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Dame Susan Bagshaw was born in Hong Kong and learnt to be at home where her suitcase was. Her suitcase has now been in Aotearoa since 1981 so she has been home for a while. She has a wonderful husband, 4 adult children and 7 mokopuna who are great fun. She works as a primary care doctor specialising in adolescent/youth health at a one stop shop community youth health centre for 10-25 year olds, which she helped to set up, under a trust called Korowai Youth Well-being Trust. She is working with others to set up a Youth Hub of services, creativity and transition housing. She is a senior lecturer in adolescent health in the department of Paediatrics at the Christchurch School of Medicine, and she is an educator with the Collaborative Trust: a research and training centre for youth health and development. 

In this episode, we discuss her colorful journey into youth health, her passion for developing this area of medicine, building the next one-stop shop, how she earned her Order of Merit, the concept of consent in medicine, and much more. 

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Dr. Curtis Walker was elected to Council in 2015. He was elected Chair in February 2019. Ko Whakatōhea rāua ko Ngāti Porou ngā iwi. Formerly a veterinarian, Dr Walker retrained in human medicine and qualified from Auckland in 2007. He started work as a House Officer at Waikato hospital and commenced internal medicine training there before moving to Palmerston North and Wellington to complete his Fellowship in nephrology (Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians) in 2015. 

 During his time as a resident doctor, he was President of the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) for 5 years, and currently serves on the board of the Māori Medical Practitioners Association (Te ORA). These roles reflect the strong commitment that Dr Walker has to improving health outcomes for Māori and to supporting doctors during the long and challenging years spent in specialist training.

 He commenced work as a renal and general physician in 2015 at MidCentral DHB and loves living in Palmerston North with his wife and two young children.

 In this episode, we discuss his journey from veterinary medicine, to human medicine, his presidency in the NZRDA, his Chairmanship in MCNZ and his work with Te ORA. We unpack his passion to serve Māori communities, cultural safety in the workplace, attrition rates of Māori doctors, and of course, his work as a renal and general physician. 

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Professor Harvey White is a Cardiologist and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Unit, Auckland City Hospital. He is an Honorary Professor of Medicine University of Auckland and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.  Harvey trained at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland and Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. He is the John Neutze Scholar. 

In recognition of his work on end-systolic volumes as the most important modifiable prognostic factor following myocardial infarction, he was awarded DSc by Otago University. He was awarded the Prince Mahidol Award by the King of Thailand for introducing fibrinolytic therapy in developing countries, including China. He is a Matai (La’uli) in Samoa for services to Samoa, and has a “pou” in the Te Awamutu Walk of Fame recognising his contribution to decreasing heart disease. 

He is Co-chairman of the Redefinition of Myocardial Infarction Consensus group and defined the 5 types of MIs. He is senior author on the Bleeding Academic Consortium (BARC) to define bleeding.  He has been a member of numerous guideline groups. He is a member of the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ (CTT) Collaboration and is on 16 editorial Boards. He has over 1000 publications and 77 editorials with an H Score 121.

He gave the most prestigious International Society and Federation of Cardiology lecture at the European Society of Cardiology in 1993, and Paul Dudley White lectures at the American Heart Association in 2004 and at American College of Cardiology in 2011. Harvey is recognised in the top 1% of scientists worldwide and No 5 for publication of RCT-related articles in all high-impact-factor medical journals over the past five decades. He was also awarded the highest collaboration index.  

He has been NZ Chairman and President of the combined Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. He was awarded the Inaugural Gold Medal at the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting 2019 for outstanding contribution to Cardiology.

He introduced the 10 year earlier screening for Mᾱori in the absolute risk assessment and has presented this to the Health Committee on doing that for colonic screening; published on  worse outcomes for Mᾱori  after bypass surgery; has a Pou in the Te Awamutu rose gardens; introduced the Mᾱori byline for the New Zealand Medical Association and as chairman of the New Zealand Medical Services Board is responsible for the New Zealand Medical Journal. 

 He has also had multiple visits to Samoa doing clinics, including a WHO report, attending the 50th annual meeting of the Samoan Medical association, and a matai title La'auli, the highest mountain,  for services to Samoa.

In this episode, we discuss his extensive and prolific journey in research, his work in Samoa and Māori health, and his love for cardiology. 

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Satualafa'alagilagi Dr. Leinani Aiono-Le Tagaloa was born and brought up in Samoa (previously Western Samoa).  She began surgical training then completed anaesthetic training.  Having a FANZCA she undertook an obstetric anaesthesia fellowship and assistant professorship in the United States.  Upon returning to New Zealand, Dr Tagaloa undertook a further fellowship in Pain Medicine and since obtaining her FFPMANZCA has split her work week between chronic pain at the Auckland Regional Pain Service and Anaesthesia at Auckland Hospital.  She serves our college on the New Zealand National Committee and as an examiner for the Faculty of Pain Medicine.  She is the founding president of the Pasifika Anaesthetists in Aoterearoa.

In this episode, we discuss the culture shock of moving from Samoa to Dunedin, her journey out of surgical specialties and into pain medicine, the trauma of racism (both external and internalised) in medicine, her growth in embracing her Samoan title and diversity, and her love for pain medicine. 

