of New Zealand’s first after-hours medical clinics and a consultant with a technology company developing software for medical practice management systems. Most recently he has completed a Masters in Public Policy at the School of Government, Victoria University Wellington. His research paper looked at the impact of lump sum compensation for non-economic loss on rehabilitation outcomes.

Bev O’Keefe (IPAC Chair)

For the past 18 months, Bev has been Chair of both of IPAC and the General Practice Leaders Forum (GPLF). This has necessitated a reduction in her hours as a GP in Rotorua where she has been in her own practice for the past 27 years. 

During her time as IPAC Chair, she has remained a firm and vocal advocate for the right of general practice to retain some control over both its clinical and business activities, in the interests of preserving high quality services.

Prior to becoming Chair of IPAC, Bev was the immediate past chair of the Rotorua General Practice Group IPA, and believes such networks of organised general practice are key to the future delivery of primary health care. Close involvement with the Rotorua community over many years motivated Bev to establish one of NZ’s first comprehensive secondary school general practice clinics, a model now widely adopted throughout Rotorua and in many parts of the country.

Dr Peter Moodie (Bsc, MBChB, FRNZCGP) – Medical Director

Peter joined PHARMAC as Medical Director in October 1999 and he still maintains a part time clinical practice.

As part of his role as Medical Director Peter has taken a particular interest in the issues relating to the prioritisation of high cost medicines, and has a number of publications relating to the practical implications of this.

Prior to joining PHARMAC Peter was in full time primary care with particular interests in the quality and cost effective use of resources including medicines.  His practice was one of the first in the country to explore capitation based funding systems for primary care.   Peter has been involved with primary care computerisation in both his practice and with PHARMAC.

Susan Dovey

Susan Dovey is an Associate Professor in the Dunedin School of Medicine and Advisor to the RNZCGP Chief Executive. She has been researching patient safety in primary care settings since 1999 and sits on a WHO patient safety working group. Her main concern is to develop primary care research locally, nationally, and internationally. Patient safety is her particular research interest.

Randall Oates M.D.

Randall Oates, M.D., is a family physician and a member of the AAFP.

He founded and continues to be the CEO of a software company called DOCS, Inc., whose primary product is SOAPware, a low cost electronic health record (EHR) system that has more installed physician practices than any other brand or product in the US. In fact, SOAPware is used in 6,000 clinics in 50 states and 22 foreign countries.

He is widely respected within the field for his dedication to the ongoing development of health information technology designed for the needs of small medical practices in family medicine and primary care. Dr Oates has also been focused on assisting medical practices transition from older to newer models. He has been very much a part of the whole change management process at literally thousands of practices.

David V. Garrett, MHA

In his role with TransforMED as a Practice Enhancement Facilitator, David assists family practices with implementing the TransforMED Model of Care.  He has been one of three facilitators implementing this model at 18 practices around the United States of America as part of the TransforMED National Demonstration Project which began in July of 2006.  TransforMED's facilitators are completing this project to create specific changes in family practices and to assess the effectiveness of the methods used for doing so.

David's professional career has been a progression of healthcare management positions which have allowed him to experience the delivery of healthcare in various settings. He has significant experience in the healthcare insurance industry, clinic operations, healthcare facility design and efficiency, and healthcare financial management. David is also very skilled in human resources and information technology management.

David is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio and a graduate of Ohio University with a BS in Zoology / Pre-Physical Therapy.  He also holds a Masters in Healthcare Administration from Ohio University.

John Wellingham

John is interested in developing systems that enable an ordinary practitioner to deliver extraordinary results. His passion is to achieve effective and efficient team based processes that support high quality patient centred and evidence based care of long term conditions, whilst also enabling individual clinicians to handle complex acute conditions.

He is a partner in the one stop health and wellness Apollo clinic on Auckland’s North Shore and also works 2 half days a week in a Maori PHO and in a Maori clinic. Over the last decade he has been closely involved in the design and establishment of Cornerstone, visiting England in 2006 on behalf of the RNZCGP to review the progress of the Quality Outcomes Framework, and taking on the role of Chair of the RNZCGP Board of Quality in 2007.

