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William Pike
William Pike – All passion, No limits! William prides himself as being an ordinary kiwi bloke, however those that have heard him speak will undoubtedly think the opposite. As an accomplished motivational speaker, an author, an amputee, 2015 Young New Zealander of the year finalist and an international role model – William is a leader and an achiever who resonates passion and success without limits. William is an avid outdoorsman with an immensely powerful story of being critically injured in a volcanic eruption. He motivates wide-ranging audiences to be passionate, resilient, embrace challenges and ensure there are no limits placed on what you and your team want to achieve.
William has an infectious enthusiasm for adventure, life and fun. His character and outlook on life are nicely summed up by the title of his popular autobiography, Every Day’s A Good Day. William has a Bachelor of Education with First Class Honours. He is an experienced Primary School teacher. Today William is the face of the William Pike Challenge Award which has grown from strength-to-strength over the past 3 years. With 50 schools / groups in NZ and close to 1100 students, the William Pike Challenge Award enabling students to embrace challenges, explore the outdoors, engage with their community and interact with positive role models. www.wiliampike.co.nz.
Check out this video for more information on the William Pike Challenge Award
Lisa Scott – Conference MC
Lisa Scott is a satirist and lifestyle columnist whose career has been shaped by the countries she has visited. Returning from the Middle East in 2009 to find all the jobs were gone, she decided to become a writer. Since then she has won a variety of awards, including a Qantas in 2010 and Magazine Publishers Association Journalist of the Year in 2011. Her first book, Travels with my Economist was published in 2012, her second, Kindness and Lies came out in October 2014. Arrested and deported from America by Homeland Security in July 2015 while on her way there to write a travel book, she has had no choice but to continue to write columns for Next magazine and the Otago Daily Times, as well as regular features for North & South and NZ Life & Leisure. Lisa lives in Dunedin with a large economist.
Jan Aitken, BN, PGCert HealthSci, RNFSA, AdvCoaching CoachU
Getting Personal
Jan graduated as an RN from Southland Community College in 1985. She has worked in Surgical wards, inservice education and research but predominantly in operating theatre.
Early on in her nursing career she became very aware of the strong connection between mind and body and the importance of looking after both for good health. This led her to train as a Life Coach, graduating from CoachU in 2004 with her Advanced Coaching certificate. Since then she has worked as a Life Coach in her own company, Fit for Life Coaching, along with continuing perioperative nursing in the Day Surgery Unit at Dunedin Hospital and as a Surgical Assistant to several Dunedin surgeons.
She is passionate about health professionals looking after themselves and she strongly believes in the importance of developing both professional and personal skills to be the best we can.
Jan has a fortnightly life coaching column in the Otago Daily Times weekend magazine “The Mix”. She is currently studying toward a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy.
Tricia Cairns
Paediatric Consent
Tricia Cairns is dually-trained as a registered nurse and a lawyer. She is currently Clinical Coordinator of the PACU at Mercy Hospital, Dunedin. Tricia has a particular interest in medico-legal issues and chose to research Consent and the issue of Informed Consent in the course of completing her LLB. She remains current in respect of Informed Consent issues and regularly provides education to staff on Consent, ensuring they are both up-to-date with legislative changes and recent Health and Disability cases concerning Consent. Tricia enjoys being in a position to utilise both her nursing and legal skills in her current role.
Anna Campbell, PhD, Managing Director – AbacusBio
AbacusBio, as a company, is known for its great working culture. This hasn’t happened by accident and Anna will share her practical knowledge of what it takes to build great teams, even when times are tough in a wider organisational/industry context.
Anna specialises in using commercially focused science to improve agricultural food products. She has a PhD in Biotechnology and in her desire to become more commercially focused, she joined AbacusBio, an agri-technology firm, eight years ago where she is now the Managing Director. In her role at AbacusBio, she works across multiple countries and cultures and from this, she brings diverse insights into what makes teams really tick.
Alan Carstens
Endoscopic Scoliosis Surgery
Alan Carstens is a New Zealand trained Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon. He has done 18 months of fellowship training at the Auckland Starship Childrens Hospital and Brisbane Mater Childrens Hospital in paediatric spine surgery.
Together with Bruce Hodgson (founding surgeon) and Ginny Martin (coordinator) run the South Island Scoliosis Service. He has successfully introduced the innovative technique of thoracoscopic scoliosis surgery for this population.
Dirk De Ridder, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurological Foundation Chair of Neurosurgery, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand.
He is founder and director of the BRAI²N (Brain Research consortium for Advanced, Innovative & Interdisciplinary Neuromodulation). His main interest is the understanding and treatment of phantom perceptions (sound, pain), especially by use of functional imaging navigated non-invasive (TMS, tDCS, tACS, tRNS, LORETA neurofeedback) and invasive (implants) neuromodulation techniques. He has developed “burst” and “noise” stimulation as novel stimulation designs for implants, and is working on other stimulation designs.
