Speakers

Matthew Clark was born and educated in Auckland, completing Medical School at the University of Auckland in 1990. The next ten years included medical experience, surgical training, and a doctorate. Matthew gained his specialist qualification in 2000, then worked as a locum consultant at Middlemore for 18 months. Three years in the UK followed, including two years in a specialist cancer unit, the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Over 40 peer-reviewed papers are detailed in Matthew's CV.

Matthew has now been in private practice since 2005.He currently sees patients ...read more

Mark is an orthopaedic knee specialist who has been practicing in Auckland for twelve years. He practices at Ascot and Middlemore Hospital with satellite clinics on the North Shore and in West Auckland.

During this time he has treated over 14,000 patients with knee problems. Mark trained initially in New Zealand then worked under leading knee surgeons in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

Mark is continually striving to improve patient care ...read more

Dene comes from a sporting background being a NZ Academy of Sport provider in addition to being a Preferred Physiotherapist for Triathlon NZ, Bike NZ and Athletics NZ. He continues to compete and is an active Ironman Triathlete and accredited Tri NZ Coach.

He holds a Masters in Sports Medicine where he continued his special interest of overuse tendon injury and lower limb biomechanics further investigating the Achilles tendon and ...read more

Professor Gregor Coster was appointed Chairman of the Counties Manukau District Health Board in 2007, providing healthcare for 485,000 people in South Auckland, many of them with high needs. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland having recently retired as Dean of Graduate Studies. He has had extensive experience in health as a general practitioner, academic, and in governance roles within the public sector. He had 15 years of ...read more

Margaret is a qualified Clinical Biochemist. She previously worked in Clinical Chemistry at Auckland Hospital, specialising in Toxicilogy and Intensive Care medicine. Margaret moved to Nelson in 1991 and worked at the Nelson Diagnostic Laboratory as the Quality Manager the Laboratory Manager. She came to Nelson Bays Primary Health in 2007 to coordinate the PHO Performance Programme. This role has grown and her current title is Manager of General Practice Services ...read more

Prof Felicity Goodyear-Smith is the Goodfellow Chair. She is an academic GP with a particular research interest in addressing lifestyle and mental health issues to improve well-being. She is also founding editor of the multi-disciplinary RNZCGP peer-reviewed publication the Journal of Primary Health Care.

Diana Hart is a Respiratory Nurse Practitioner at Middlemore Hospital South Auckland .She completed her nursing training in the UK at Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge and came to New Zealand in 1980 .She completed the MN degree at the University of Auckland in 2005 and became a Nurse Practitioner in 2006.

She specialises in case management of chronic respiratory patients in their homes and to do so effectively liaises with the primary care ...read more

Jo Hikaka is a clinical pharmacist for Waitemata DHB with a background in general medicine and health for the older adult. In 2011 she worked in the community aged residential care setting where she provided individualised pharmaceutical care plans, and medicines education and information to care facilities. Within the ARCHUS project she performed medicine reviews within the MDT setting. She is currently on maternity leave and will return to work at ...read more

Born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, educated at Auckland Grammar School and the University of Auckland, School of Medicine. Tim had his early post-graduate medical experience at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand which lead on to specialty training in Paediatrics. A significant part of that experience involved Neonatal Intensive Care and Tim was involved in the air retrieval of at risk neonates from the region; undertaking intensive care transfers mainly ...read more

Louise Robinson is a GP and Professor of Primary Care and Ageing at the Institutes of Ageing and Health/Health and Society, Newcastle University. She has been an academic General Practitioner for 17 years and earned her MD from Newcastle University in 1999. Her research programme is centred on Primary Care and Ageing, with a special interest in the care of people with dementia in primary care.

Louise is currently the Royal College ...read more

Dr Christine Roke is the National Medical Advisor for Family Planning and a Senior Lecturer for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Auckland Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. She practises from the Newmarket Family Planning clinic. She is particularly interested in long acting contraception and enjoys teaching.

An Update on Contraception. Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) is promoted for its increased effectiveness and ease of use. Are we advising ...read more

Dr Sharp graduated from Otago Medical School, trained in ophthalmology in Auckland and completed a two year Medical Retina fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in Ophthalmology and Electrophysiology

She is currently based at Retina Specialists, Parnell and Ophthalmology Department, Greenlane Clinical Centre in Auckland. She has worked with the most current and effective medical therapies introducing photodynamic therapy in 1999 for age-related macular degeneration, and intravitreal Avastin and Lucentis since it became ...read more

Andrew trained as a psychologist and worked for a decade in secondary mental health services working in the child and adolescent area before seeing the light and moving to the primary care environment where he has had leadership roles in a number of organisations. Currently he is the CEO of Nelson Bay Primary Health. Significant projects underway at present include the creation of an Intergrated Family Health Centre in Golden Bay ...read more