Rachelle Bernacki MD, MS

Co-presenting with Dr Jo Paladino MD & Dr Josh Lakin
Leaning in to lessen fear: How structure can free clinicians, patients, and their whānau in exploring what matters most

Dr Bernacki is the director of quality initiatives in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. She served as the of the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs, which has developed a standardised approach for ensuring clinicians conduct discussions about end-of-life values and goals with seriously ill patients and their families. Dr Bernacki is also the founder of the Ariadne Labs Serious Illness Community of Practice, which nationally scales communication, implementation and training efforts to strengthen health systems with innovative and sustainable solutions in serious illness care. She directed the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute randomised controlled trial testing the Serious Illness Care Program, and implemented and adapted the programme for high-risk primary care patients.

Recently, Dr Bernacki and Dr Zara Cooper, a trauma surgeon, began the Center for Geriatric Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Through this clinical and research centre, vulnerable surgical patients are identified via preoperative frailty screening and symptom assessment; the team has created clinical pathways tailored to meet each patient’s individual needs.

Dr Bernacki is board certified in palliative medicine, geriatrics and internal medicine. She is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the American Geriatrics Society and currently serves on the Board of Directors of AAHPM. She is the recipient of two Geriatric Academic Career Awards from the Health Resources and Services Administration and is a 2015 Cambia Sojourns Leadership Scholar.

Dr Bernacki received her BS from Cornell University, her MS from the University of Chicago, where she completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and her MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Cari Borenko

Pulling the pieces of the advance care planning puzzle together: From the Pan-Canadian framework to a local schema

Co-presenting with Nicole Wikjord & Nav Prihar - poster presentation
Empowering the diversity of British Columbia's First Nations and Punjabi communities through ACP partnerships

Since 2006, Cari has been the regional lead of the advance care planning (ACP) program at Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia. In this role, she has championed the development, implementation, delivery and evaluation of ACP policies, systemic processes, educational resources and promotional materials. Cari's unwavering vision has provided the opportunity to support and influence the implementation of other ACP programmes.

Cari has had the privilege to contribute to the ACP movements in New Zealand, Singapore and Japan. As a recognised leader, she was seconded as the provincial clinical lead for ACP to support the development of provincial ACP resources for clinicians, patients and their families.

Her appointment at UBC Department of Medicine as a clinical instructor illustrates her exemplary teaching skills. Through the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA), Cari is proud to be the founder and chair of the Canadian National ACP Community of Practice of Educators and an appointed member of the National ACP Task Group.

Cari has presented at several international and national conferences including ones sponsored by the International Society of ACP and End of Life and the CHPCA. She is the author of a chapter entitled Passion, Persistence and Pennies and co-author of another chapter about Canadian ACP.

Joshua Lakin MD

Co-presenting with Dr Jo Paladino MD & Dr Rachelle Bernacki MD
Leaning in to lessen fear: How structure can free clinicians, patients, and their whānau in exploring what matters most

Senior Physician, Division of Adult Palliative Care, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Palliative Care Consultant, Population Health Management, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Medical Director, KidneyPal Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr Lakin works as an attending physician at the inpatient palliative care consult service and intensive palliative care unit at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and serves as the medical director of the KidneyPal palliative care service dedicated to patients with advanced kidney disease.

In these clinical roles, he works as part of an inter-professional team providing palliative care to hospitalised patients. The palliative care team is frequently staffed with fellows, residents and students from a variety of schools and professions, and Dr Lakin serves as a clinical educator for this group of energised learners. In addition to his clinical teaching activities, he currently teaches at the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care.

In terms of research, Dr Lakin is interested in working to build scaleable and measurable models for delivering palliative care, especially high-quality serious illness communication, outside of traditional hospital-based palliative care services. He spends his time primarily at the intersection of clinical palliative care and health care systems work aiming to improve the experiences of clinicians, patients and their families as they wrestle with serious illnesses.

Kathryn Mannix FRCP (London)

Restoring the forgotten wisdom: How can we reclaim ordinary dying?

Dr Mannix qualified from Newcastle Medical School in the UK in 1982 and trained in medicine, oncology, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and palliative medicine in the north of England. She was a founder member of the Association for Palliative Medicine.