He has published 35 bookchapters, co-edited the Textbook of Tinnitus, and has authored or co-authored 221 papers of which 199 pubmed listed papers. 100 papers deal with phantom sound perception. He is reviewer for more than 60 journals.
Terence Doyle
MRI of the Breast; present and future applications
Terence Doyle is Professor of Radiology at the University of Otago and a Consultant Radiologist at Dunedin Hospital. Professor Doyle has been involved with breast diagnosis, both mammography and ultrasound, for many years beginning with the National Breast Cancer Screening Programme when it was first introduced into New Zealand in 1992. After a year sabbatical at the Department of Radiology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge UK in 2015, his breast work is now exclusively in MRI, diagnosis, screening and biopsy.
Lesley Elliott
Lesley Elliott describes herself as nurse and mother. Lesley lives in Dunedin and is the mother of two adult sons who both live in Australia. Her only daughter Sophie died at the hands of a former boyfriend in 2008 in the safety of her own home. She was only 22 years old. Since then Lesley has committed herself to ensuring young people in particular can recognise the signs in an abusive relationship that she and Sophie missed. To do this Lesley set up the Sophie Elliott Foundation and, through a partnership with New Zealand Police, developed the one day workshop for year 12 students, Loves Me Not
A long serving nurse in Dunedin Hospital’s Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit Lesley has been recognised for her work to help curb New Zealand’s statistics around family violence. Awards include a Paul Harris Rotary Fellowship, the Next Woman of the Year title, Supreme Award at the Westpac/Fairfax Media Woman of Influence Awards and in 2015 was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Lesley has co-authored two books, Sophie’s Legacy and Loves Me Not- How to keep Relationships Safe.
Sarah Eton RN PGDipHealSc
Passing the Baton: The Challenge of Change in Clinical Practice
Sarah is employed at Mercy Hospital, a private surgical hospital in Dunedin. She has dual roles as a Registered Nurse in the PACU as well as being the Theatre Nurse Educator.
Sarah has worked in PACU’s throughout New Zealand and in the UK, and has always being passionate about teaching. Becoming theatre educator two years ago, in addition to her PACU role, means Sarah has the best two jobs possible! Her special interests include patient assessment, clinical handover, preceptorship and quality improvement.
Sarah is currently working towards her Masters in Nursing at the University of Otago; researching clinical handover in the perioperative environment. Sarah is the student representative on the Synergy Board at Otago, which is responsible for academic governance and strategic oversight of various postgraduate subject areas, including nursing.
Currently a member of PNC, Sarah is the incoming National Committee Representative for Otago. She looks forward to being able to contribute to the ongoing professional development of the perioperative nursing sector.
Sarah will speak on the challenge of change in clinical practice, as related to nursing handover in the PACU and theatre suite.
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Linda Grady
The Retrieval Team
Linda Grady’s current position within Southern District Health Board is that of Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). She believes in the achievement of clinical excellence and advancing expertise, not just within the ICU Team but throughout the entire organisation. The phenomenon, that the more you learn the more you want to know, is accurate and an absolute for Linda. She has been successful with post graduate study in the fields of critical care, aeromedical retrieval, advanced health assessment, leadership and management and completed clinical masters in education. “All my postgraduate study, skill and experience has been aimed at improving the outcome and experience for my students, for my colleagues but more importantly for the patients and their families.”
Positions Held within the organisation:
Technician
Registered Nurse
Charge Nurse
Educator
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Katherine Hall
What is a Good Life? How Ancient Greek Thought can still Help us in the 21st Century
Dr Katherine Hall has had an interesting trip through life, medicine and the humanities. She originally graduated in Medicine from Sydney University and was a registrar for five years in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, escaping to the world of medical ethics in which she gained a PhD looking at the cognitive processes intensivists use when making decisions about ethical dilemmas. She subsequently worked as a lecturer with the University of Otago then moving into General Practice where she gained her College Fellowship. Over the past 4 years she has been studying Classics at the University of Otago and this year returned as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Practice and Rural Health at the University of Otago. She is passionate about the importance of medical humanities in the training of healthcare professionals, her family and her cats all in equal measure.
Amelia Howard-Hill
Carving out your own career pathway– Career planning workshop
Amelia Howard-Hill is a self-employed Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) based in Christchurch. Amelia works over the entire perioperative continuum, including clinics, theatre and ward rounds. She was one of the first cohort of nurses trained to be a Registered Nurse First Surgical Assistant (RNFSA) in New Zealand and has gone on to complete her Masters in Nursing, with first class honours and a Postgraduate Diploma in clinical teaching, with distinction.
