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Our highly qualified and experienced presenters have a background in health and are well-respected nurses, doctors or other health professional. The presenters are experts in their field and cover a wide range of topics such as acute and chronic medicine, mental health, women’s health and emergency care. Because different groups require specific needs, each presenter tailors their presentation and discussion to suit the audience.

There is no limit to our range of topics and presenters, so if you have a topic or presenter you would like please let our team know and we will endeavour to arrange it. Please email us at info@myhealthhub.co.nz.

Our topics and presenters

Jane George

Jane George works at the intersection of rural health equity and workforce sustainability in Aotearoa New Zealand. With roots in social work practice and a doctorate focused ...

Lucy O’Hagan

Lucy is a GP, medical educator, writer and mentor. She works at Oratoa Cannons Creek in Porirua, although was for 20 years a rural GP in Wānaka. She has been a medical ...

Catherine Crofts

Catherine currently works at Auckland University of Technology where she teaches Pharmacology and conducts research in metabolic health disorders, especially those ...

Dr Cathy Stephenson

Cathy is a GP at a Rangatahi Ora clinic in Porirua, where she works alongside a multi-disciplinary team supporting young people from the community. She spent many years as a ...

Emma Burns

Emma has been a registered psychologist since 1996, and has worked in a variety of settings including mental health, education, suicide postvention and justice settings. She ...

Professor Alice Theadom

Professor Theadom has been specialising in mild traumatic brain injuries for over 15 years. She has been working with ACC ...

Grace Fusha

Grace is a Nurse Educator at Asthma NZ, dedicated to educating patients, whānau, and healthcare professionals on asthma. After graduating in 2017 and starting her career in ...

Jacqui Coates-Harris

Jacqui Coates-Harris is a Registered Psychiatric nurse with 40 + years working in mental health as a Registered nurse and Charge Nurse Manager for 23 years...

Katie Faaiuaso

• Asthma (adults and paediatric) • COPD • Asthma guidelines update (2020)

Rob Keating

• Topics that relate to emergencies / aeromedicine / paramedicine / prehospital • Managing specialised patient groups – eg combative, entrapped, bariatric, infective, ...

Maarie Hutana

• Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Putting Theory into Practice • Cultural Safety in Healthcare: Honouring Diversity and Advancing Equity • Bridging the Gap: Steps to Dismantle Health ...

Kris Gagliardi

• Management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) • Post-cardiac arrest care • Major trauma - diagnosis, management and hospital destination

Dean Cowles

• Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Healthcare • Inequities in Māori Health: An analysis • Cultural awareness and safety

Victoria Thompson

• Bowel Cancer in NZ • Screening for bowel cancer • Patient stories • End of life care ...

Kate Te Pou

• Asthma • COPD • Bronchiectasis • COVID – assessing and supporting Long covid patients/whaiora

Sue Jones

• Asthma • Asthma guidelines • ILD – MDMs management • COPD • LTOT

Sue Ward

• COPD • Asthma • Respiratory testing and resulting nursing care ...

Sally Powell

• Sleep Health and impact for wellness • All things positive airway pressure (home based - CPAP, APAP, Non-invasive ventilation) ...

Jelly O’Shea

• Introduction to Intersex Variations

Mary Robertson

• Advance Care Planning • Serious Illness Conversations

Sandra Richardson

• Identification, response to, and management of violence and aggression in the healthcare setting • Supporting wellness initiatives for healthcare staff • Understanding ...

Elle Cradwick

• Suicide prevention & postvention • De-escalation • Resilience • The impact of trauma on the brain • Navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma ...

Daman Kaur

• AF & its management • Heart failure • ACS • CVD in women • Valvular disease • Cardiac medications • 12 lead ECGs. Advanced ECG • STEMI/NSTEMI • Arrythmias • Cardiac devices ...

Rachel Hall

Types of heart failure • Medications shown to benefit and guideline for titration • Other therapies to help heart failure (CRT, ablation) • Patient self-monitoring • ...

Jennifer Robb

• Chronic Kidney disease - what’s the latest evidence and what does this mean for patients? • Protein foods – what type and amount for people with CKD • What to say when ...

Tracey Hawkes

Delirium prevention • Down syndrome and dementia

Sharyn Creighton

What does person-centred care really mean? • What are the unmet needs? • Removing labels • Being creative with solutions

Orquidea Tamayo Mortera

Therapeutic recreation

Dr John Thwaites

Drug Interactions in the elderly • Dementia – the different types • Falls in older people • Falls, fractures and osteoporosis

Bronwyn Thompson

Acute lower back pain • Chronic pain management • Fibromyalgia and nociplastic pain • Cannabis and chronic pain • Sleep management in chronic pain • Self-management and ...

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of hospitalisation and death in New Zealand and disproportionately affects Maori. COPD is both underdiagnosed and undertreated despite the availability of effective ...

ASSISTED DYING – THE WHĀNAU EXPERIENCE

Dr Aida Dehkhoda is an early-career academic psychologist with a PhD focused on assisted dying in the context of dementia. She is currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and a Research Fellow ...