General Medicine

Paul Jarrett is a dermatologist working at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau and The University of Auckland.

He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Universities of Auckland and Otago. 

MBChB Otago, FRACP

Adele is a New Zealand trained Gastroenterologist who works as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Middlemore Hospital, is the Clinical Lead of Bowel Screening at Counties Manukau, and works in the private sector at the MacMurray Centre. 

Her areas of interest include coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, bowel screening, colon cancer, diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy – gastroscopy, and colonoscopy.

BHB, MBChB, FRACP, PhD

Patrick is a specialist in both general cardiology and internal medicine, and practices at North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals. He trained in cardiology at the Greenlane Cardiovascular Service and completed a fellowship in Advanced Cardiac Imaging at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 2010. In 2012 he gained a PhD in cardiovascular medicine.

His areas of expertise are in cardiac imaging, personalised healthcare and angiography. He also has a particular interest in the latest developments in genomic medicine, which is when information about a patient's genetic make-up can be used to customise their treatment. He founded Theranostics Laboratory, a web-based DNA testing company.

Cameron works at North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals in Auckland, and is practicing in private practice at Waitemata Endoscopy and Specialist Centre. 

He is half German and half Chinese, was born in Japan, and grew up in Whangarei. He completed his medical training at Auckland University, and has worked in Hospitals around the North Island. In 2019 he was the first New Zealander to be awarded a fellowship role in Tokyo, Japan, where, under the tutelage of leading world experts was able to learn new techniques to improve patient comfort performing gastroscopy and colonoscopy, as well as enhanced methods to pick up subtle abnormalities and accurately diagnose and then resect early gastrointestinal cancer.

If diagnosed early, pre-cancers or cancers may be safely and completely removed endoscopically without the need for invasive surgery or chemotherapy. He is a lecturer both at home to his 3 young children and also to medical students at the University of Auckland. 

I am passionate about supporting people with diabetes, about educating providers, patients, families of patients and have many years of experience working both within and across the primary and secondary care sectors.  

I am a 5th generation Kiwi but happenstance meant my medical training was completed in the United States (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine). Following a 3-year residency in Family Practice, I completed a Faculty Development Fellowship and subsequently joined the faculty of my training institution to teach in-patient and out-patient medicine to post-graduate trainees and medical school students.

In 2007, I set up and ran GPSI Diabetes, the first publicly funded primary care-based diabetes specialty service in New Zealand. Today, my work across the sectors continues in my relatively new role as  Consultant Diabetologist, Te Whatu Ora Taranaki.

Michele Garrett is a podiatrist with 25 years of clinical experience leading diabetes foot services. She serves as the Professional Lead for Podiatry at Te Whatu Ora in the Northern Region.

Michele chairs the Northern Region Diabetic Foot Advisory Group, is a member of the Northern Region Diabetes Leadership Group and serves as an Executive Member of the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes (NZSSD).

Her research interests include the cultural context of foot health in Aotearoa and its impact on attitudes towards diabetes-related foot issues. As a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland, she is investigating using administrative data to reduce diabetes foot problems and address health inequities.

Lisa works in diabetes, diabetes in pregnancy and renal services at Counties Manukau District - Te Whatu Ora.  Lisa is also a Team Lead for Psychological Medicine.

Samora is a qualified Community Social Worker from West Auckland, who has worked as a youth worker and health promoter since 2019. Her introduction into Sexual Health Promotion began in 2021 when she joined the Education Unit under Auckland Sexual Health Services, where she was able to apply her youth work engagement skills in supporting students from High Schools across Tamaki Makaurau involved in the ‘Peer Sexuality Support Programme’ PSSP.

Since June of this year, Samora is now serving as the ‘Senior Services & Outreach Coordinator’ for the Burnett Foundation Aotearoa with a focus on seeing through the organizations goal of supporting Rainbow & Takatāpui communities further, whether this is around accessing PrEP, or upholding key sexual health information, and refining appropriate language when testing our communities for HIV & other STIs to reduce stigma.

Karen is the Senior Medical Practitioner at the Mangere Refugee Health Service and worked on the Refugee Healthpathways as the clinical editor.  She has worked in GP, urgent care, as the Refugee Health Medical Officer for MBIE and for Médecins Sans Frontières. Karen’s mum is a former refugee from Vietnam who came to NZ in the 70s.

Bryn worked in General Practice in Counties Manukau practices for nearly 20 years. For the last 7 years he has worked in public health, based in the National Public Health Service Northern Region (previously known as ARPHS). He is involved in many areas of communicable disease control, including outbreak management, disease surveillance, enteric diseases, acute rheumatic fever, and education and training.

Bryn is passionate about disease prevention and health literacy and loves nothing more than quality time exploring and taking photos with his family. 

Gordon Royle is a graduate of Otago Medical School. After moving to Auckland he undertook a Masters in Molecular Biology, and went on to train in Haematology. For the last 12 years he has been working as a Haematologist and researcher at Middlemore Hospital, and is a senior lecturer with Auckland University s School of Medicine. A particular interest is Coagulation Haematology. His clinical research experience includes the role of PI in several new oral anticoagulant trials. Prior research experience includes seven years  molecular biology in the USA including two years at The Salk Institute.

Dr Anna Elinder Camburn is a New Zealand-trained hematologist with specialist expertise in myeloproliferative and myelodysplastic disorders as well as chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Anna is actively involved in haematology research and is the lead investigator for several clinical trials in New Zealand.

Rory is a Consultant Haematologist at North Shore Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand Waitemata. He undertook a two year clinical and research-based fellowship in lymphoma and CLL at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

He is an Early Career Clinician Researcher with the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group, and is site primary investigator or sub-investigator on multiple active studies.

His main area of interest in haematology is lymphoid malignancies. Rory is otherwise husband, father of three children, and keen on endurance sports.

Albert obtained his GP Fellowship in 2022 and is now a 2nd year Registrar in the Australasian College of Medical Administrators as he looks to utilise his leadership skills and direct his passion for change for the betterment of Primary Care. In this talk, he will share the surprising findings from auditing 1,000 Electronic Discharge Summaries and efforts to address Transfer of Care issues in the Northern Region.