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
![Professor Alice Theadom](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/500x500_Alice_Theodom_2024_jpg.jpg)
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](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/500x500__Grace_Fusha_2024_jpg.jpg)
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](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/500x500_Jacqui-Coates_Harris_2024_jpg.jpg)
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](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/500x500_Katie_Faaiuaso_jpg.jpg)
Katie Faaiuaso
• Asthma (adults and paediatric)
• COPD
• Asthma guidelines update (2020)
![Rob Keating](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/500x500_Rob_Keating_2024_jpg.jpg)
Rob Keating
• Topics that relate to emergencies / aeromedicine / paramedicine / prehospital
• Managing specialised patient groups – eg combative, entrapped, bariatric, infective, ...
![Maarie Hutana](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/500x500_Maarie_Hutana_2023_jpg.jpg)
Maarie Hutana
• A cultural safety approach to clinical practice
• Pro-equity: be part of the solution
• The practical application of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
![Kris Gagliardi](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0041_Kris_2023.jpg)
Kris Gagliardi
• Management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)
• Post-cardiac arrest care
• Major trauma - diagnosis, management and hospital destination
![Dean Cowles](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0040_Dean_Cowles_2023.jpg)
Dean Cowles
• Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Healthcare
• Equity & Te Tiriti
• Cultural awareness and safety
![Victoria Thompson](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0039_Victoria_Thompson_2023.jpg)
Victoria Thompson
• Bowel Cancer in NZ
• Screening for bowel cancer
• Patient stories
• End of life care ...
![Kate Te Pou](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Asthma.jpg)
Kate Te Pou
• Asthma
• COPD
• Bronchiectasis
• COVID – assessing and supporting Long covid patients/whaiora
![Sue Jones](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Respiratory.jpg)
Sue Jones
• Asthma
• Asthma guidelines
• ILD – MDMs management
• COPD
• LTOT
![Sue Ward](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Handling-of-patients.jpg)
Sue Ward
• COPD
• Asthma
• Respiratory testing and resulting nursing care ...
![Sally Powell](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0037_Sally_Powell_2023.jpg)
Sally Powell
• Sleep Health and impact for wellness
• All things positive airway pressure (home based - CPAP, APAP, Non-invasive ventilation) ...
![Kate Stark](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0036_Kate_Stark_2023-1024x1024.jpg)
Kate Stark
• Pre-hospital emergency care in rural/remote
• Professional Supervision – value to health professionals.
• Living rurally and how being rural impacts on access to health care ...
![Jelly O’Shea](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0033_Jelly_Oshea_2023-1024x1024.jpg)
Jelly O’Shea
• Introduction to Intersex Variations
![Mary Robertson](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0034_Mary-R_2023-1024x1024.jpg)
Mary Robertson
• Advance Care Planning
• Serious Illness Conversations
![Sandra Richardson](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0035_Sandra_Richardson_2023-1024x1024.jpg)
Sandra Richardson
• Identification, response to, and management of violence and aggression in the healthcare setting
• Supporting wellness initiatives for healthcare staff
• Understanding ...
![Elle Cradwick](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/EC032024-1024x1024.jpg)
Elle Cradwick
• Suicide prevention & postvention
• De-escalation
• Resilience
• The impact of trauma on the brain
• Navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma ...
![Daman Kaur](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0026_Daman_Kaur-1024x1024.jpg)
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](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0025_Rachel_Hall-1024x1024.jpg)
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](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0024_Jennifer-Robb-1024x1024.jpg)
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](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Occupational-therapist-1024x1024.jpg)
Tracey Hawkes
Delirium prevention • Down syndrome and dementia
![Sharyn Creighton](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0022_Sharyn-Creighton-1024x1024.jpg)
Sharyn Creighton
What does person-centred care really mean? • What are the unmet needs? • Removing labels • Being creative with solutions
![Orquidea Tamayo Mortera](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0020_Orquidea-Tamayo-Mortera-1024x1024.jpg)
Orquidea Tamayo Mortera
Therapeutic recreation
![Maria Kekus](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0015_Maria-Kekus-1024x1024.jpg)
Maria Kekus
Youth health assessment and engagement
![Alan Beasley](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Dementia-1024x1024.jpg)
Alan Beasley
Dementia, depression and delirium • Communication and dementia • Person-centred care in dementia care • Life story work in dementia care
![Dr John Thwaites](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0018_John-Thwaites-1024x1024.jpg)
Dr John Thwaites
Drug Interactions in the elderly • Dementia – the different types • Falls in older people • Falls, fractures and osteoporosis
![Bronwyn Thompson](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0028_Bronwyn-Thompson-1024x1024.jpg)
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 ...
![Respiratory Nurse Specialists – Middlemore Hospital](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0000_mika-baumeister-uz_T7h8ds04-unsplash-1024x1024.jpg)
Respiratory Nurse Specialists – Middlemore Hospital
Respiratory failure and arterial blood gases • Airways disease, asthma, bronchiectasis & COPD • Managing the breathless patient • Oxygen therapy • Obstructive sleep apnoea
![Julia Slark](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MHH-Profile-Pics-Master-Layer_0017_Julia-Slark-1024x1024.jpg)
Julia Slark
Management of acute stroke
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![CARDIOVASCULAR RISK ASSESSMENTS (CVRA) HOT TOPICS](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MHHWebinar283-1ColMailchimp640-480x206.jpg)
CARDIOVASCULAR RISK ASSESSMENTS (CVRA) HOT TOPICS
Join us for an evening webinar exploring hot topics in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the preventative model of health. Learn more about CVD risk assessment in relation to alcohol, serious mental illness, blood pressure and lipid management, and using shared decision-making ...
![](https://myhealthhub.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MHHWebinar-286-1ColMailchimp640-480x206.jpg)
Fraser is the Specialist Clinical Lead (Extended Care Paramedic) for Hato Hone St John. His work is focused on paramedic care in the community, and he has a particular interest in palliative care. Fraser is a member of the Australasian Palliative Paramedicine Advisory Group, the New Zealand National Palliative Care Steering Group and has