She sees the RNFSA and NP roles as an excellent way for keen and enthusiastic nurses to remain within the clinical work they love rather than change roles/professions to further their career. Certainly this was the catalyst for her decision to become an RNFSA and on to NP, and one that Amelia enthusiastically recommends to others considering a similar journey.
Amelia will be speaking on advanced practice in Perioperative nursing with a focus on career progression and ways perioperative nurses can positively impact patient care and influence the health systems they work in.
Maree Hodgson
Maree is a Device Category Manager at PHARMAC currently focused on managing the orthopaedic implant category. She has a background in the management of medicines and medical devices in both public and private hospital settings with strong procurement, logistics and supply chain management knowledge. She is keen to see that publically funded access to medical devices, and new technology, remains sustainable in the years to come.
Gabriel Lau
Dr Lau, is a graduate of the University of Otago Medical School. He trained in diagnostic and interventional radiology at Dunedin Public Hospital, New Zealand, then worked at National University Hospital, Singapore for just under 4 years, before returning to Dunedin 10 years ago. He works at both Otago Radiology Limited, a subsidiary of Pacific Radiology Group, and at Dunedin Public Hospital.
In addition to the above, he is currently a RANZCR College Part 1 and Part 2 examiner, EBIR examiner, Editor for the Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology section of JMIRO, the Treasurer for IRSA and an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Otago.
His interests are in Oncological, Abdominal and Vascular Imaging and Intervention.
He is a season ticket holder with the Highlanders and Otago rugby teams, along with his two daughters, Isabella and Vivienne. In their spare time they occasional search for Pokémons.
James Letts
Endovascular Aortic Repair
MBChB FRANZCR,Interventional Radiologist
Dunedin Public Hopsital, Trained at Otago Medical School, graduated 1983.
Dr James Letts graduated in 1983; he worked in Dunedin and Napier as a house surgeon before working in the UK for 5 years undertaking basic surgical training.
James commenced his Vocational Radiology training in Dunedin in 2001, finishing in 2006. He went on to do his Fellowships in Musculoskeletal Radiology in Melbourne in 2007 and Interventional Radiology in Adelaide in 2009-10.
James in currently a Consultant Radiologist at Dunedin Hospital as well as a partner at Otago Radiology.
James will be talking on Endovascular Aorta Replacements.
Elspeth McLean
Bullying – Can it bloom in your Workplace?
Elspeth is probably best known in the south as a columnist with the Otago Daily Times.
A former health reporter with the newspaper, she continues to write occasional articles on issues related to health services. Other current roles include adult literacy tutoring, assisting her partner in WorkRights (an employment relations consultancy) and serving on the board of employee assistance programme provider Workplace Support (Southern). She is also a trained mediator. During time as a union delegate some years ago, she became aware of the insidious nature of workplace bullying and its long-term effects. Elspeth has long held concerns about the low level of understanding of bullying and is keen to raise awareness with both employees and employers about how to identify and ultimately prevent it in the workplace.
Photo courtesy of Otago Daily Times.
Megan Nagel
PHARMAC and Hospital Medical Devices
Megan is a Senior Implementation Lead at PHARMAC, with a particular focus on initiatives to promote PHARMAC’s work in hospital medical devices. Megan has a background in marketing and communications and has previously worked in the area of Injury Prevention before moving to PHARMAC. She has a strong interest in change management and stakeholder engagement to ensure any change impacts are well understood and supported with the right messages to the right people at the right time.
Mandy Pagan
Prevention of Perioperative Pressure Injuries
As wound clinical nurse specialist I work across primary and secondary health care sectors. I lead nurse-led wound clinics and have a strong primary focus working with the older person and healthcare professionals, including caregivers, in the community and aged care facilities. I am passionate about learning and the sharing of knowledge to empower others. My work ethos is summarised by the quote from Benjamin Franklin “Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I may remember, Involve me and I learn.”
Ann Patton RN, Post Grad Dip
ERAS
I have extensive surgical experience including, working in the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit, acute pain service, and on ward 4a (surgical) at Dunedin Hospital over a number of years. I have a post graduate diploma in nursing practice from Deakin University. I am currently employed as a 4th floor surgical coordinator (0.5FTE) and an ERAS (enhanced recovery after surgery) nurse (0.5FTE) for all arranged colorectal, liver, and upper GI surgeries. I have a real passion for trying to keep patients at an optimal level during their surgical experience.
Maxine Ramsay
Your Digital Tattoo: Managing Your Online Presence
As a library and information professional working for the National Library of New Zealand in Dunedin, my job involves working with schools across Otago and Southland. The focus of my work is school library development incorporating digital literacy, reading engagement, and modern learning environments. I am particularly interested in digital literacy including content creation, use, and the role of social media.
