Thank you to all for attending NZED Conference! 

It’s been such a pleasure to meet with you and see you again. We hope you’ve had a brilliant few days in wonderful Taupō and have enjoyed the networking and learning opportunities this conference provides each year. 

We look forward to seeing you all again next year as we reminisce and thereafter remember.  

Nāku, nā Mariska, Stephanie, Marama, Matthew, John and Ruth

Programme

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Meet Our Presenters

Dr Wayne de Beer is a consultant psychiatrist who has worked at the Waikato District Health Board, Hamilton since 1994. Following completion of specialist training, he has predominantly worked in the sections of Old Age, Adult Community and Addiction psychiatry. He is currently working part-time in Consultation-Liaison psychiatry service (and includes a weekly session in the Pain Clinic at the DHB). He also holds an honorary lectureship with the Auckland University and is currently the Clinical Training Director for the Waikato DHB (that focuses on post-graduate, prevocational medical education and training). Dr de Beer is involved in a number of College activities (RANZCP); including the Education Committee and is Chair of the CPD committee of the College. His primary interest remains in medical education, particularly workplace training and completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Education.

Kris Gagliardi is a practising Intensive Care Paramedic for St John New Zealand with an interest in clinical pathways and systems of care. His current role is National Patient Pathways Manager for St John, where he is responsible for leading the development of pre-hospital pathways for high-acuity conditions including STEMI, acute stroke and major trauma. He is also responsible for implementing low acuity pathways for ambulance patients in partnership with District Health Boards (DHBs) and Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) including falls prevention, smoking cessation, mental health, social support and other pathways depending on community needs. Prior to becoming the National Patient Pathways Manager for St John Kris was the pre-hospital lead for the Nelson Marlborough STEMI Pathway, New Zealand’s first comprehensive pre-hospital STEMI pathway involving pre-hospital fibrinolysis and direct transport of eligible patients to a PCI capable hospital. Kris is a trustee of the New Zealand Paramedic Education and Research Charitable Trust.

Theresa Ngamoki has a 30 year nursing career across primary and secondary settings within the Lakes/Bay of Plenty District Health Board with Theresa becoming a Nurse Practitioner in 2015. Reducing challenges faced by Maori to achieve health and wellness has been a mission and one that she believes is possible. The approach of the Kaupapa Maori ED service is to identify the challenges faced in the local context of health care, highlight myriad strengths and pitfalls then streamline the care of the patient/whanau journey across multiple intersections. It relies on a collective approach. Theresa was raised within Te Whanau a Apanui iwi with the marae being the centre of all things. Any spare time revolves around whānau, hapu and marae. 

Andrew Slater is the CEO of Homecare Medical and is responsible for New Zealand’s integrated National Telehealth Service (NTS), which was established nearly four years ago. NTS brought several different national helplines onto one platform and developed them to be available across seven digital channels. In the past year 1 in 8 people in New Zealand got in touch by phone, text, email or webchat to access free 24/7 services including Healthline, Quitline, 1737, need to talk?, Alcohol/Drug, Gambling, Elder Abuse, Poisons and sexual harm support services. These people have been able to access the advice, care, and support they deserve when they need it most.Andrew leads a clinical organisation of 400 frontline health and mental health nurses, counsellors, advisors, poisons officers, psychiatrists and support staff - who are based in four call centres around the country as well as emergency tele-triage nurses located in ambulance communication centres and over 160 staff working from their home offices from Kaitaia to Invercargill. Andrew’s mandate set by the New Zealand Government and reason for getting out of bed each day is to bring about fundamental innovative change to the health and mental health space, facilitating new and equitable ways of delivering virtual care. He is focussed on expanding the capacity and reach of health, wellness and counselling services to virtually support people to stay well and connect them seamlessly with care when they need it.Before joining Homecare Medical, Andrew had a strategic leadership role with Vigil Monitoring who specialise in real-time health monitoring technology.  Prior to this role Andrew was responsible for planning, service development and transformation at St John. In this role, he led the development of the first national plan for the ambulance service.

Dr Inia Tomas is a consultant at Middlemore Hospital and has worked as a Registrar in the Auckland region since 2010. Inia has worked in Emergency Medicine in Australia and Ireland. Inia’s has an interest in in Māori and indigenous health and have been part of ACEM's Assessing Cultural Competency reference group and Manaaki Mana Strategy steering group. Inia has 3 young children, plays over 40’s football even though he is only 39, and a keen armchair sportsman.

Dr Leanne Toney began her medical career in Northern Ireland, in 2002, before moving to Aotearoa in 2006 where she began training in Emergency Medicine. She is now a FACEM at Christchurch Hospital where her interests are varied but include care of older people in the ED, trainee education and wellbeing, choosing wisely, paediatric emergency medicine and equitable health. In 2018 she set up and chairs the multidisciplinary Cultural Safety in the ED Group, which has worked to promote the goals of ACEM’s Manaaki Māori strategy within the Emergency Department.