His past experience includes positions as Medical Director for Chronic Care in Counties Manukau DHB and Primary Care Advisor in Waitemata DHB. In 2005 he received a WHO fellowship to review England and Kaiser Permanente’s approaches to increasing consumer and patient engagement in early intervention approaches to reducing the incidence and impact of chronic conditions. He is currently  an Independent Director of Healthcare of New Zealand, which provides home based services for people with disabilities.

John believes our challenge is to demonstrate and continually improve the contribution we make to the primary care sector, through general practice, to enhancing health outcomes and reducing inequalities. John is married, with two daughters, and enjoys sailing, skiing and garden design.

Steve Lillis

Present Position: Senior Lecturer in General Practice, Waikato Clinical School

Steven Lillis is Senior Lecturer in General Practice at the Waikato Clinical School, Chair of the Board of Assessment for the RNZCGP and has been a Pinnacle board member for seven years. He graduated from the University of Auckland, is a Fellow of the RNZCGP and has a Masters of General Practice from Otago University. His academic interests are safety of medical care, medical education and assessment in education.

Denise Ward

Present position: General Manager, Knowledge Management, Pinnacle Group Ltd
Qualifications:    B Soc Sc (Hons, Health Policy & Development)

Denise’s interest and career in quality health care spans 12 years, the last five of these in the primary sector. Employed by Pinnacle Group Ltd in 2003 to manage their quality programme, she now heads the organisation's Knowledge Management Team. Pinnacle encompasses one of the largest primary care provider networks in New Zealand, giving support to general practice teams and Primary Health Organisations throughout the central North Island. Denise has a particular interest in advancing the patient safety agenda and in improving the quality and accessibility of information available to the sector.

Phil Driver

Dr Phil Driver is one of the founders and developers of the multi-stakeholder strategic planning system known as OpenStrategy, a system which can be adopted by medical-sector stakeholders to collaboratively develop strategies in the complex arena of the NZ health system.  Phil and his colleagues developed OpenStrategy to assist multi-stakeholder groups like: the NZ mussel industry to develop a comprehensive technology strategy; Norfolk County Council and 80 other agencies (England) to develop a major Children and Young Person's strategy; and a group of 14 partnerships in Monmouthshire (Wales) to develop a suite of SubStrategies relating to transport, the environment, economic development and leisure activities for older people.  Phil has extensive experience in the management of science and technology as well as in the rapidly developing fields of multi-organisational working, soft-systems thinking, applying the "wisdom of crowds" to complex real-world problems, and e-democracy.

Kate Moodabe

Kate, originally a clinical pharmacist, has been working for ProCare Health Ltd for 6 years in a range of leadership and project manager roles. She has a keen interest in Mental Health and was involved in the implementation of the Mental Health Programme and the design, development and implementation of the Post Natal Depression Screening Programme. She is currently acting as Executive Officer for ProCare Network Manukau, a PHO serving a population of approx 240,000.

David Codyre

David is a psychiatrist with 24 years experience working in the mental heath sector in New Zealand in a range of clinical and leadership roles.  He has spent the past 7 years leading development of a primary mental health programme within ProCare, a large GP organisation serving 650,000 Aucklanders.


 

David Ayling & Mo Harte

Mo Harte and Dave Ayling are part of the Youth Health Service.  This health service provides young people with a free primary health care service and is delivered out of the Youth One Stop Shop in Palmerston North.

 

Robin Judkins

Robin Judkins is 57 with two daughters and lives in Sumner, Christchurch.

Since 1980 Robin has produced 78 sports events through his company Ironman Productions Ltd. These events have included 10 Fresh-Up Iron man contests, 24 Speight’s Coast to Coasts, the Xerox Challenge and 2 LWR Thermatech Adventure Festivals.

There have been 68 films made of Robin’s events ranging in length from 12 minute items to 90 minute features. Robin has appeared alongside characters such as David Frost and David Bellamy and the films have been shown throughout the world. Several have won awards.

The Fresh-Up Iron Man Television commercial which was produced by Rialto Advertising and filmed by Silverscreen Productions from an idea by Robin Judkins won a Golden Lion award at the Cannes Festival in 1986. This TVC ran for 5 years.

Robin has a high profile in the media through his organization and the promotion of events and has received many awards in this area.