Her clinical and research interests were in palliation of nausea and vomiting, and application of CBT in a palliative care setting. She was made a Fellow of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies in recognition of her contribution in developing CBT therapy and staff training in palliative care.

After working in palliative care for 30 years in hospitals, community teams and hospitals, Dr Mannix took early retirement to work for better public understanding of dying. She writes, lectures and broadcasts widely in the UK and beyond, and her first book, With the End in Mind, was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.

Carla Arkless

Co-presenting with Dr Elizabeth Wood
Nelson Marlborough Health ‘SWOOP’ team – a multidisciplinary team offering shared decision-making during COVID-19

Carla has been working as a palliative care Nurse Practitioner for 10 years. She is currently working for Nelson Marlborough DHB in the ambulatory care service, previously at Nelson Tasman Hospice. She is also the ACP Facilitator for Nelson Tasman and has been a national trainer for the Advance Care Planning (ACP) Training Programme since its inception in 2012.

Judy Bucasan

Co-presenting with Susan Fryer & Cath Noventa
Benefits of initiating palliative conversations in aged residential care facilities – resident and whānau perspective

Judy works as a nurse at Meltifecare Highlands Park Retirement Home in East Auckland. She became a Poi Link Nurse in May 2020.

Amber Davies

Recognising uncertainty and the AMBER care bundle

Amber is a senior nurse at Middlemore Hospital. She has a background in critical care, chronic disease, and palliative care, having worked in New Zealand and internationally. Amber returned to Counties Manukau Health in December after working at Totara Hospice with the palliative outcomes initiative team. Passionate about supporting a person-centred approach in health, Amber welcomes the opportunity to link in with Commission initiatives that support shared decision making and promote consumers as equal partners in planning and developing care that meets their needs. She is particularly interested in the recognition of deteriorating health, promoting engagement for early identification and management of palliative symptoms that improve quality of life.

Richard Egan

Advance care planning: A unique opportunity to ask about what matters most (spirituality in its broadest sense)

Richard is a director of the Cancer Society Research Collaboration and co-director of the Social and Behavioural Research Unit at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He has a background as both a secondary school teacher and as a health promoter.

Richard’s master’s thesis examined spirituality in New Zealand state schools, his PhD thesis explored spirituality in end-of-life care. Richard has qualifications in theology, English literature, religious studies, and public health. Richard is an honorary research consultant for Meaningful Aging Australia, a Global Network for Spirituality & Health member, an associate of the Selwyn Institute for Aging and Spirituality and works with Hospice NZ on spirituality matters.

Vanessa Eldridge

Co-presenting with Clare O’Leary
Whenua ki te whenua – a Māori-created advance care planning guide for whānau

Vanessa (Rongomaiwahine and Ngāti Kahungunu) has developed several innovative educational programmes in conjunction with Māori health providers around understanding cancer and support, caring for whānau at home and loss and grief. Vanessa has contributed to national research, publications and professional development material. She wrote the content for the ACP guide for whānau, Whenua ki te whenua. Vanessa is a member of the ACP steering group and is also a Rongoā practitioner.

Fraser Health Authority

Putting it into practice: Applying the Pan-Canadian ACP framework to regional and local initiatives

Laura Gaspard completed her Master’s in social work focusing on indigenous wellness in health care and using advance care planning to support quality of life for individuals. She has worked in a variety of long-term care homes, rehabilitation/convalescent care, acute care and community care.

Randy Goossen has more than twenty years’ experience in social work. Randy is committed to educating the public and health care providers to ensure individuals receive care that is consistent with their wishes, values and goals.

Kelly Johnson is currently enrolled in a Master’s degree programme for leadership in health care at Royal Roads University. She has worked at Vancouver Coastal and Fraser Health in surgical, hospice and palliative care settings.

Nav Prihar began her career as a frontline nurse in general surgery at Surrey Memorial Hospital. She has experience working in hospital, community and primary care settings.

Andrew Saunderson has worked in both acute care and community settings in the areas of oncology, cardiology, HIV/AIDS and addictions. He finds joy in both learning and teaching. Andrew has attended and facilitated various advance care planning and Serious Illness Conversation educational events.

