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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

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

• A cultural safety approach to clinical practice • Pro-equity: be part of the solution • The practical application of Te Tiriti o Waitangi

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 • Equity & Te Tiriti • 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) ...

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

• 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

Alan Beasley

Dementia, depression and delirium • Communication and dementia • Person-centred care in dementia care • Life story work in dementia care

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 ...

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

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MANAGING DIABETES IN PALLIATIVE & END-OF-LIFE CARE

Ryan is a Clinical Associate of the Maurice Wilkins Centre, the Immediate Past-President of the New Zealand Society of Endocrinology (NZSE) and the current President Elect of the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes (NZSSD). He has recently been appointed as co-Chair of ...

Preventing falls in the elderly

Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury in older people and are often a consequence of frailty. They can result in significant injury, functional decline, loss of confidence and death. Preventing and reducing falls is everyone’s ...