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Dr. Curtis Walker was elected to Council in 2015. He was elected Chair in February 2019. Ko Whakatōhea rāua ko Ngāti Porou ngā iwi. Formerly a veterinarian, Dr Walker retrained in human medicine and qualified from Auckland in 2007. He started work as a House Officer at Waikato hospital and commenced internal medicine training there before moving to Palmerston North and Wellington to complete his F...

Professor Harvey White is a Cardiologist and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Unit, Auckland City Hospital. He is an Honorary Professor of Medicine University of Auckland and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.  Harvey trained at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland and Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. He is the John Neutze Scholar.  In recognition of his work on end-systo...

Satualafa'alagilagi Dr. Leinani Aiono-Le Tagaloa was born and brought up in Samoa (previously Western Samoa).  She began surgical training then completed anaesthetic training.  Having a FANZCA she undertook an obstetric anaesthesia fellowship and assistant professorship in the United States.  Upon returning to New Zealand, Dr Tagaloa undertook a further fellowship in Pain Medicine and since o...

Dr. Margy Pohl is an Orthopaedic surgeon in Northland and currently Clinical Director of their Orthopaedic Department. Margy manages to combine working in private and public capacities with raising her 2 home schooled teenage boys and maintaining some semblance of lifestyle balance and sanity. Margy is passionate about increasing the number of females in Orthopaedics and breaking down some of the...

Dr. Jin Russell is a Consultant Developmental Paediatrician at Starship Children's Health (@drjinrussell). Jin graduated from the University of Auckland medical programme in 2007 with distinctions in paediatrics, medicine, surgery, general practice, and psychiatry. Jin completed specialist training with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Community Child Health, with expertise in...

Dr. David Spriggs trained at St. Andrews and Manchester in the United Kingdom. He returned to his hometown of Newcastle for advanced training, and spent two years doing stroke research, of which one year was a fellowship in Sydney. On returning to the NHS, he realised his error and has since become an NHS refugee in Auckland, practicing as a general physician and geriatrician. His interests includ...

Dr. Nadya York is a consultant surgeon in Auckland. She immigrated from Russia aged fifteen, and completed her medical school and surgical training in New Zealand. After a two year urology fellowship in Indiana, United States of America she returned to Auckland City Hospital as a consultant urologist in 2017. Her subspecialty interest is kidney stones and laser prostate surgery. She is a wife and...

Dr. Inia Raumati is an emergency medicine specialist at Auckland City Hospital. Inia also volunteered at Westpac Rescue as a Helicopter Emergency Medical Services doctor, about 4 shifts a month. He was also an Army Reservists Doctor for the NZDF, and took multiple years leave from ED to work full time for the army. Inia first graduated from Otago University with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 1997...

Dr. Khairil Musa is a Senior Intensive Care Registrar from Royal North Shore Hospital and an ICU Field Doctor with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) . Khairil was deployed to Yemen and Iraq in 2020 as part of MSF’s COVID19 response and also worked in MSF ’s Trauma Hospital in Aden. In his downtime Khairil is passionate about the performing arts and is a classically trained dan...

Dr. Renee Liang is a mid career paediatrician currently working in Northland. Over the course of her career she has mostly worked as a locum and on short contracts, which gives her flexibility to pursue her other careers in the arts and in research. She is known for her work in communities with migrant women and for telling the stories of her Chinese NZ community on stage and page. In this episode...

Dr. Yvonne LeFort is a Canadian-trained Family Physician. Dr. LeFort has a special interest in Breastfeeding Medicine. Her passion for helping mothers and their infants, dates back to when she had her second son and was faced with feeding difficulties, which her medical colleagues were sympathetic of but knew little or nothing about. She decided after this experience to learn more about this negle...

Dr. Guy Melrose is an urgent care doctor originally from UK. He trained in Liverpool, graduating in 2003 and has subsequently migrated to New Zealand, working throughout Hawkes Bay, Hamilton, and Tauranga. He currently is the Director of Professional Development for the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care and has hosted and produced their college podcast for the last 3 years.  In this episode...

