Emma is a Paediatric infectious diseases specialist at Starship Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor at the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Auckland. Emma has extensive experience in anti-infective prescribing, antimicrobial stewardship and immunisation in the prevention of infections in children as a clinician-researcher. She has over 70 publications on childhood infectious diseases. She is a clinical advisor to the NZ formulary for children, leads work in writing the National Antibiotic Guidelines for children and has been part of the Anti-infectives subcommittee for PHARMAC since 2010. She collaborated in a randomised controlled trial in impetigo evaluating topical management amongst school children in south Auckland.
Emma has had leadership roles across NZ, including within the Paediatric Society of NZ, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases and is a current member of the National Immunisation Technical Advisory Group and an editor in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Pneumonia journal. She has teenage boys and always appreciates anyone’s expert advice on them
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