guest speakers
Prof. Pascal Boileau
Orthopaedic Surgeon
(France)
Pascal Boileau is an Orthopaedic Surgeon in Nice, France. For the last 2 decades he has been at the forefront of all aspects of shoulder surgery. He has brought the fine legacy of French shoulder surgery to the rest of the world and continued to innovate, these game changing techniques, including Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty and Latarjet Shoulder stabilisation surgery.
Pascal has authored many publications, mentored and taught many fellows and educated internationally to the highest level. The Nice Shoulder Course, which he convenes, is one of the finest educational meetings in the world of orthopaedic surgery His teaching has included live surgery and his clinical work includes voluntary work in Africa.
Pascal was one of the first overseas faculty at the New Zealand Shoulder and Elbow Society meetings and was influential in the evolution of the NZSES. He continues to be at the forefront of the globalisation of orthopaedic education.
Prof.Jegan
Krishnan
Orthopaedic Surgeon
(Australia)
Professor Jegan Krishnan (MBBS, FRACS (Orth), Ph.D.) is an Orthopaedic Surgeon based in Adelaide, South Australia who currently consults and operates at various locations across the state.
Jegan is committed to helping not only patients locally but also offering his services to the less fortunate. He has spent stints in Zimbabwe, Fiji, Rwanda and various parts of India and China focussed on teaching local practitioners how to improve their craft. Jegan is also involved in providing healthcare in the Third World and establishing a program linked to the University of Malawi for medical education and training.
Silken Laumann
Olympian, Speaker
(Canada)
Silken Laumann captivates audiences with tales of courage, adversity, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. Drawing from her Olympic rowing journey, personal battles and successes, Silken paints vivid narratives about the power of storytelling and overcoming life's challenges. Read more about Silken on her website HERE
Nick Petrie,
Keynote Speaker & Author (NZ)
Nick Petrie is a researcher and speaker on leadership, resilience and burnout prevention. Nick helps organizations prepare for the future by creating solutions that help leaders be more: adaptable, resilient and strategic. His clients include: Google, Salesforce, Walmart, Home Depot, NASA, Wells Fargo, Kellogg's, and Comcast. He has worked globally across industries including; engineering, tech, banking, pharmaceuticals, energy, law, retail and television.
He holds a Master degree from Harvard University and is the co-author of the book Work Without Stress: Building resilience for long term success.
Dr Denis Atkinson
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Denis has special interest in arthritic surgery for the knee and hip joint, and particular interests in sports injuries and general surgery of the knee joint.
He did his under graduate studies at Otago University with post graduate training in Wellington, London and Leeds.
He is a past president of the New Zealand Knee Society and past president of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association.
He is a current member of ACC’s Clinical Advisor Panel (CAP) and has provided independent expert advice to the HDC.
Dr Rachelle Love
Chair, Medical Council New Zealand
Dr Love was appointed to the Medical Council of New Zealand in August 2020, she is Deputy Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and was elected Chair of the Council in February 2024.
Dr Love is a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Māori Health Advisory Group, an elected member of the National Board of RACS, the executive of the NZ branch of the Australasian Sleep Association, the Urutā National Māori Pandemic Group, and is a Trustee of the Hearing Research Foundation.
She practices as an ENT surgeon with an interest in in Māori health, particularly cultural competency and cultural safety in surgical education, sleep surgery, and is a cultural advisor to the ORL Training Board.
I have asked her for more info on her MCNZ role.
Morag McDowell
Health and Disability Commissioner
Morag is the main role of the Health and Disability Commissioner is to ensure that rights of consumers are upheld. This includes making sure that complaints about health or disability service providers are taken care of fairly and efficiently. Morag McDowell, Health and Disability Commissioner, began her term in September 2020.
Morag took up the role after serving nearly 13 years as a Coroner based in Auckland. She was formerly a Crown Prosecutor, Director of Proceedings for the Health and Disability Commissioner’s Office, and a Senior Legal Adviser at Crown Law. Since completing her Master of Laws degree, her legal practice has had a strong focus on healthcare law, and she has appeared in different courts and tribunals on a variety of health-related litigation. She has also lectured and published on a range of medico-legal issues.
Morag is committed to promoting and protecting the rights of health and disability services consumers where the Code sets the benchmark for good practice, and opportunities for learning and quality improvement are embraced. She strongly values the importance of fair, timely, transparent, and culturally appropriate processes where people are engaged, and given the opportunity to be heard.
Jonathan Coates
Medico - Legal Consultant
Jonathan is one of New Zealand’s leading health sector lawyers. He has extensive experience in all areas of health law and in the legal issues facing the health sector.Following an early career in criminal law and civil litigation, Jonathan has specialised in health law since the late 1990s. After practising and studying health law in the UK, he returned to New Zealand to build a health sector practice. In the early 2000s, Jonathan undertook and completed a PhD in health law.Between 2005 and 2012, Jonathan was a litigation partner at Buddle Findlay, where he headed up that firm’s specialist health sector team and practised almost exclusively in the health sector. He spent four years as a member of the firm’s Board. Jonathan left Buddle Findlay in 2012 to set up Claro. In April 2024 Jonathan was part of the Claro team that joined Dentons.
Jonathan’s litigation and advisory practice covers the provision, regulation, funding and management of health services. He works closely with Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand (previously District Health Boards), private providers, insurance companies and professional indemnifiers, statutory regulators (such as the registration authorities operating under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act), aged care providers, primary care providers, NGOs, professional colleges and associations, government departments, and many other health sector organisations. Public health law is an area of particular interest – from both a policy and legal perspective. Jonathan regularly appears in the courts and before specialist tribunals.
His advisory practice is typically at Board and senior management level.Jonathan is frequently engaged to undertake independent investigations, reviews and inquiries – including leading investigations raising complaints about behavioural, safety and competence issues, and disclosures made under the Protected Disclosures Act. He speaks and writes widely on health law and legal issues affecting the health sector and is a member of the New Zealand Law Society’s specialist Health Law Committee.