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Dr. Art Nahill is originally from the Boston area and attended Yale University and after three years as a high-school science teacher obtained his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Harvard-affiliated Mount Auburn Hospital and spent the next twelve years practicing and teaching in general medicine in the Boston area before moving to New Zealand with his Kiwi wife and two children in 2005.

Since changing hemispheres, Art is now working in the General Medicine Department of Middlemore Hospital, is a clinical educator, and writer with an opinion on most things, especially learning and teaching about how we think and all the ways we might innovate and improve our struggling health system. He is also a widely-published, award-winning poet. 
 
He is back for another episode to discuss his next endeavour with Dr. Nic Szecket and Dr. Anne O'Callaghan - Clinical Mentoring: a group providing support, advice and improvement strategies to medical students, trainee doctors and clinicians. Their work includes professional supervision, clinical coaching, peer review and workshops. 

In this episode, we discuss Clinical Mentoring, moral injury, clinical reasoning, professional supervision, and of course, the many frustrations with have with the health system. 

Clinical Mentoring can found here: https://clinicalmentoring.net/

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Dr Ari Chuang (he/him) is a non-training Orthopaedic registrar who recently started Pride in Health which is geared towards educating health professionals in all areas of LGBTQI health. He is passionate about initiating conversations, accelerating change and facilitating an inclusive healthcare model for disadvantaged groups like our LGBTQIA+ patients. He recently welcome a son with his wife and this journey has sparked an interest in them to work at ensuring an inclusive parental journey and work at changing the heteronormative language around childbirth.

He is also currently on a sabbatical from the world of medicine, taking the time out to rediscover other passions such as business, social enterprise, and how to continue creating and crafting sustainable influence and change in the world. 

In this episode, we discuss Ari's multiple enterprises - including opening physiotherapy clinics, bubble tea shops and founding a charity that led their to win the Commonwealth prize - his journey into medicine and orthopaedics, the racism and sexism he experienced both within medicine and the wider landscape of Aotearoa, and ultimately, his burnout and his journey of recovery now during his sabbatical. 

Pride in Health on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrideInHealth/ and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PrideinHealth1?s=20

NB: at the time of recording, Ari was non-binary with they/she pronouns but has now had gender affirming care as a trans-man doctor. We have changed the description post-publication in alignment with his development.

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Dr. Chris Jackson is a Medical Oncologist with special interest in gastrointestinal cancers, melanoma and urological cancers. Chris holds a national role in the research and management of colorectal cancer. Chris graduated from the University of Otago and trained in New Zealand before working at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London – the world’s first specialist cancer hospital. He is currently the clinical leader for oncology research at Dunedin Hospital, and in 2015, was appointed as Medical Director of the Cancer Society of New Zealand. 

In this episode, we discuss his passion for fighting injustices and patient advocacy, academia and research, vulnerability in the workplace, the power of story-telling, and how all of these aspects are weaved into his work in oncology. 

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Dr. Marissa Kelaher is a GP in Nelson who has a special interest in the role of nutrition and lifestyle in health, and in using this to change the way we practice medicine. She conducts lifestyle medicine clinics alongside her GP work, and also runs a social media account @thesimplicitydoctor, as well as writing lifestyle medicine articles for local magazines. She has two young boys, loves travel, outdoor adventures, music and yoga, and would love to see lifestyle medicine become an integral part of mainstream care.

In this episode, we discuss her transition from a classical musician to medicine, the perspective traveling gives, lifestyle medicine and her upcoming program next year.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesimplicitydoctor
Instagram @thesimplicitydoctor

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Dr. Hong Sheng Chiong is a senior ophthalmology registrar, who trained in Ireland and Penang (Malaysia). In 2014, he founded oDocs Eye Care and released the world's first open-source smartphone retinal imaging adapter. oDocs Eye Care is an award-winning social enterprise and independent eye care research lab based in New Zealand, with a mission to end preventable blindness by increasing access and affordability of eye care.

In this episode, we discuss his training in Ireland and Malaysia and the contrast with New Zealand, his journey into ophthalmology, and the award-running social enterprise oDocs and its future.

You can find more information about oDocs here: https://odocs-tech.com/

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Dr. Emma Lawrey trained at the University of Auckland having grown up the child of NZ ex-pats living in Canada. She is now an emergency physician at Auckland hospital but has had varying subspecialty interests and accumulated postgraduate qualifications along the way.  She was the first education fellow at Middlemore hospital, has done extended study in clinical toxicology and now works in disaster and humanitarian medicine. 