Lauren Thomas began her nursing career in general surgery and high acuity care. She built an innovative programme for complex chronic illness management (heart failure) in 2011. As the nurse clinician for the Fraser South Advance Care Planning team, she emphasises a more upstream focus on planning before a health crisis to both health care providers and the public,

Susan Fryer

Co-presenting with Cath Noventa & Judy Bucasan
Benefits of initiating palliative conversations in aged residential care facilities – resident and whānau perspective

Susan has worked in palliative care for 25 years; her previous roles have included education and managing teams in community hospice and inpatient unit.

Jane Goodwin

The integration and implementation of ACP across health settings: the Canterbury story

Jane is a registered nurse who has been in the role of ACP facilitator in Waitaha/Canterbury since 2013. She has a strong involvement with ACP nationally; chairing the national ACP steering group; working as a lead trainer for with the national ACP programme; and is employed by the Health Quality & Safety Commission as the national ACP implementation consultant. More recently she has been working with the Commission to introduce the Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Aotearoa.

Patricia Gosper

Selling something that is free yet priceless

Patricia received her Bachelor of Social Work from Massey University in 1980. In 2013 she completed a postgraduate diploma in health science, specialising in palliative care and professional supervision. Initially, Patricia worked in primary health care, before spending 20 years working in the community and as a drug and alcohol counsellor for the Salvation Army.

Patricia works as a specialist palliative care social worker with Hospice West Auckland. She maintains a keen interest in the work of the ACP Cooperative and passionately shares the philosophy of ACP with families engaged with hospice and the West Auckland community.

Maarie Hutana

Te Tiriti partnership for advance care planning – the formation of a Māori expert advisory group

Co-presenting with Hayley McManus
Kaupapa hapori - engaging Māori and rural whānau in promoting and supporting members of their communities with ACP

In July 2020, Maarie Hutana joined the national advance care planning team. Her role is to assist and facilitate equity focused initiatives across the program in support of Māori health gains.

Her background is in cancer nursing where she has been instrumental in the development of a specialist nursing role based on tikanga and mātauranga Māori.

Maarie dedicates her professional career to championing equity as an integral component of quality health care. She has initiated and led equity driven service audits and improvements to promote a culturally safe healthcare environment for Māori and achieve health equity.

Maarie is a member of Te Waipounamu Māori Leadership Group for Cancer, a former member of the Cancer Nurse College executive committee and is on the governance committee for the funding of quality initiatives and research for the Canterbury regional cancer and haematology service. She also teaches a paper for the Bachelor of Nursing program, at the Ara Institute of Canterbury on the clinical application of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and cultural safety.

Jane Large

Closed loop ACPlanning system across the South Island

Jane is a highly experienced registered nurse who specialises in health planning and older people’s health. For the past seven years Jane has provided regional support with the ACPlanning system – tackling regional projects which benefit five district health boards. Jane is a member of the Health Quality & Safety Commission advance care planning steering group.

Jessie Lenagh-Glue

Co-presenting with Dr Anthony O'Brien & Johnnie Potiki
A MAP for mental health: giving consumers a voice in their care planning

Jessie has a BA in psychology, an MA in international affairs and an LLB(Hons). She works in academic law, specialising in issues around capacity and informed consent. She has published several papers on advance directives in mental health, the second-opinion process in compulsory treatment, and legal and ethical implications of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing; and has collaborated on a review of the PPPR Act in NZ and a guide for the assessment of mental capacity in New Zealand. Jessie is working with a multi-disciplinary team to develop and implement an advance preferences instrument for consumers of mental health services in the Southern DHB.

Nic Mckenzie

‘Why don't we get to do this?’ Advance care planning and people with learning disabilities

Nic is a disability sector contractor, and PhD student at the University of Otago. She has previously worked as a speech-language therapist, disability sector educator, clinical leader, and project manager. Nic is interested in participatory research that has meaningful benefit to people with learning disabilities.

Hayley McManus

Co-presenting with Maarie Hutana
Kaupapa hapori - engaging Māori and rural whānau in promoting and supporting members of their communities with ACP

Hayley has a clinical background as a midwife and a Master’s in Health Sciences. She has worked in the health sector for over 15 years in project management roles, with 7 years in clinical positions.