June Richardson
ENT emergencies in the workplace, home environment and sports field and subsequent perioperative journey
June Richardson qualified as a Registered Comprehensive Nurse from Auckland Technical Institute in 1986. Travel and work opportunities saw June accept a role to train as a perioperative nurse in Scotland in 1998. On returning to New Zealand, June commenced employment in the main Operating Theatres at Dunedin Hospital. Her speciality area became ENT in 2001. A desire for a new challenge meant June left to become an ENT Outpatients Clinic nurse in 2012. She shares her passion for fun company, fine wines and fascinating books with a fabulous husband and canine companion.
Robert Scroggins
Surgical Smoke: New Information on and old Problem – A Review of Current Literature
Rob Scroggins is the Clinical Programs Manager for Buffalo Filter. He is a registered nurse with 25 years of operating room experience prior to joining Buffalo Filter. He has a wide variety of experience in multiple specialties including orthopaedics, general surgery, vascular surgery, neurosurgery and others. He was also Laser Safety officer for his facility and is a certified medical laser safety officer through the American Board of Laser Safety, and a member of AORN.
He had a twenty one year career in the National Guard and Army Reserve beginning as a medic at the rank of private and rising through the ranks eventually retiring as a Captain, Army Nurse Corps. He had one combat tour in Desert Storm as a Wardmaster in a MASH hospital.
Other experiences include firefighter, EMT, heavy rescue team and recovery diver. He enjoys a variety of outdoor pursuits including fishing and camping. He taught wilderness first aid and survival and Hunter Education for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. He enjoys Hunting, Fishing, Camping, Hiking and spending time with family.
His current position involves research into the hazards of surgical plume and ways to mitigate this hazard, assist engineering in development of new safety products for the operating room, and provide education to hospitals and other facilities around the world as an international speaker on the topic of surgical smoke plume and Operating Room Safety.
Stephen Sinclair
Use of Ultrasound in Cannulation
Australian born, moved to Christchurch in 1974 to train at Christchurch Public Hospital. Graduated in 1978. Returned to Australia to undertake Operating Theatre Certificate at RPAH in Sydney. Returned to Christchurch working in the Peri operative setting in Christchurch. Completed Advanced Diploma in Nursing while at TPMH. Returned to Bundaberg in sunny Queensland to manage a new Peri operative unit in a local private hospital. Transitioned to Medical Imaging nursing in 1998 as inaugural MI nurse at Bundaberg Hospital. The role expanded to include PICC insertion and ultrasound guided cannulation. My current role is CNC Cannulation providing PICC and PIVC service to the hospital.
My interest are family, sixties music, travel and developing MINA
Marianne Te Tau
What are nurses doing in Anaesthetic Preoperative Assessment?
Ko Tautari me Rangiuru oku maunga
Ko Waikato me Kaituna oku awa
Ko Tainui me Te Arawa oku waka
Ko Waikato me Tuhourangi oku iwi
Ko Ngati Raukawa me Tapuika oku hapuu
Ko Ruapeka me Tuhourangi oku marae
Ko Hoturoa me Tamatekapua oku tangata
Ko Dean toku hoa rangatira
No Kai Tahu me Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairarapa ia
Ko Rikki, ratau ko Jesse, ko Joshua maua Tamariki
Ko Maryjane raua ko Keion aku mokopuna
Ko Marianne Te Tau toku ingoa
I have been nursing for 12 years and have worked in both medical and surgical settings at Dunedin Hospital. I Completed a Master of Nursing in 2014 from Massey University. I am a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Anaesthetic Preoperative Assessment at Dunedin Hospital (position established June 2015 when the Anaesthetic Preoperative Assessment Clinic (APAC) became a permanent service at Dunedin Hospital).
Lucy Warren
Patient Experience of Injury and Recovery
Since receiving her STOTT certifications in mat and apparatus in 2000, Lucy has been helping others reach their individual fitness goals through the mind/body connection. Lucy began as a dancer and spent 10 years performing in numerous shows for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, as a featured dancer and dance captain. Through her pursuit of dance and its rigorous training, Lucy followed her natural sense of precision and discovered the wonders of Pilates. However, a serious car accident in 2002 left Lucy with a fractured neck resulting in a fusion and a serious head injury. She credits Pilates for her exceptional recovery. Having gone through such a challenging injury, Lucy understands better than most the importance and emotion of a rehabilitatory exercise programme. Applying creativity, communication and motivation, she is utilising her extensive dance knowledge combined with her Pilates education to teach her clients. Lucy’s goal is to create a fun, safe and exciting Pilates experience that will satisfy each person’s specific needs.