meet our speakers

Katie Quinney is a healthcare leader, coach and mentor. With an extensive and varied career from the UK to New Zealand, excelling at developing people and teams, and creating positive change in whatever role she has been in. Her ‘I am no Jedi’ weekly email in production since 2016 has a worldwide audience, and shares inspiration, ideas and resources With a learner mindset, she is always exploring and considering new ways in which we can all work together to change the way it feels to work in healthcare.

Presentation: That Magical Mix of Support and Spark 
Presentation: Workshop - The Guideposts of Your Leadership - Uncovering Your Personal Values

Emma Griffiths is a clinical pharmacist with a passion for palliative care and education.  She contributes to quality and medication safety initiatives within Tāmaki Makarau and wider Aotearoa and has spent the last 14 years building a clinical pharmacist service at Mercy Hospice.  Emma is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland where she enjoys facilitating health professionals’ understanding and confidence in dealing with palliative care medications.

Presentation: Workshop - Palliative Care - Demystifying Syringe Drivers

India Logan-Riley (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Ngāti Hawea, Rongomaiwahine, Rangitāne) is the climate justice advisor at ActionStation. They bring a background in heritage and lived experience of climate injustice, and draw on a broad range of experiences from UN climate negotiations to harakeke roots work on #landback kaupapa with rangatahi Māori and Pasifika. India dreams of resilient communities where everyone is safe and joyful.

Presentation: Why climate change is a health equity issue

Summer Wright (Ngāti Maniapoto) is a co-convenor of OraTaiao: NZ Climate and Health Council, and is trained as a dietitian. She has an interest in healthy and sustainable food systems and how they intersect with goals for human, ecosystem, and animal wellbeing. 

Presentation: Why climate change is a health equity issue

Phillippa Lamont is a Clinical Pharmacist with a background in community and clinical pharmacy in New-Zealand and the UK.   She has recently established a clinical pharmacist role within the Community Health Service at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau and is passionate about integrated healthcare and improving patients health journeys and outcomes.

Presentation: Clinical pharmacist role within the community health services team at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau

Jenny Cho is a clinical pharmacist at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau. She has a background in both community and hospital pharmacy. Currently Jenny works as a locality pharmacist in the community services team and as an honorary clinical tutor at the University of Auckland. She is passionate about the role of clinical pharmacists in the primary care setting and the growing role of pharmacists in the integrated healthcare system.

Presentation: Clinical pharmacist role within the community health services team at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau

Ariel Hubbert has enjoyed a diverse pharmacy career working in hospital environments across Aotearoa and the UK. Highlights have included serving as the NZHPA president 2018-2020 and getting a certain consultant to ask for her advice after 3 years of being blanked.In 2007 she specialised clinically in Mental Health, then decided March 2020 would be a good time to start leading a pharmacy service, at what is now Te Whatu Ora Waitematā. Ariel survived Auckland lockdowns by learning crochet and hoarding houseplants. After 20+ years in pharmacy she is still figuring things out.

Presentation: Antidotes to Chaos - using "VUCA" to keep your balance