Dr. Danielle Jones, known online as Mama Doctor Jones, is a board-certified obstetrician & gynaecologist and online educator who has amassed a following of over 2 million across platforms. She is an expert in periods, pregnancy, and gynecologic health and is passionate about science education, autonomy, and patient-centered care. She’s been featured in the New York Times, on the cover of Peopl...

Dr. Sarah Rennie has a portfolio career as a general surgeon and surgical endoscopist, locuming around Aotearoa and is one half of the Aotearoa New Zealand Surgical advisors for RACS along with Professor Spencer Beasley. She was the first SET trainee to be a grandma, and was a registrar for 18 years, in and out of training in New Zealand and the UK. On top of all this, she works at the University...

Dr. Vanessa Beavis, ANZCA president, is a leading anaesthetist who presides over an international specialty medical college, a tough gig during a world-wide health pandemic. She was previously the Director of Perioperative Services at Auckland City Hospital and her clinical interests include perioperative medicine and liver transplant anaesthesia. Her colleagues and staff would say she is the idea...

Dr. Glenn Colquhoun is a poet and doctor. He was born in 1964 and grew up in South Auckland. He went to school at the South Auckland Seventh-day-adventist primary school and later the Auckland Adventist High School in Mangere. He went on to study theology for two years at Avondale College, the church’s tertiary institution in Australia and completed a BA in English and Education at Auckland Univer...

Dr. Alana Harper is an emergency medicine specialist at Auckland City Hospital adult emergency department and a Pre-Hospital Retrieval Medicine Doctor with the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust (ARHT) for the past 10 years. She is also the ARHT clinical lead for patient safety and quality.  Her Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) clinical work involves mostly helicopter and road primary mi...

Dr Bryan Mitchelson is a paediatric cardiologist at Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland. He works in the growing area of paediatric heart failure and transplantation and is involved in projects aimed at improving outcomes in young people after heart transplantation. Bryan is a self-proclaimed mozzie (Māori/Aussie) having been born and raised in Australia, but is trying to re-engage with his M...

Jane Probert is an experienced emergency nurse, now working in high-performance sport in New Zealand, combining her nursing skills, interest in international travel and passion for sport. She was proud to be selected to be a member of the health team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in July 2021, where she was part of the team helping New Zealand athletes achieve their goals. With the support of HP...

Dr. Angela Lim is a paediatric-trainee turned mental health technology entrepreneur, founding the company Clearhead. For the impact she has made with Clearhead, she is a finalist of the 2021 Women of Influence Awards for the Innovation, science and health category. Angela has always been passionate about improving patient outcomes and believe that technology has a huge potential in doing that. She...

Dr. Michelle Wise was born and raised in Canada and moved to New Zealand on completion of her O&G training. She took up her first SMO job in Whangārei Hospital, returned to Canada for a period and is now working at Auckland City Hospital. She is a clinical academic working half time in general O&G and half time at the medical school teaching and doing research. Her research interests are i...

Dr. William Baber is an otolaryngologist/ENT surgeon in Auckland. There was no training for ENT surgery at the time he developed his interest, so pursued his training at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. He returned to Auckland in 1974 as a Tutor Specialist, doing every type of ENT surgery before travelling for fellowship in otology in USA. He is also the president of the...

Associate Professor Rhea Liang is a general and breast surgeon on the Gold Coast. She is a surgical educationalist and Surgical Discipline Lead at Bond University and the immediate past Chair of the Operating With Respect Committee, RACS. She also researches, advocates and consults widely in diversity and equity issues. On multiple occasions (including recently!) she has been told she is unsuited...

Dr. Janet Rowan is a general physician working in obstetric medicine since 1994. She has further subspecialised into maternity diabetes for the last 19 years and concurrently does clinical research. Janet has 4 adult children and 4 grandchildren and is passionate about flexible pathways for doctors, and good mentorship.  In this episode, we discuss her extensive part-time training, her marriage an...

Dr. Dev Raga is a Melbourne-based podcaster and GP who discusses common financial topics. His podcast titled ‘Dev Raga Personal Finance’ discusses topics ranging from saving, investing, debt reduction, and personal insurance. The final episode to wrap up 2021 has been carefully chosen. Over the short course of my career in medicine so far, I have pondered the ongoing inequities we see within our m...