Our Team

 

We've been lucky enough to recruit many of Aotearoa's finest Emergency Medicine Specialists (FACEMs) and the equivalent number of registered nurses (RNs). Despite our staff being dispersed across the motu we have fostered a high-performing supportive team spirit. Our clinical team is supported by an operational headquarters in Kirikiriroa Hamilton.

Senior Leadership

Johnny Louie

Johnny Louie

Group CEOMBA, BSc, BNursing, PGDip AdvNursing, RN

Johnny heads up two New Zealand owned and operated businesses - Emergency Consult and Stella Secure Business Platforms - both of which share a vision to combine expertise with cutting-edge technology...

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Amanda Makgill

Amanda Makgill

Contracts & HR

Amanda’s experience in developing family businesses and start-ups helped cement a strong foundation for Emergency Consult while the business was in its infancy. Amanda has broad experience across strategic, financial and operational functions.

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Megan Abraham

Megan Abraham

Clinical Services ManagerRN BHSc PGCert

Having worked in various leadership roles with Te Whatu Ora, Megan joins Emergency Consult with the skills and drive to optimise patient outcomes and efficiencies while providing support and guidance to clinicians.

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Dr John Bonning

Dr John Bonning

Clinical Director | Emergency Medicine SpecialistFACEM MBChB

Dr Bonning has been a doctor for almost 35 years and has specialised in emergency medicine for more than 18 years. He has served in numerous healthcare leadership roles including...

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Praneesh Prasad

Praneesh Prasad

Sales and Product ManagerBCom

Praneesh joined Emergency Consult headquarters from Stellar Secure Business Platforms and brings with him sales, product development, customer service and team building expertise. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce...

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Hugh McAlister

Hugh McAlister

Group CFOCA BMS

Hugh is a seasoned Chartered Accountant and senior leader with many years’ experience in senior finance roles. His rich work history includes financial and business roles in the UK, Ireland, Mozambique and Kenya, as well as here in Aotearoa.

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Clinical Governance

Dr Martyn Harvey

Dr Martyn Harvey

Co-Founder | Emergency Medicine Specialist MD FACEM MBChB

Dr Harvey is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and Emergency Medicine Researcher with over 75 publications to his name. He has been practicing Emergency Medicine for over 25 years...

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Dr John Bonning

Dr John Bonning

Clinical Director | Emergency Medicine SpecialistFACEM MBChB

Dr Bonning has been a doctor for almost 35 years and has specialised in emergency medicine for more than 18 years. He has served in numerous healthcare leadership roles including...

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Tim Simmonds

Tim Simmonds

Clinical Nurse ManagerRN BNurs PGCertHSc

Tim brings a positive, holistic outlook thanks to a multi-faceted background, which includes thorough nursing experience as well as earlier career exploits in cheffing, sales, and construction...

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Megan Abraham

Megan Abraham

Clinical Services ManagerRN BHSc PGCert

Having worked in various leadership roles with Te Whatu Ora, Megan joins Emergency Consult with the skills and drive to optimise patient outcomes and efficiencies while providing support and guidance to clinicians.

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Amanda Makgill

Amanda Makgill

Contracts & HR

Amanda’s experience in developing family businesses and start-ups helped cement a strong foundation for Emergency Consult while the business was in its infancy. Amanda has broad experience across strategic, financial and operational functions.

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Dr Leslie Crebassa

Dr Leslie Crebassa

Emergency Medicine SpecialistFACEM FACEP ABEM BA

Dr Crebassa grew up in the United States, where she gained her medical doctorate and became fully certified in Emergency Medicine before moving to New Zealand. Within a year of arriving here in 2018, Dr Crebassa also became a Fellow...

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Doctors

Dr Martyn Harvey

Dr Martyn Harvey

Co-Founder | Emergency Medicine Specialist MD FACEM MBChB

Dr Harvey is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and Emergency Medicine Researcher with over 75 publications to his name. He has been practicing Emergency Medicine for over 25 years...

