Friday Afternoon Plenary and Equity Award Finalists
Friday, May 23, 2025 |
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
Bay Trust Forum |
Speaker
Ms Erina Korohina
Senior Researcher
Manawaora Integrated Health & Research
Chair
Biography
Mrs Vicki Wade
First Nations Senior Research Fellow
Menzies School of Health Research
Contributing to the ethical space, and becoming culturally safe
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMBiography
Vicki Wade is a senior Noongar woman (nurse) with over 40 years of experience in health at state and national levels. Vicki is a recipient of multiple national awards including the 2019 AHHA Sidney Sax medal and CSANZ Indigenous Health lifetime award for her contributions to Australian health services policy, delivery and research, particularly in relation to Indigenous heart health.
Dr Swati Mukherjee
Monash University
Judge
Biography
Anna Rolleston
The Centre for Health
Judge
Biography
Mrs Rebecca Eddington
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Health New Zealand Nelson Marlborough
Judge
Biography
Dr Liam Gilheany-Black
Senior House Officer
Health New Zealand Waikato
The Te Kūiti Access to Cardiology Pilot Study (TKACPS) – Outcomes of people who required tertiary services referral following TKACPS screening protocol
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
Liam is a House Officer working at Waikato Hospital. Of Ngaati Te Ata and Waikato descent, Liam is passionate about improving Maaori health outcomes and rural medicine.
Mr Ev Tolerton
Pharmacist Prescriber
Pharmacy Services Waitaha Canterbury
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment by Pharmacy in Secondary Care (CVD RAP)
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Ev Tolerton is the cardiology pharmacy team leader at Christchurch public hospital, a role he has had the past 10 years. He is co-convenor of the NZ Hospital Pharmacy Association cardiology special interest network and recently registered as a Pharmacist Prescriber in cardiology.
Ms Daman Kaur
Nurse Practitioner
Te Whatu Ora New Zealand
Telehealth Heart Failure Clinics for access, equity and accelerated uptitration in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Daman Kaur is working as Nurse Practitioner in rural and remote regions of New Zealand and has passion for access and equity of care for all cardiac patients. Daman has specific interest in Heart failure and has been working to imporve care provision and models of care in HF provision of care in her region and has set up remote HF clinics and received Inaugral clinical innovation award for same and is current co-chair of Heart Failure Working Group. Telehealth has lots of untapped benefits and needs more exploring and thats her topic of presentation today.