More recently Hayley was involved in the facilitation of clinical engagement and system performance programmes at the Cancer Institute, NSW Health. She enjoys working with stakeholders within the health and community sectors and various clinical advisory groups and public stakeholder engagements for a number of health areas, including; the South Island District Health Board Alliance Programme office as a project manager developing and improving health services including long term conditions, maternity services and child and youth health services. She has had a passion for advocating for individuals and their whanau within the health sector and has had roles on national executive boards including Fertility New Zealand and have supported the Gynaecological Cancer Research and Clinical Innovation (GRACI) foundation in terms of raising awareness and associated research opportunities for gynaecological cancers in Zealand.

Tess Moeke-Maxwell

A bubble full of aroha: An ethnographic reflection of my mokopuna’s death during COVID-19

Tess Huia Moeke-Maxwell (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Makaurau & Ngāti Porou) completed her post-doctoral investigation in 2012 on Māori end of life experiences. She is a research fellow working in the School of Nursing at the University of Auckland and is a founding member of the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group.

In 2017 Tess was awarded a project grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand to lead the Pae Herenga, an investigation into the traditional end-of-life care customs and protocols employed by Māori whānau (families, including extended family) in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The methodological lens Tess brings to her work is kaupapa Māori and Māori-centred, highlighting the indigenous was of knowing and carrying out end-of-life care.

Rebecca Muir

Capturing key medical information to protect vulnerable people during lockdown

Rebecca Muir is a senior project facilitator for the Canterbury Clinical Network. Her role involves the development, refinement and roll out of shared care plans across the Canterbury health system. Rebecca has helped introduce the shared care planning concept across many services which has seen an increase in integrated care for patients in Canterbury.

Cath Noventa

Co-presenting with Judy Bucasan & Susan Fryer
Benefits of initiating palliative conversations in aged residential care facilities – resident and whānau perspective

Cath has been a physiotherapist for 28 years. She currently works as part of the Poi multidisciplinary team and part of the Totara Hospice community physiotherapy team.

Dr Anthony O'Brien

Co-presenting with Jessie Lenagh-Glue & Johnnie Potiki A MAP for mental health: giving consumers a voice in their care planning

Poster Presentation on - Supported decision-making and advance directives in the context of New Zealand’s mental health legislation

Associate Professor Tony O'Brien is a mental health nurse who is part of a team of service users, clinicians, service managers and academics who have been working since 2015 on a project involving advance directives in Southern DHB. Tony has experience as a clinician, teacher and researcher in mental health and in 2020 was appointed ONZM for services to mental health nursing.

Clare O’Leary

Co-presenting with Vanessa Eldridge
Whenua ki te whenua – a Māori-created advance care planning guide for whānau

Co-presenting with Eirenei Vailaau-Ah Kuoi
Supporting advance care planning in the Samoan community in Porirua

Clare joined the Commission in 2018 with the national ACP team. Clare’s focus is to drive a national campaign on advance care planning, and to review and create new ACP resources for diverse communities of interest. Her role involves building relationships with stakeholders across government agencies, non-government organisations and flaxroots communities. Clare has a background in nursing, health education and media and spent eight years with Mary Potter Hospice as the palliative care educator. She is also a documentary filmmaker and has made films about artists, writers and social issues. Clare has a Masters in Communications from Victoria University of Wellington. www.myacp.org.nz

Johnnie Potiki

Co-presenting with Jessie Lenagh-Glue & Dr Anthony O'Brien
A MAP for mental health: giving consumers a voice in their care planning

Johnnie Potiki is the Consumer Advisor for Southern DHB in Otago, previous Māori co-chair of National Association of Mental Health Consumer Advisors and is presently on the HQSC Māori advisory group. Johnnie has a wife Jackie and son Jacob and belongs to the the Otakou runaka.

Bridget Ryan

The use of an innovative communication tool to guide difficult palliative care conversations in aged residential care

Bridget works in specialist palliative care in the hospice inpatient unit, community teams and in the palliative aged residential care team. She is passionate about supporting ARC staff to care for residents needing palliative care. Bridget is particularly interested in cultural competency and safety.