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Dr Giles Chanwai

Dr Giles Chanwai

Co-Founder | Emergency & Travel Medicine Specialist FACEM MBChB DipObs DipPaeds DipTravelMed

Dr Chanwai has a depth of knowledge and practical skills developed over 20+ years of practising emergency medicine. He specialises in both Emergency Medicine and Travel Medicine.

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Dr John Bonning

Dr John Bonning

Clinical Director | Emergency Medicine SpecialistFACEM MBChB

Dr Bonning has been a doctor for almost 35 years and has specialised in emergency medicine for more than 18 years. He has served in numerous healthcare leadership roles including...

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Dr Mustafa AlShaar

Dr Mustafa AlShaar

Co-Founder | Emergency Medicine Specialist | General Practitioner FACEM FRNZCGP MBChB

Dr Alshaar is both a Specialist and GP – he obtained a Fellowship Degree in Emergency Medicine in 2012 and another in General Practice in 2018 - and has an impressive knowledge of the healthcare landscape in Aotearoa.

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Dr Thiri Aung-Holebrook

Dr Thiri Aung-Holebrook

Emergency Medicine Specialist MB BCh BAO FACEM

Dr Aung-Holebrook has spent much of the last decade as an Emergency Medicine Physician at Auckland Hospital. She thrives on the pace of a big city ED but also knows what it’s like to care for acutely unwell patients without the resources of a tertiary hospital...

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Dr Satra Browne

Dr Satra Browne

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMD FACEM ABEM

Dr Browne completed her undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, then went on to earn her medical degree in New York at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She migrated to Aotearoa in 2011 and settled in Auckland. She has served as an Emergency Specialist throughout the U.S. and Aotearoa...

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Dr Jordan Vincent

Dr Jordan Vincent

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMBChB FACEM

Having recently completed his ACEM Fellowship OSCE, Dr Vincent is thriving on the pace and challenge of emergency medicine. Dr Vincent’s training started at med school in Otago where he was recognised with numerous scholarships and awards...

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Dr Tom Carter

Dr Tom Carter

Emergency Medicine SpecialistBSc DO FACEP FACEM

Dr Carter moved to Aotearoa from the United States in 2016. Lured here by our beaches and mountains, the move has provided lifestyle opportunities as well as career sustainability for Dr Carter, who is heavily involved in research...

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Dr Elizabeth Park

Dr Elizabeth Park

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMD FACEP FACEM

Dr Park trained in emergency medicine in the largest trauma centre in North America. She has engaged in a number of research projects over her career — both clinical and basic sciences, including two research positions at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

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Dr Kat Kabala

Dr Kat Kabala

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMBChB FACEM PGDipHSc PGCertRH BSc

Dr Kabala is an emergency physician, an athlete, an expedition leader, and a sport and event doctor. She has competed internationally in both triathlon and swimming. She has led expeditions to Kilimanjaro and the Grand Canyon.

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Dr Amanda Collins

Dr Amanda Collins

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMBChB FACEM PGDipMedEd DipChildHealth PGCertCPU

Dr Collins began impressive her medical career in Scotland. After graduating Edinburgh Medical School she worked in Glasgow and commenced further studies with the University of Dundee. Upon moving to Aotearoa in 2016...

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Dr Katy Heuser

Dr Katy Heuser

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMBChB(Hons) BSc(Hons) FACEM

Dr Heuser is deeply invested in high quality emergency care. She is particularly motivated by patients with complex presentations, the critically unwell, and geriatric emergencies. Dr Heuser began her studies in the UK. She gained both...

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Dr Mark Sagarin

Dr Mark Sagarin

Emergency Medicine Specialist MD FACEM

Dr Sagarin graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1996 and the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine residency in 2000. After his residency training, and a few years as a consultant in the Boston area, he went to New Mexico for a decade. In 2014 Dr Sagarin left the United States for Aotearoa.

