Role Call - People on the move and getting recognition in the health sector

Research on the growing global burden of stroke and its contributing factors led the Health Research Council to award Auckland University of Technology epidemiologist Valery Feigin a Liley Medal. Professor Feigin was lead author of a “breakthrough” paper in The Lancet Neurology (online 3 September 2021), the council says in a media release. (Another Liley Medal was to be awarded after our deadline.) Paediatric cardiologist and rheumatic heart disease researcher Nigel Wilson won the Beaven Medal and palliative care research lead Tess Moeke-Maxwell (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Porou) and Te Ārai Research Group were awarded Te Tohu Rapuora Medal.

Keri Milne-Ihimaera is the new community representative on the WellSouth board.

Bluff-based Dr Milne-Ihimaera is an educational consultant, has worked as a teacher and a school principal, led student services at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and been general manager of the Moko Foundation (established by specialist GP and rural hospital medicine doctor Lance O’Sullivan).

Her doctorate is in Māori development and advancement. She serves on the boards of the Cancer Society, Ngāti Hine Health Trust and Ako Mātātupu Teach First NZ.

UK-trained nurse practitioner Nicky Burwood has been a medic in Afghanistan, central America and Africa in her almost 23 years’ nursing career and is an urgent-care NP at Queenstown Medical Centre.

Ms Burwood also has a part-time nurse training role with WellSouth Primary Health Network. She has just added another role, nursing representative on the WellSouth board.

Former Mercy Hospice nurse Jo Hathaway has joined Te Whatu Ora, where she is responsible for delivery of palliative care services.

A statement from senior communications advisor Charles Mabbett says Te Whatu Ora is looking at what’s needed for equitable access to and experience of palliative care services, with a strong focus on equity and responding to the needs of family and whānau.

Ms Hathaway has worked as a palliative care nurse specialist and was regional programme facilitator, palliative care for the South Island Alliance.

Health IT company Orion Health has welcomed Carey Campbell to its New Zealand-based team, in the role of clinical director: New Zealand and Australia. Until recently Southern Cross Healthcare’s director of nursing, Ms Campbell, held clinical, nursing education and nursing leadership roles at the then Waikato DHB. She was the clinical lead and product owner for the partnership between Orion Health and Southern Cross Healthcare that developed and successfully implemented the electronic patient record across the 16 Southern Cross hospitals.