Lyneta Russell

Putting people with dementia at the heart of everything we do

Lyneta spent the first 20 years of her nursing career in the acute care sector, holding clinical, advisory roles, and management positions and the next 20 years in residential care as chief executive for a residential care facility. This position sparked her interest and involvement in the care of people with dementia. Since 2019, in her role as advisor for services and standards with Alzheimers New Zealand, she has worked with Alzheimers organisations across New Zealand to support evidence based practice and continuous quality improvement. Lyneta believes as providers of care we can do more to ensure the voices of people with dementia are heard and respected.

Eirenei Vailaau-Ah Kuoi

Co-presenting with Clare O’Leary
Supporting advance care planning in the Samoan community in Porirua

Eirenei moved from Samoa as a 15-year-old when her parents were called to lead the Samoan church ministry at the Congregational Christian Church in Samoa / Ekalesia Faapotopotoga Kerisiano i Samoa (EFKS) Porirua church in 1997.

She graduated with an LLB from the University of Otago, and an MBA (specialising in Entrepreneurial Management) from the Australian Institute of Business. She served her community as a Staff solicitor at the Porirua Kapiti Community Law Centre before taking time out to start her family. She has four children and also runs a stone restoration business with her husband Fred.

Eirenei serves on the Board of the Porirua Kapiti Community Law Centre and is actively involved in the Pacific community as the Chief Executive Officer for Atamu EFKS Porirua Incorporated ('Atamu'), a faith-based organisation that offers a range of services for the Pacific community. Atamu recently delivered ACP community workshops in the Samoan Language, and look forward to offering more in 2021.

Celeita Williams

Paramedic student engagement in palliative care: How did we reframe their fear to privilege?

Celeita is an intensive care paramedic and lecturer at AUT in New Zealand. She joined AUT after 10 years working as a paramedic. Celeita completed her Master of Health Science in Aeromedicine at the University of Otago in New Zealand and is currently completing her doctorate, conducting a study investigating the impact of urinary incontinence on falls, as seen by ambulance clinicians in the community.

Dr Rachel Wiseman

COVID as a catalyst. How the pandemic helped us implement shared goals of care

Rachel currently holds a joint position in both respiratory and palliative medicine in Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand.

Having trained in the United Kingdom, Rachel fell in love with New Zealand when she (and her now husband) arrived in 2004. Despite only intending to visit for six months, she stayed and completed her training.

Rachel’s current interests are advanced COPD, dyspnoea, oxygen therapy and advance care planning. She participates in the motor neuron disease service for Canterbury and West Coast district health boards. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her two young children, mountain biking, tramping and skiing.

Elizabeth Wood

Co-presenting with Carla Arkless
Nelson Marlborough Health ‘SWOOP’ team – a multidisciplinary team offering shared decision-making during COVID-19

Elizabeth is a general practitioner in Mapua near Nelson, think summer holidays and a famous campground nearby – clothing optional. She also works as a clinical director for Nelson Marlborough District Health Board (DHB) and is chair of the DHB clinical governance committee.

A graduate of the Health Quality & Safety Commission sponsored improvement advisor programme, Elizabeth says this training helped her to understand how to achieve lasting change within a complex system. Elizabeth is passionate about working to ensure her community has access to high-quality health care, delivered with care and respect.

Cheryl Calvert

Co-presenting with Elizabeth Milner
Let the conversation begin - supporting clients and clinicians in their care

Cheryl Calvert NZRNComp - Auckland DHB ACP Lead Facilitator since April 2019, Cheryl has been engaged with ACP since 2011 initially completing the L2 training workshop and later as a L3 ACP facilitator. For the last 11yrs she has worked with the ADHB NASC and Community Long Term Conditions Gerontology Nurse Specialist services. Developing engagement between the HQSC, Auckland DHB and community clinicians, our community and whānau to enable appropriate equitable care is her passion.

Sherryl Larsen

ACP: Precious words

Sherryl returned home to Hastings from Australia five years ago, and works as a clinical nurse specialist at Cranford Hospice. This organisation provides the best possible palliative care, education, support and advice to the people of Hawke's Bay.

Conversations with family/whānau have always formed the backbone of holistic practice. Sherryl has worked with the multidisciplinary ACP project to ensure the hopes, wishes and goals of patients/whānau are captured so they can be translated into practice.