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Dr Mai Nguyen

Dr Mai Nguyen

Emergency Medicine Specialist MD FACEM

Dr Nguyen’s medical career has taken her around the world. She has been published numerous times and has presented in Kuala Lumpur, South Africa, India, Turkey, Vietnam, Puerto Rico and Ecuador. Dr Nguyen completed her medical training in the United States.

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Dr Brad Peckler

Dr Brad Peckler

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMD FACEP FACEM

Dr Peckler received his undergraduate BA from Tulane University (New Orleans) and his medical doctorate from St. George’s University School of Medicine (Grenada). After finishing his training in Emergency Medicine and chief resident year...

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Dr Lucy Edwards

Dr Lucy Edwards

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMBChB FACEM PGCertCPU

Dr Edwards graduated from Sheffield University and worked for a year as a house office at Rotherham, UK before immigrating to New Zealand. She has been in Aotearoa almost two decades...

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Dr Leslie Crebassa

Dr Leslie Crebassa

Emergency Medicine SpecialistFACEM FACEP ABEM BA

Dr Crebassa grew up in the United States, where she gained her medical doctorate and became fully certified in Emergency Medicine before moving to New Zealand. Within a year of arriving here in 2018, Dr Crebassa also became a Fellow...

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Dr Kiri Manning

Dr Kiri Manning

Ngāpuhi | Ngāiterangi
Emergency Medicine Specialist | General Practitioner
MBChB DipEM Adv (ACEM)

Dr Manning is an Emergency Medicine diplomate and has been working in Australasian emergency departments since 2010. But emergency medicine is not her only forte...

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Dr Adrian Kerner

Dr Adrian Kerner

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMBChB FRCS FRCEM PGCEd FACEM

Dr Kerner has practiced medicine in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Tonga - and has also had professional links with Cambodia for many years. His training started in England, where he graduated from the University of Sheffield Medical School...

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Dr Karen Danenhauer

Dr Karen Danenhauer

Emergency Medicine DoctorMD ABEM

Dr Danenhauer is a US-trained emergency doctor who has been working in New Zealand since 2015. The majority of Dr Danenhauer’s career has been spent working in rural settings where she has enjoyed the unique challenges that rural health entails...

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Dr David Haunschmidt

Dr David Haunschmidt

Emergency Medicine SpecialistFACEM DCH PGCertCPU MBChB

Originally from Scotland, Dr Haunschmidt gained his medical degree in Edinburgh and worked around Glasgow for several years before coming to New Zealand in 2016. He has worked in several central and lower North Island hospitals...

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Dr Karina Walters

Dr Karina Walters

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMD PhD FACEM FACEP

Dr Walters gained a PhD in biochemistry before embarking on her medical career. She was educated in Texas where she also trained as an Emergency Medicine Specialist. During the course of her medical degree and emergency medicine residency she completed rotations in both Australia and Costa Rica.

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Dr Elspeth Frascatore

Dr Elspeth Frascatore

Tangata Tiriti | Emergency Medicine Specialist MBChB FACEM DEMT

Dr Frascatore initially trained Glasgow and worked in Edinburgh. She left Scotland in 2006 and has pursued her medical career here in Aotearoa ever since. In addition to her work with Emergency Consult, Dr Frascatore currently serves as a Senior Medical Officer at Te Toka Tumai...

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Dr Marcus Kramer

Dr Marcus Kramer

Senior Medical OfficerMBChB

Dr Kramer has almost three decades’ experience in hands-on clinical care. He graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Auckland University in 1995, thereafter working as a physician here in Aotearoa as well as Qatar and, for a brief stint, supporting aeromedical retrievals from the Solomon Islands.

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Dr Pragati Gautama

Dr Pragati Gautama

Emergency Medicine Doctor | General Practitioner | Rural Medicine SpecialistMBBS BSc(Hons) Dip Obs DTM&H PGDipRCP PGCertCPU PGCertClinEd FDRHMNZ FRNZCGP

Dr Gautama has a wealth of experience spanning multiple specialties and diverse roles in healthcare. She was originally trained at the Royal London Medical School...

