International Speakers
Associate Professor David anderson
David is the Executive Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria, an intensivist at The Alfred Hospital, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University. He worked as a paramedic in Auckland before qualifying as a doctor and undertaking postgraduate training in anaesthesia, intensive care medicine, palliative medicine and prehospital and retrieval medicine in Auckland, Sydney and Toronto before qualifying in intensive care medicine and settling in Melbourne. His clinical interests are prehospital and retrieval medicine, trauma critical care, ECMO, palliative care and bioethics.
LocaL sPEAKERS
Dr Rinki Murphy
Endocrinologist, Counties Manukau
Dr Murphy is an Endocrinologist at Counties Manukau, specialising in diabetes and obesity. She has established a research programme in understanding the pathophysiology and impacts of diabetes and obesity with the overall aim of identifying precision medicine that spans genetics, broader risk biomarkers and novel treatment strategies.
She is a member of several international research networks and established the NZ monogenic diabetes national genetic testing guidelines and clinical database.Dr Fiona Stewart
Cardiologist, Auckland City Hospital
Fiona Stewart trained in Cardiology at Green Lane Hospital and Obstetric Medicine at National Women’s Hospital before working as a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. Fiona is a general cardiologist with particular interests in maternal heart disease in pregnancy, heart disease in women, preoperative risk assessment for noncardiac surgery, atrial fibrillation, heart failure and the management of hypertension and dysautonomia.