She is the Clinical Director of the NZ Government field hospital – the New Zealand Medical Assistance Team (NZMAT) - and is currently a disaster response specialist for RespondGlobal in Australia and is on the clinical advisory board for TEND. She has previously worked for the emergency medicine secretariat of WHO in Geneva and the Pacific Office in Fiji. 

Emma is a single parent, sharing care of three beautiful children and enjoys rock climbing and trail climbing. 

In this episode, we discuss her journey into medicine, her work in disaster relief and humanitarian aid, NZMAT and their need in recruitment, her experience in working for the World Health Organisation, gender disparity in medicine, and work-life balance in emergency medicine. 

NZMAT information can be found here: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/emergency-management/new-zealand-medical-assistance-team

If you would like to volunteer for NZMAT, please get in touch and I will put you in contact with Dr. Lawrey. 

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Dr. Bex Canner (they/them) is a queer non-binary transgender GP who works in a Youth One Stop Shop clinic in Whanganui-a-Tara.  Originally from the US, Bex went to medical school in Canada and completed residency training in Family Medicine with a rural focus in the US. After working for many years as a rural GP, they came to Aotearoa to work as a GP and teach medical students in rural South Otago. In 2016, when their 15-year marriage ended, Bex found that being middle-aged, queer, and single in a rural town was not a viable long-term plan and subsequently moved to Wellington to work at Evolve Youth service where they have a special interest in providing gender-affirming care to rangatahi under the age of 25.  Bex is also a founding member of the recently established Pride in Health trust, which seeks to improve access to education and resources to doctors providing care to patients in the Rainbow Community. 

In this episode, we discuss their journey from music into family medicine, navigating their sexuality and identity, gender affirmation surgery and testosterone, their mental health and their work at Evolve Youth supporting the Rainbow Community.

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Associate Professor Collin Tukuitonga is the inaugural Associate Dean (Pacific) and Associate Professor of Public Health at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences in the University of Auckland, and he is a public health medicine specialist. Currently, he is on the Ministry of Health’s Technical Advisory Group for COVID-19 and is assisting the Auckland Regional Public Health Service to manage the current outbreak. He is also the New Zealand Heart Foundation Chief Advisor Pacific, government appointee to the NZ Health Quality & Safety Commission board and President-Elect of the NZ College of Public Health Medicine Council. He has previously led the NZ Ministry of Pacific Affairs and worked with the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a Niuean New Zealander and strong advocate for improving health and wellbeing of Pacific people in the region.

In this episode, we discuss the role politics plays in health, Māori and Pacific health inequities, advising COVID-19 as a public health physician,  his work with the WHO and his many different roles in public health today.

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Dr. Hannah Noel is a general paediatrician at Waitematā DHB, mother to 7 year old Elise and a director and part-owner of Crave café in Morningside. She grew up in Dunedin, was trained at Otago University, and has been Auckland-based since 2007. In November 2008, her life took an unexpected turn when her husband Jared (also a doctor) was diagnosed with metastatic bowel cancer; he died in October 2014. Hannah’s experience with grief and loss has led to an interest the multitude of ways humans cope with the unexpected things in life, and how we support colleagues, trainees and students at these times. She is inspired by great poets, great pastry chefs and the self-assurance and resilience of her daughter.

In this episode, we discuss her journey into medicine, navigating the diagnosis of metastatic bowel cancer with her late husband Dr. Jared Noel, being under the spotlight, finding solace in colleagues, navigating grief and solo parenting, and of course, her journey into paediatrics.

You can find the Boredom Blog here: https://jarednoel.wordpress.com/
Their GiveaLittle legacy can be found here: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/jarednoel
Dr. Jared Noel's book 'Message to my Girl' can be purchased from Allen and Unwins page and Book Depository

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Dr. Clare Mallinson is a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in scoliosis correction surgery. She is also Director of Medical Education and deputy medical director at Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust in London - an organisation with over 100 junior doctors in all specialities which creates a rich learning environment. She has been chair of the National Association of Clinical Tutors and now on the Royal College of Anaesthetists Council.

In this episode, we discuss her journey into medicine and anaesthetics, her method and advice for picking a specialty, the evolution of the job of anaesthetics during COVID surges in NHS hospitals, the recovery process post-COVID, how systems can prevent burnout during the pandemic and how London is experiencing normality in this new post-COVID era. 

A word of warning, the audio for this is a little scratchy - I have tried my hardest to edit this out but alas could not get it to the quality of other recordings.

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