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Dr Jenni Hawes

Dr Jenni Hawes

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMBChB BSc(Hons) FACEM

Originally from the UK, Dr Hawes moved to New Zealand in 2010. At that time, she already had several years’ experience working in UK hospitals under her belt. She gained a Bachelor of Science (with honours) majoring in Anatomy in 2003 and completed her medical degree from the University of Leeds...

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Dr Dan Dobbins

Dr Dan Dobbins

Emergency Medicine SpecialistFACEM DO BSc

Originally from the United States, Dr Dobbins relocated to Aotearoa in 2013. He has been a Fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (FACEM) for a decade and is also certified with the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the Wilderness Medicine Institute.

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Dr Chame Blackburn

Dr Chame Blackburn

Emergency Medicine SpecialistMD FACEM

Dr Blackburn completed medical school at the University of Utah before undertaking her Emergency Medicine residency at Albany Medical Center in New York, where she went on to join the staff as an academic emergency physician. She has travelled and worked in diverse rural locations including...

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Dr David Benchetrit

Dr David Benchetrit

Emergency Medicine SpecialistCSCT CAMU DESC-MU

Dr David Benchetrit trained in Marseille, France, and spent more than a decade working across several French hospitals before embarking on an OE in Aotearoa. In New Zealand he worked with Waitematā DHB and Middlemore Hospital, and volunteered with HEMS/Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

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Nurses

Nurse Cate

Nurse Cate

Registered NurseRN BN PGDipHsc

Cate possesses an advanced nursing skill set as well as operational management prowess. She has recently stepped away from her Clinical Nurse Manager role into the acute triage clinical team.

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Nurse Jo

Nurse Jo

Registered NurseRN

Jo has been a Registered Nurse for over 20 years and has a background in emergency and critical care nursing. She grew up living in the UK and Africa and returned to New Zealand after she had begun her nursing career.

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Nurse Wendy

Nurse Wendy

Registered NurseRN MN (Clin)

Registered in 1979, Wendy is a nurse with many years' experience as well as a Master’s Degree in Nursing Practise. She has held a number of management, education and clinical roles...

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Nurse Honey

Nurse Honey

Registered NurseRN PGDipHSc MSN

Honey started nursing in 2008 in the Philippines. She first worked as a clinical instructor then as a hospital nurse in a medical-surgical unit.

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Nurse Allan

Nurse Allan

Registered NurseRN

Allan is a Registered Nurse with 23 years’ experience under his belt. He qualified in the Philippines, where he was also once the Head Nurse of an Emergency Department.

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Nurse Susie

Nurse Susie

Registered NurseRN

Having been a Registered Nurse for over two decades, Susie’s nursing experience is vast. She has 13-years’ worth of experience as an emergency nurse, has a special interest in triage, and is skilled at caring for...

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Nurse Ali

Nurse Ali

Registered NurseRN

Ali has been working in the healthcare sector in Aotearoa for two and a half decades. Her 20-year nursing career spans a number of settings including tertiary hospitals, managed isolation, busy emergency departments and satellite clinics.

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Nurse Judy

Nurse Judy

Registered NurseRN

With over 45 years clinical nursing experience, Judy brings vast and multi-faceted capability. She is a long-standing RN with Waikato DHB’s Nursing Resource Team and has worked in all areas of the hospital...

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Nurse Cielo

Nurse Cielo

Registered NurseRN

Cielo is an experienced Registered Nurse (RN) who has worked within the Waikato DHB for the last decade across a diverse range of clinical settings. Her broad general nursing skills enable her to work across different areas within the hospital...

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Nurse Rojo

Nurse Rojo

Registered NurseRN

Rojo has been emergency nursing for 14 years and has spent the last eight years working in Thames Hospital’s emergency department (ED). Originally from India, Rojo gained his Bachelor of Nursing in Bangalore.

