Karen Smith - Specialist Anaesthetist,
ADHB
- Current Chairperson (CEAG)
Background
Karen is a Specialist Anaesthetist in
Adult and Emergency Anaesthesia, Auckland City Hospital. She trained in
the United Kingdom and Auckland. Following completion of training she
undertook a Fellowship in Trauma and Vascular Anaesthesia as well as
Intensive Care Medicine in Toronto, Canada.
Since taking up her appointment as a
Specialist Anaesthetist in 1999, she has been appointed Supervisor of
Training in Anaesthesia for 7 years, Chairman of the Medical Education
Special Interest Group for the Australia and New Zealand College of
Anaesthetists (2005-2008), and is a current final examiner for the
College of Anaesthetists as well as being a member of the College
trainee performance review panel.
Karen has been the current Chair of the
Clinical Ethics Advisory Group since 2007.
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Alan Jenner, Consultant, Waitemata
District Health Board
Background
Alan
is a geriatrician based at North Shore Hospital. He did his training in
Geriatrics and Internal Medicine in Auckland and then spent a few years in
Dunedin before returning to Auckland in 2003. He has a special interest in the
neurologic aspects of geriatric medicine, especially dementia. He sits on the
Waitemata and Auckland DHBs’ Clinical Ethics Advisory Groups, the latter as the
WDHB representative. He has a longstanding interest in ethics, particularly
relating to clinical situations in the field of geriatric medicine, as well as
the medicolegal aspects of patient care.
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Barbara Mackay - Play
Specialist, ADHB
Barbara
Mackay is the Allied Health representative on the Ethics committee.
For the last 12 years she has been the hospital play specialist on
the Paediatric Haematology Oncology unit in Starship. She has also
been the Educator and Professional Leader of the Play and Recreation
Department.
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Catherine Ryan - Lawyer
Background
Catherine Ryan is a Lawyer. Practice of law in
the law relating to health with experience
and interest in research and clinical ethics.
Catherine is a member of the Waikato District Health Board Medical
Complaints Trust and a member of the Ministry of Health Medicines
Assessment Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Waitemata
and Counties Manukau District Health Board Clinical Ethics Advisory
Committees.
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Dr Elizabeth Harding -
General Practitioner (GP Liaison)
Background
Dr Liz Harding is a General
Practitioner doing locums in Auckland. She trained at Auckland
Medical School and has her Fellowship from the RNZCGP. She completed a Postgraduate
Diploma in Professional Ethics at Auckland University.
She sits on the Waitemata
District Health Board Clinical Ethical Group, as well as the
Auckland District Health Board. She also represents the RNZCGP
College on the NZ Mental Health Professional Liaison Committee.
She has worked overseas
including the Nepal Himalayas, Solomon Islands and Australia.
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Dr Gregory Finucane -
Psychiatrist, ADHB
Background
Greg Finucane is a Psychiatrist who subspecialised in
Liaison Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, but also completed
an MA in the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health. He was
Clinical Director of Liaison Psychiatry from 2003 through
2009 and is now the Clinical Director for Te Whetu Tawera as
well as continuing private practice and some
neuropsychiatry.
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Dr. Ian
Dittmer - Transplant
Nephrologist, Renal Clinical Director, ADHB - (Deputy Chair for CEAG, ADHB)
Background
Ian
Dittmer is a Transplant Nephrologist who has worked in the unit since
1998. His main interest is in Transplant immunology and monitoring of
rejection.
Ian
went to Medical School in Otago, then moved to Auckland on graduation in 1986
and completed training in Renal Medicine. Ian spent 3 years in Gloucester and
Bristol as Fellow, mainly in Clinical Transplantation.
In 1998 he
returned to Auckland as Renal Physician and he has an administrative
responsibility for Renal Transplant.
He is
Medical Director of National Kidney Allocation Scheme, and is employed
part time on the local pre-school and school Boards.
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Jackie Robinson - Nurse Practitioner -
Palliative Care, ADHB
Background
Jackie is a Nurse Practitioner in Palliative Care working at
Auckland District Health Board. She has been working in
palliative care for over 10 years initially in a hospice
setting and over the past seven years with the Auckland City
Hospital Palliative Care Team. In partnership with the
Clinical Director Jackie provides leadership for the
hospital palliative care contributing to service development
and integration with palliative care providers across the
district. She also has a senior clinical role with the
hospital palliative care service.
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Dr. Joanne Ritchie -
Consultant - Department of Intensive Care - Middlemore Hospital
Background
I trained initially as an
Anaesthetist before competing my training in Intensive Care
Medicine and now work as a full time Intensivist and Clinical
Head of the ICU at Middlemore Hospital.
I
have a keen interest in Clinical ethics especially relating to
day to day decision making in a resource limited environment and
I attend the Clinical Ethics Advisory Group meetings as an
External representative from Counties Manukau DHB.
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Naida Glavish - Chief
Advisor Tikanga, ADHB
Background
The following are
some career highlights from her position as
Chief
Advisor Tikanga - ADHB
Leadership
of the development of Maori population health strategies which contribute to
Maori health gain including development of the Maori Health Service,
establishment of the position of General Manager Maori and
He Kamaka Oranga
strategic vision.
Fostering
of credible working relationships between the Maori Health Service and key
stakeholders (both internal and external) and inclusive of regional and national
forums, to ensure effective support for Maori Health strategic direction.
Risk
Management and identification through the monitoring and evaluation of ADHB
systems and processes to ensure Treaty of Waitangi obligations are met and
maintained.
Development
of the Tikanga Recommended Best Practice Policy, a gold standard guideline for
all staff within ADHB that supports 100% Maori client focus. This policy was
launched for implementation 21st March 2003.
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Ngaire Buchanan - General
Manager - Operations & Clinical Support Services, ADHB
Background
Ngaire
trained as a nurse with the Auckland Hospital Board as a Registered
General Obstetric Nurse (RGON). Early on in her career Ngaire had a
number of different roles including staff nurse in DCCM, Charge
Nurse for a general medical & endocrinology adult ward, training &
development roles with a nurse consultant portfolio for Radiology.
Following
a Nurse Advisor role in Starship Children’s Hospital she and moved
into general service management roles. Ngaire is currently the
General Manager Operations.
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Tim Dare -
Ethicist/Lecturer
Background
Dr Tim Dare is a senior
lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, Coordinator of the
University of Auckland's Diploma in Professional Ethics, and Co-director of the
University’s Centre for Professional Ethics.
He is
also a lawyer, who worked as a judges' clerk in the High Court and as a ‘real
lawyer’ (very briefly) before taking his PhD in Philosophy in Canada and
returning to life as an academic. (His principal research areas are applied and
professional ethics, political philosophy and legal philosophy).
Despite a great love for the
academic life, he is nonetheless committed to the practical application of
philosophy. As well as being on this committee, he is a member of the WDHB’s
Clinical Ethics Advisory Group, and Chair of one of two Auckland Health and
Disabilities Ethics Committees (which look at health research applications).
He also writes a weekly ethics
column (occasionally on medical ethics topics) in the New Zealand Listener.
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