The Speight’s Coast to Coast won the 1990 New Zealand Tourism Award for best Special Event and The Most Outstanding Event Promotion Award at the 1991 Canterbury Sportsman of the Year. Robin Judkins was a finalist in the 1991 New Zealand Sportsman of the Year  Awards in the Best Administrator category for his organization of the Xerox Challenge. Robin Judkins was Canterbury Sports Personality of the Year in 1993 and won the 1994 Outstanding Achievement Award from the New Zealand Events industry. In 1999 he won Best Promoter, Best Event and best Sponsorship in the Sportzhub Multisport Awards. In 2000 he won best Sponsor in the Sportzhub Multisport Awards.

In 2001 he was a finalist in the Canterbury Sportsman of the Year awards for Best Promotion and in 2002 he was a finalist in the Canterbury Entrepreneur of the Year awards. In 2006 he was a finalist in the Canterbury Conservation Awards and the Champion Canterbury Awards, winning Champion Host (small enterprise) and the Supreme Award (small enterprise).

Robin has also been Managing Director of Ohau Ski Area Ltd (1986 and 1987) and a member of the Winter Olympics Feasibility Study Committee (1987 – 1988).

Robin’s memoir “Mad Dogs” was published in 1999 and the Sunday Star Times named it “Best Sports Book of 1999” while the Dominion called it “Barry Crump on Speed”.

Rod Jackson

Rod Jackson is Professor of Epidemiology and Head of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is medically trained, has a PhD in Epidemiology and is a member of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine. He teaches epidemiology and evidence-based health care to undergraduates and postgraduates. His main research interest for over 25 years has been the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases. He is one of the architects of New Zealand risk-based clinical guidelines for managing CVD risk.

Tony Cooke

Tony Cooke is the Chief Information Officer at Hutt Valley District Health Board, which has 2000 staff and serves a population of 140,000 in the Wellington Region.  He has 25 years experience in ICT, including 15 years in health.

Tony is a member of HISAC, the National DHB CIOs group, the DHB CEO Information Group and the Government Interoperability Framework Committee.  He is also chair of the HISO Expert Advisory Committee for the Authentication and Security Framework which is preparing an all-of-sector security standard.

Harry Pert 

Harry Pert is a GP in Rotorua.

He has been involved with IPAs since the early 1990s, with the local Rotorua IPA - the Rotorua General Practice Group and as a member of the IPAC executive.

He is interested in improving quality through better organisation and management of general practice and is a firm believer in the opportunities for significantly improved health outcomes through Organised General Practice.

He is a member of HISAC, the Health Information Strategy Action Committee, and a joint clinical lead for the qi4gp project – quality and information for general practice. He is a member of the Board of Quality of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners

Cathy O’Malley

Since 1995 Cathy O’Malley has been the CEO of the Wellington IPA and of MATPRO LTD. Since the development of Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) in 2002, WIPA has expanded it’s significant management capacity locally and also through a joint venture in the MidCentral DHB region formed Compass Health.  Through contractual arrangements, Cathy now acts as CEO for 8 lower north island PHOs.

Cathy has worked in management roles the health sector since 1992. Prior to that Cathy spent 10 years working in the voluntary sector, for the YMCA and as a management consultant.

Cathy was recently appointed to the Executive Management Team of the Capital and Coast District Health Board.

Cathy has 4 children and has a passion for gardening.

Dr David Rankin

Dr Rankin obtained his medical degree from Otago University in 1982.

Having worked in rural General Practice in Victoria for four years, he completed both a Masters in Health Administration and Masters in Public Health at Loma Linda University in Southern California before returning to Australia and then moving to New Zealand.

David was the CEO of the Auckland Adventist Hospital – a private surgical hospital, for 6 years before moving to Wellington as the General Manager – Health Service Purchasing with the Accident Compensation Corporation.

For the past 18 months he has been Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Social Development, providing medical leadership in the ministry’s major reform of the Sickness and Invalid’s Benefit system.  He is now leading a project aimed at providing health assessments to all children and young people coming into the care of the state.

David is Chairman of the New Zealand Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO), a member of the Health Information Strategic Action Group (HISAC) and member of the Council of Medical Colleges.  He is President of the New Zealand Institute of Health Management, and Vice President of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators.