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Dr. Margy Pohl is an Orthopaedic surgeon in Northland and currently Clinical Director of their Orthopaedic Department. Margy manages to combine working in private and public capacities with raising her 2 home schooled teenage boys and maintaining some semblance of lifestyle balance and sanity. Margy is passionate about increasing the number of females in Orthopaedics and breaking down some of the perceived barriers. She is the founder and past Chair of LIONZ (Ladies in Orthopaedics New Zealand) and remains involved with the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association's Specialty Training Board and Diversity Committee.

In this episode, we discuss her journey into orthopaedics, navigating a divorce with an orthopaedic surgeon while trying to get into training, myth-busting common sexist pre-conceptions about orthopaedics, challenges to women in a white male dominated specialty, and her work with LIONZ. 

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Dr. Jin Russell is a Consultant Developmental Paediatrician at Starship Children's Health (@drjinrussell). Jin graduated from the University of Auckland medical programme in 2007 with distinctions in paediatrics, medicine, surgery, general practice, and psychiatry. Jin completed specialist training with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Community Child Health, with expertise in developmental-behavioural paediatrics and child population health. Jin's PhD research is with Growing Up in New Zealand in the field of life course epidemiology. Jin has won competitive research grants and clinical awards, including a New Zealand Health Research Council Clinical Training Fellowship, a 2020 Starship Foundation Fellowship, a Royal Australasian College of Physicians Trainee Research Excellence Award, the W W Phillips Prize in Medicine and the Senior Prize in Biology. Her research interests are in the developmental health of populations, with a focus on the early years, life course epidemiological methods and the social determinants of health. Her research skills include advanced epidemiology and biostatistics for quantitative analysis. She believes that inequities in early developmental health can unjustly impact how capabilities form within children, and that addressing these inequities is essential to creating flourishing societies. Her PhD supervisors are Professor Susan Morton and Professor Cameron Grant. Jin has held several medical leadership positions within The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, including as a previous member of the inaugural College Council, and previous Co-Chair of the NZ Trainees' Committee. She is a Board Member of The Parenting Place. 

In this episode, we discuss the training involved for community child health and paediatrics, her work in this space, taking time off to pursue her phD, how her Christian faith and medicine have intersected for her, COVID and her church community, and navigating the boundaries and principles of Twitter. 

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Dr. David Spriggs trained at St. Andrews and Manchester in the United Kingdom. He returned to his hometown of Newcastle for advanced training, and spent two years doing stroke research, of which one year was a fellowship in Sydney. On returning to the NHS, he realised his error and has since become an NHS refugee in Auckland, practicing as a general physician and geriatrician. His interests include post-graduate education, error in medicine, healthy ageing and Stroke. He describes himself as an optimistic sceptic and does not believe in the “Evidence Based” paradigm.  He loves his family, his dogs, his garden,  his fishing and a good, non-fiction, book. 

In this episode, we discuss his passion for medical education, the importance of good followership, the significance and prevalence of medical error and his own experiences of it, career sustainability and burnout, medical transitions from school to housemanship and residency to consultancy, and the fallacies of evidence-based paradigms. 

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Dr. Nadya York is a consultant surgeon in Auckland. She immigrated from Russia aged fifteen, and completed her medical school and surgical training in New Zealand. After a two year urology fellowship in Indiana, United States of America she returned to Auckland City Hospital as a consultant urologist in 2017. Her subspecialty interest is kidney stones and laser prostate surgery. She is a wife and a mother of three young children. In her spare time she runs after her kids and/or engages in various skirmishes with the patriarchy.

In this episode, we discuss her journey into urology, her love for kidney stones, her passion in breastfeeding advocacy, navigating a male-dominated field, sexism and sexual harassment, and fighting a good fight against the patriarchy. 

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Dr. Inia Raumati is an emergency medicine specialist at Auckland City Hospital. Inia also volunteered at Westpac Rescue as a Helicopter Emergency Medical Services doctor, about 4 shifts a month. He was also an Army Reservists Doctor for the NZDF, and took multiple years leave from ED to work full time for the army. Inia first graduated from Otago University with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 1997, he then worked for a couple of years and started Medical School in Auckland in 2000. He also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine. Since starting in medicine he has worked in Auckland, Whangarei, Taranaki, Sydney and Port Macquarie.

In this episode, we discuss his journey from physiotherapy to medicine, his medical whakapapa, moving from anaesthetics to ED, his extensive experience in ultramarathons, racism against Māori in medicine, and desert ultras, and his work in army medicine.

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Dr. Khairil Musa is a Senior Intensive Care Registrar from Royal North Shore Hospital and an ICU Field Doctor with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Khairil was deployed to Yemen and Iraq in 2020 as part of MSF’s COVID19 response and also worked in MSF’s Trauma Hospital in Aden. In his downtime Khairil is passionate about the performing arts and is a classically trained dancer and the Creative Lead for the SMACC/CODA Conference opening ceremonies.

In this episode, we discuss his journey into intensive care as a specialty, the application process and deployment for MSF, his work in Yemen and Iraq with MSF, the post-traumatic stress and burnout he suffered, his recovery, and his love for classical ballet. 

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