SPEAKERS
Lucy Hone
Author, Christchurch
Dr Lucy Hone is a world leading authority on resilience, a bestselling author, and a respected voice on how humans cope with loss, change, and uncertainty. Trained at the University of Pennsylvania and holding a PhD in wellbeing science, she is an Adjunct Fellow at the Universities of Canterbury and Pittsburgh. Her TED talk has more than 9 million views and is translated into 23 languages. Lucy’s latest book, How Will I Ever Get Through This?, reached #1 on the NZ International Non Fiction list and became a bestseller in Australia, offering clear, research informed guidance for navigating life’s hardest moments.
Vicki Anderson
Murdoch
Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne
Professor Anderson is Director, Clinical Sciences Research, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Science, University of Melbourne, and a Director of the Board of the Concussion in Sport group, a founding board member of the International Paediatric Brain Injury Society, a board member of the International Brain Injury Association, past president of the International Neuropsychological Society. Her research and clinical interests are in disorders of childhood that impact on the brain, including both developmental and acquired disorders, particularly traumatic brain injury and concussion. She has published over 600 peer reviewed papers, and 6 books.
Christine Beasley
NZ Health, Waitaha Canterbury
Manawa Simulation Centre
Christine Beasley is currently the CDHB Clinical Nurse Manager of the Manawa Simulation Centre, Christchurch, and Canterbury DHB simulation lead/Regional Wellbeing Lead Te Wai Pounamu. Chris is a graduate of the Centre for Medical Simulation, Boston, USA. Comprehensive Simulation Instructor Course and Advanced Simulation Instructor Course.
Chris’s interests are in advanced simulation debrief, Human Factors, train the trainer and supporting in-situ simulation. She sits on the National Simulation Steering Group, representing Waitaha Canterbury.
Meredith Borland
Perth Children's Hospital, Perth
Professor Borland is a paediatric emergency physician and Director of Research at Perth Children’s Hospital, Emergency Department in WA. She was a founding member of the PREDICT network. In 2022 she was awarded the Member of Order of Australia for her community and professional engagement, particularly in emergency medicine, paediatrics and research. Her research portfolio includes sepsis recognition, interventions for bronchiolitis, acute respiratory infections, severe behavioural disturbances, development of clinical decision rules for head and neck injuries and appendicitis recognition.
Sarah Buller
Auckland City Hospital, Auckland
Sarah Buller is an Emergency Medicine Specialist working at Te Toka Tumai Auckland Adult Emergency Department (AED). She is the clinical lead for toxicology and consults occasionally for the New Zealand National Poison Centre. Sarah has completed a masters of medical toxicology and is a member of Toxicology and Poisons Network Australasia (TAPNA). Although employed in AED she consults on cases within Starship Children's Emergency Department.
Simon Craig
Monash University, Melbourne
Simon Craig is an Paediatric Emergency Physician working at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne and an Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Monash University. He has been chair of the PREDICT research network since 2022, and past chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine ED Epidemiology Network. He is easily distracted and always willing to take on "just one more" project.
Laura Joyce
University of Otago, Christchurch
Dr. Laura Joyce is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and Deputy Dean at the University of Otago, Christchurch. She is passionate about ensuring that we retain our humanity despite the demanding, high-pressure realities of modern healthcare, recognising the very real risks of ’second victim syndrome’ and self-protective detachment. Laura draws on a powerful dual perspective: the clinical insight of a frontline specialist, grounded by her ongoing, personal journey navigating the paediatric health system as the mother of a child with special needs.
Rosie Lane
The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
Rosie is a senior paediatric surgical trainee currently based at RCH in Melbourne. Originally from Ōhope, she has spent the majority of her working life in Ōtautahi and will be returning there as a consultant after completing training. In her spare time, Rosie is generally found outside skiing, mountain biking, tramping and mountaineering.
Joanna Lawrence
Victorian Virtual Emergency Department, Australia
A/Prof Joanna Lawrence is a paediatrician and the Paediatric Director of Virtual Health for Northern Health’s statewide virtual services. She works clinically across the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department and the Royal Children’s Hospital Hospital-in-the-Home program. She is passionate about providing proactive and responsive care to children to optimise health in the community and decrease reliance on in-hospital care. Her doctorate focused on hospital sustainability focusing on both innovative care models and reducing low value care.
Elliot Long
The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
Elliot Long works at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne as a paediatric emergency physician. He is the Sepsis Research team leader at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne Department of Critical Care, and an executive member of the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) network. He leads the Paediatric Adaptive Sepsis Platform Trial (PASSPORT). He has been an APLS instructor for 15 years. He is really excited to catch up with friends and colleagues in Christchurch!
Maggie Meeks
Whāngai Aroha Hillmorton Hospital, Christchurch
Maggie Meeks is a Paediatrician and Counsellor. She began her Paediatric Career in the UK in the Royal Air Force (RAF) before specialising in Neonatal Paediatrics. She moved to New Zealand in 2008 and worked initially as a Neonatal Consultant Paediatrician for Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) and a Clinical Education Advisor for the University of Otago. She now works clinically on Whāngai Aroha (Mothers and Babies) Hillmorton Hospital for Health New Zealand Waitaha. Maggie recently completed a Masters in Counselling and has a role with the Cancer Society and she continues to work in the areas of collaborative education and educational coaching and supervision.
Jane Millar
Christchurch Hospital and University of Otago, Christchurch
Jane is a paediatric infectious disease trainee and
Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago Paediatric department currently
working in Christchurch. She has an interest in perinatal infections and
completed her PhD on infant HIV in South Africa. She is kept busy by her three
young children.
Gabrielle Nuthall
Starship Child Health, Auckland
Gabrielle Nuthall is a Paediatric Intensivist in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland, since 2022. Gabrielle’s areas of interest are resuscitation with good neurological outcomes, PICU outreach, medical mediation, and medical force well-being. She is a member of the New Zealand Resuscitation Council, and of the Paediatric Task Force Committee of ILCOR.
Ben van der Griend
Anaesthetist, Christchurch
Ben van der Griend is an Ōtautahi / Christchurch–based anaesthetist with a paediatric interest. He is a University of Queensland graduate and has worked in various centres in Australia and the United Kingdom before settling in Christchurch. He sits on the clinical governance committee of Southern Cross Hospital and is the chair of Anaesthesia Associates, a large private practice group in Christchurch. Outside of work, Ben is a terrible golfer but hopefully a better husband and father.