David Nixon

I am a GP in Masterton and have been for the last 8 years.
I am currently chairperson for the Wairarapa Diabetes Advisory Group, Board member for the Wairarapa Community PHO and Clinical Leader for the Wairarapa Long Term Conditions Project.

 

Kupa Kupa

Kupa's ancestary is Tokelau and his family came to NZ while still young.  He has worked for Tumai mo te Iwi since 2005 as the Pacific Project Manager and the Team Leader for Wellness Services. His health background includes general nursing with a special interest in Mental Health.   Kupa has implemented several projects with a Pacific focus and advised on Pacific development for Tumai PHO and is called on to support Pacific development within other PHOs.  The Wellness Services he managers are Health promotion, HEHA, and Health Advocacy.

John McMenamin

John McMenamin is a Wanganui GP and Clinical Director of Whanganui Regional Primary Health Organisation.  He has been active in the development of primary care support services for Wanganui regional general practices and has worked with GP colleagues and local counsellors in the development of a primary care counselling and social work service. With the inaugural service team leader Barbara Charuk, he is presenting the Wanganui early intervention mental health model which has placed counsellors and social workers in GP practices supported by an extended team including high need nursing and community mental health liaison.

Paul Roseman

Senior Manager – Design & Development
ProCare Health Limited
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Paul Roseman is a qualified pharmacist who has worked clinically in hospitals in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom.  Since 1996 Paul has worked with groups of New Zealand General Practices to improve the quality of care provided.  During the last 12 years Paul has been involved in the development and implementation of over 40 different clinical programmes.  Currently Paul is the Senior Manager in charge of designing and developing new clinical programmes within ProCare Health Limited and its network of GPs providing care to 650,000 patients.  The scope of Paul’s department includes research, concept and business case development, pilot projects and any associated software developments.  Paul’s department is increasingly focused on systematic approaches to delivering primary care through general practice, trying to minimise the enormous effort that is usually needed to produce sustained change in a large and independent general practitioner workforce.

Paul Abernethy

Paul started his career in health training as a nurse under the hospital system in the 1970s.  He progressed up to the role of Charge Nurse, working between the mental health and emergency services in the Crisis Team at Christchurch Hospital.  In 1991, Paul participated in the “Transitions” programme run by the Health Services Management Development Unit, offering health professionals an opportunity move into management roles.  Paul then went on to hold a number of project and operational management roles, culminating in a stint with the Southern RHA, where he was the Health Needs and Policy manager, responsible for purchasing hospital based services.  After this he went on to work for the Clinical Training Agency and then took up a project role with Pegasus Health. 

Over the past eight years, Paul has held a number of senior roles within Pegasus Health, working with practice teams to implement the acute demand initiatives.   During this time Paul has travelled to Australia, Canada and the US, networking with agencies involved in the delivery of home based acute care.

In his current role as Manager, Patient Services he has had a key role in the development and roll out of the newly contracted acute demand services as well as oversight of the 24 Hour Surgery.

Paul holds registrations in psychiatric and general Obstetric nursing and a BA (Psych)

David Jones

David Jones is a senior manager with Pegasus Health and has the interesting and somewhat daunting title of Manager GP Futures. David began his career in timber & forestry was operations director of a major UK timber company before taking up a position as a senior hospital manager in the NHS (UK). In 1996 he moved to Bahrain to establish Arig Health and General Insurance Co and was responsible for health and life insurance operations across the Middle East and North Africa. In New Zealand he spent two years with the technology company Unisys before joining Pegasus Health as a senior manager in 2002. David has an MBA and 20 years experience in general management, healthcare and IT.

Nicola Young

Nicola Young is the Health Promotion and Community Health Manager at ProCare Health and has worked on the implementation of health promotion in primary care for the last four years.

She worked as a registered nurse in peadiatrics for 15 years in Counties Manukau, Canada and central Auckland and then completed her Masters degree in Public Health.

Her professional interests include environments and health, access to primary and secondary care, and how social capital impacts on health and wellbeing. She believes that primary care is ‘the place to be’ and is keen on strengthening the interface between community networks and general practice teams.

She has recently become a mum and her little boy is now 10 months old.

