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Members

Andrew Moore - Chair

Andrew Moore is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago. His teaching, research and community service activities focus on ethics, political philosophy and bioethics.

Andrew’s practical experience in clinical ethics and health research ethics includes previous health and disability ethics committee memberships at the Otago regional level and with the National Ethics Committee on Assisted Human Reproduction. He was also previously a member of the human subjects ethics committee at the University of Otago. In addition, he is a member of the Health Research Council of New Zealand’s Data and Safety Monitoring Board for New Zealand-led clinical trials.

Andrew’s policy experience includes previous membership of the National Health Committee and Public Health Advisory Committee.

Geoff Fougere – Deputy Chair

Geoff Fougere is a senior lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine (University of Otago). He also holds honorary appointments in Sociology at the University of Canterbury and the University of Auckland and is an External Faculty Affiliate of the Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia University. His teaching and research interests focus on the analysis of political and organisational change and public policy, with a particular focus on the health sector.

Geoff’s policy experience includes membership of the National Health Committee and chair of the Public Health Advisory Committee.

Lorna Dyall
Lorna Dyall (Ngāti Maniapoto) is a senior lecturer at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Auckland University. Her teaching and research focuses on improving Māori health and wellbeing. Particular current areas of interest are positive aging, gambling, and Māori health workforce development.

Lorna has worked widely in Māori health in the public sector working for the Department of Health, Wellington Area Health Board and Te Puni Kokiri. Lorna has a Master’s degree in Public Policy, a post-graduate Diploma in Community Health, and a PhD which focuses on gambling as an emerging health issue for Māori.

Lorna was awarded a Queen Service Medal for Māori Health in June 2009.

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Michael Findlay

Michael Findlay is the foundation professor of oncology at Auckland University and honorary professor at the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre. He is also a practising medical oncologist in the Auckland Regional Cancer and Blood Service.

Michael has published in the area of cancer research, particularly in the area of clinical trials in cancer of the gastro-intestinal tract. He is deputy chair of the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group, having been an active investigator for over a decade.

More recently Michael’s major focus has been in developing Cancer Trials New Zealand – an academic research organisation established to facilitate and support cancer research to improve cancer outcomes in New Zealand. Michael is the director of Cancer Trials New Zealand.

Andrew Hall

Andrew Hall sustained a spinal cord injury in 1983 as a 19 year old whilst at Massey University. After completing an agricultural economics degree at Lincoln University, Andrew has undertaken computer programming work in New Zealand and Australia, and has farmed in Central Otago.

Andrew is the chief executive of the New Zealand Spinal Trust, a consumer support and service providing organisation. He is the current chair of the National Spinal Cord Injury Group, and is a trustee of the Sporting Futures Charitable Trust.

Robert Logan

Robert Logan has extensive experience of the health sector through a range of roles in clinical practice, management and governance and until recently chaired the National Health Committee, National Chief Medical Advisors Group, and the Workforce Taskforce. He is currently Chief Medical Advisor, Hutt DHB, and a Crown Monitor at Wanganui DHB.

Robert has been actively involved in research in New Zealand and overseas and has published a number of papers on clinical uncertainty.

Joanna Manning

Joanna Manning is associate professor and deputy dean of the Law Faculty, University of Auckland.

Joanna is an academic lawyer, teaching and researching principally in the fields of medical law and ethics, and torts and accident compensation. She has published widely, particularly on issues relating to informed consent to medical treatment and the Code of Patients’ Rights. She is a contributing author to the leading New Zealand medical law textbook, Skegg and Paterson, Medical Law in New Zealand (Thomson Brookers, 2006).

Joanna has a practical background in prosecution and civil litigation. She was the consumer representative on the Medical Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee for 10 years.

Robin Olds

Robin Olds is chief executive of the Health Research Council of New Zealand.

Robin is a medical graduate of the University of Otago with postgraduate training in pathology, and is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Pathologists. He has also researched molecular genetics of haemostatic disorders at Oxford University as a Nuffield Dominions Medical Fellow.

Robin has been chair in Pathology at the Dunedin School of Medicine where his research was focused on molecular aspects of the major mood disorders, particularly manic depression. Robin was head of the Department of Pathology and had additional roles in management of the medical curriculum.

Ann Richardson

Ann Richardson is an epidemiologist and public health physician. She is particularly interested in public health, epidemiology and cancer screening.

Ann currently works as a public health physician in the areas of information and capacity building, and chronic disease prevention for the public health service of the Canterbury District Health Board.

Ann obtained her undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in medicine and public health in New Zealand, was a clinical research fellow in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford, and subsequently worked in the Department of Public Health and General Practice at the University of Otago Christchurch campus.

Elizabeth Smales

Libby Smales is a palliative care physician who trained in London and San Francisco. She came to New Zealand in 1979.

Libby is now shifting her focus from clinical to psychological practice, and workshop facilitation. She has a private practice, working with people in crisis. She has wide experience of practising and teaching palliative care in New Zealand and overseas.

Libby has been medical director of Cranford Hospice, Hawke’s Bay; president of Hospice New Zealand; Hon. Treasurer of The Asia Pacific Hospice Network; and president of the Hawke’s Bay New Zealand Medical Association. She has also worked as a general practitioner, in Family Planning and as an assessor for ACC, working with men and women who have been sexually abused.

Jacob Te Kurapa
Ko Mataatua te Waka; Ko Manawaru te Maunga; Ko Ohinemataroa te Awa; Ko Mataatua te Marae; Ko Ngati Tawahaki te Hapu; Ko Tuhoe te Iwi; Ko Hakopa Te Kurapa taku ingoa. Tihei Mauri Ora!

Jacob Te Kurapa is currently the youngest elected member of the Whakatane District Council and as such brings a youth perspective to the role. He is also chair of the Murupara Community Board.

Jacob has worked in health as a Community Action Youth and Drugs Service Coordinator; a health promotion position dedicated to finding alternative and positive solutions for young people in Murupara and the surrounding districts.

Jacob has wide-ranging governance experience, including roles with a school board of trustees, a community health provider, a community development and economic provider, and a number of charitable trusts.

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Robin Wray
Robin Wray has worked in his various communities for 40 years, principally in the fields of social welfare, health, and education. During his career, he has been a social worker in Auckland and Whakatane, a Trustee of the Eastbay Energy Trust, a Trustee of the Auckland Regional Migrants Services Trust and a Councillor for Waiariki Polytechnic.

Robin has also been involved in various health organisations in the Bay of Plenty region for 10 years. He has been the chair of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board, Eastbay Health and the Bay of Plenty Bio-Medical Ethics Committee.

Robin is currently a Judicial Justice of the Peace sitting in the Auckland, North Shore and Waitakere District Courts, is an active Rotarian, a Past President and Paul Harris Fellow. He is a board member of the Rural Education Activities Programme Inc (REAP) in Whakatane and on the REAP Aotearoa NZ national executive. Whilst he lives in Auckland, Robin has a dairy farm in the Eastern Bay of Plenty.

Page last updated: 11 December 2009

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