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Nurse Jan

Nurse Jan

Registered NurseRN

Jan has been nursing for 15 years and has developed special interests in health informatics and emergency nursing. She originally gained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in the Philippines...

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Nurse Jeus

Nurse Jeus

Registered NurseBNSc RN

Jeus begun his nursing career in the Philippines where he completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Trinity University of Asia. In Manila, he gained experience in a hospital emergency room before moving to San Juan City...

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Nurse Sharlene

Nurse Sharlene

Registered NurseRN

Sharlene is an emergency nurse, a mother of four boys, and a professional trainer. While no two days are ever the same in Sharlene’s world, she is consistent in the high energy and care she brings to every patient and every job...

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Nurse Nicky

Nurse Nicky

Registered NurseRN

Nicky is an experienced Registered Nurse and Nurse Manager. She has 15 years’ Emergency Department experience including tenure as Acute Care Nurse Manager. Nicky’s formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Nursing and a Post-Graduate Diploma...

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Nurse Sarah

Nurse Sarah

Registered NurseRN

Sarah started her nursing career at Auckland’s busy Middlemore Hospital where she has worked across Older Persons & Rehabilitation (OPR), Orthopaedics, and the Emergency Department (ED). She also worked in London...

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Nurse Melissa

Nurse Melissa

Registered NurseRN

Melissa is a hard working nurse with a decade’s experience behind her. She has recently stepped into a Duty Nurse Manager role after previously working as an Associate Charge Nurse Manager in the emergency department.

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Nurse Debbie

Nurse Debbie

Registered NurseRN

Debbie has been a Registered Nurse for more than 20 years. She trained in Hamilton, then worked at the Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia for three years, before returning to New Zealand. Debbie has worked across various wards...

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Nurse Robby

Nurse Robby

Registered NurseRN

Robby graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1981 and has accumulated over 35 years of nursing experience across a broad range of settings. Early in her career she was Charge Nurse of a busy surgical ward. She has worked in international humanitarian roles...

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Nurse Angel (Angelina)

Nurse Angel (Angelina)

Registered NurseRN

Angel is originally from the Philippines and has been a nurse for over 15 years. In 2012, she relocated to New Zealand to become an NZRN. While Angel has previous experience working in aged care, her real passion lies in acute and emergency nursing.

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Nurse Elbert

Nurse Elbert

Registered NurseRN PGDipHSc

lbert is a critical care RN with over a decades experience within intensive care unit (ICU) and emergency department (ED) settings. He started his nursing career in the medical and surgical ward of a teaching hospital in the Philippines in 2008.

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Nurse Rachel

Nurse Rachel

Registered NurseRCpN PGDip

A capable and dedicated nursing professional, Rachel has over 30 years’ experience, including vast hospital, community and telehealth nursing experience.

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Nurse Hayley

Nurse Hayley

Registered NurseRN PgDipHSc

Hayley has extensive nursing experience and has spent much of her career in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In addition to her decade spent in specialty nursing (intensive care), she has also worked in telehealth...

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Nurse Kelly

Nurse Kelly

Registered NurseRN

Kelly has over 15 years nursing experience, including a number of years working within the Waikato Emergency Department (ED) as well as in EDs in Australia and the UK. In addition to her ED experience...

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Nurse Tanya

Nurse Tanya

Registered NurseRN BNurs

Tanya gained her Bachelor of Nursing here in Aotearoa before heading overseas to work in London and the outback of Australia. Once she returned to New Zealand, she worked in the Waikato...

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Nurse Claire

Nurse Claire

Registered NurseRN

Claire is an experienced nurse having worked in emergency department and urgent care environments as well as general practice. She completed her Bachelor of Nursing in Christchurch...

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Nurse Roxie

Nurse Roxie

Registered NurseBSc Nurs(Hons) PGDip AdvNurs

Roxie brings more than 17 years of nursing experience across adult and paediatric care, spanning hospice, community, and emergency settings. Her background includes senior nursing roles in the Emergency Department at...

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