Philip Gandar

Philip Gandar is the Managing Partner of Synergia, a health research, evaluation and design company and an honorary fellow at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Philip has extensive experience in the development of chronic care programmes and the implementation of support programmes in primary health at national, district and local levels. Philip, and the Synergia team, specialise in taking a whole systems approach to the understanding of complex health and social issues and the translation of design of effective responses across multiple organisations, roles and functions.

Louisa Sparrow

Louisa Sparrow is the Clinical Nursing Director at Pegasus Health 24 Hour Surgery. Louisa has a colourful background in a variety of clinical and management primary health care settings; general practice in Waikanae, rural nursing at Fox Glacier, student health at Lincoln University and as resident nurse at Outward Bound Anakiwa. She has also worked in the Christchurch Emergency Department enabling her to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist between that interface of primary and secondary care. Louisa is passionate about supporting the development of primary health care nursing as an integral part of innovative interdisciplinary models of practice. She has completed post-graduate qualifications in primary health care.

Joe Howells 

General Manager, Primary Health Care Services, WIPA

Joe has 18 years experience in various general management roles in the health sector.  These roles have included senior management positions finance, integrated care, and operational management across three DHBs and Area Health Boards.  Most recently Joe managed the Wairarapa Community PHO from its early establishment in 2004.

Joe’s current role focuses on providing leadership across four PHOs and their staff in the Capital & Coast and Wairarapa DHB districts.  These PHOs have a combined enrolled population of 255,000 people.

 

Berni Marra

Berni is the current manager of Capital PHO, where she has progressed the implementation of services supporting the Primary Health Care strategy across 32 Primary Care Practices for the past 2 years. She has a broad range of experience in the Health and Social Service sectors previously having worked with the Ministry of Social Development, the Wellington Diabetes Trust and management of the Wellington Sexual Health Service. A firm belief in the role of Primary Care as a major contributor to keeping the community well, coupled with ideals of reducing health disparity, is the major driver of the work carried out by her and her team.

Rachel Harrison

Rachel has been the Health Promotion Coordinator for Capital PHO for just over a year. Prior to this she worked as a Youth Health Promoter with Community and Public Health on the West Coast. This experience has allowed her to realise the benefit of supporting the Primary Care workforce to undertake Health Promotion. She is currently studying a Post Graduate Diploma in International Health.

Barbara Charuk

Barbara is a trained Clinical Social Worker and Counsellor and has over 25 years experience in providing and developing health and wellness services in both clinical and leadership roles.

She works part time as Clinical Leader, Mental Health Team with the Whanganui Regional Primary Health Organisation and also maintains a private practice.

Her focus for the past 5 years has been the development of a counselling service for patients who present with mild to moderate mental health problems in Wanganui General Practices, initially through a pilot project initiated by the local IPA. The service has since evolved to include to other specialist mental health responses within primary care.

Through her Masters studies, the service has developed in accordance with international best practice standards and her research focused on the influence that primary care counselling has had on general practice. The results of this research and the development of the service will be the focus of this presentation.

Dulia Halliday

I am currently a third year medical student studying at Auckland University. I finished my degree at Canterbury University in 2006 majoring in biochemistry and biology with the intentions to apply for medical school. I have worked in biochemistry research, which has only increased my interest in medicine. Over the summer I worked as a summer student on the general practice team development project at Pegasus. My time at Pegasus hooked me into the world of general practice, which I am now determined to enter.

 Andrew Manning 

Andrew is passionate about General Practice and wholeheartedly agrees with whoever quipped that it’s the most fun you can have with your clothes on!  A full-time partner at a busy urban Christchurch medical centre since 1995, Andrew loves the stimulation and rewards of his job, and finds the current shortage of new graduates genuinely baffling.

After graduating from Otago in 1987, Andrew devoted five eclectic years to a variety of house jobs in the UK and NZ, culminating in a year working in Obstetrics in Rotorua.  The General Practice Training Programme in Christchurch and Akaroa gave him a taste for rural work, and he followed this with two fascinating years as a locum in the cities and small rural towns of the South Island.

Andrew has been involved in many initiatives for Pegasus, the local IPA, particularly as small group leader and topic preparer in the medical education programme.   He is currently involved in pandemic planning, and holds the role of Christchurch City Primary Care Co-Ordinator.  Outside work, Andrew is a life member of the Waimakariri & District Catholic River Wideners’ Club.

 

 

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