Helen Mclauchlan, ACP facilitator

ACP matters in the top of the south

Helen is the ACP facilitator for Marlborough, working alongside her Nelson colleague Carla, to promote and support ACP conversations across the region. She is based at Marlborough Primary Health. She is an experienced speech language therapist who has worked for many years within the New Zealand health system supporting adults with communication and swallowing disorders.

Elizabeth Milner

Co-presenting with Cheryl Calvert
Let the conversation begin - supporting clients and clinicians in their care

Liz Milner - NZRON, BHS/nsg, Post Dip Adv nursing, Post Cert Ed.Liz is a Charge Nurse in a community setting, previously practicing as Wound Care Nurse Specialist in the acute, sub-acute and community sectors at CMDHB. She encourages excellence in wound care management, is well-respected for applying evidence-based and holistic care recognising individual patient needs. As an active member of the NZ Wound Care Society, Liz provides support and education locally and annually in Tonga.

Faith Ng Thiam Gek

Facilitating advanced care planning in local community: A first-hand experience

Ms Ng has been practicing as a Registered Nurse for the past 25 years. She has worked in various disciplines during her nursing career. She was involved in care-coordination when she was a Patient Navigator in her organization, and her role as an Advocator for Advance Care Planning (ACP) started from there. Currently she is working as a Community Nursing of Singapore General Hospital and is an ACP Trainer. She, liked many of her nursing colleagues, is actively involved in engaging the local community dwelling older adults in conversations involving their end of life care.

Ma Christine Rose Orbase

Waitemata District Health Board, NSH, Auckland, New Zealand
I-CARE process: An approach towards quality care of COVID-19 pandemic patients and their whānau

Ma Christine Rose T. Orbase, is a graduate of Concordia College, Manila, Philippines for her BS Nursing year 2007 and conferred her Master's of Science in Nursing, in the same educational institution year 2013. At present she is taking up her Doctorate at St. Paul University, Philippines. She worked at the Philippine Heart Center of Asia as a Cardiac Nurse. Aside from the hospital experience she had been a Nursing Professor in the Post Graduate Studies of Concordia College and had been a Research Adviser and a Research Consultant. In addition, She was also a Research Competitor in the Philippines and She held a position as a Nursing Director in one of the private hospital in the Philippines.

At present, She is with Waitemata District Health Board, Northshore Hospital as an ICU/HDU and Medical Resource Registered Nurse.

Katerina Tesarova

Are ACP conversations recorded in the hospice population and whom are they led by?

Katerina is originally from the Czech Republic. She has a Master's Degree in Education. She joined Mary Potter Hospice team in 2013 as a health care assistant, and since early 2019 has been working there as a quality administrator. She is engaged in audit, policy and standards processes.

Mr Sean Thompson

General practitioners' perspectives of advance directives to help guide resuscitation decisions by paramedics

Sean Thompson is the Advance Care Planning Facilitator and Systems Manager for Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa DHBs. He is an Intensive Care Paramedic with Wellington Free Ambulance, former BHSc Paramedic degree lecturer at Whitireia Polytechnic, and appointed member of the Paramedic Council of New Zealand.

Cassie Scaife

Advance care planning in an aged residential care facility from a registered nurse perspective

Cassie is a registered nurse, who has always been interested in palliative care. She has worked in oncology, and also worked in hospital unit aged residential care for nine years – her absolute passion. She recently received the Ryman Nurse of the Year Award, for New Zealand and Australia.

Lee Walters

Futureproofing Level 1a ACP

The Bay of Plenty ACP 'Train the Trainers' are passionate ACP advocates, who hold key positions as health professionals across the DHB. Every author has a minimum of a Masters Level of Education equivalent across different disciplines including Nursing, Executive Business Administration & Nursing Practitioner. Collectively we share over 50 years of diverse clinical experience from around the globe including cardiac, renal, older person, mental health, quality & patient safety, respiratory, community health and long term conditions. With a wide scope of health intelligence ACP is very much at the center of what we do, improving population health.

Nicole Wikjord, Registered nurse

Co-presenting with Cari Borenko & Nav Prihar
Empowering the diversity of British Columbia's First Nations and Punjabi communities through ACP partnerships

Nicole is a registered nurse, with a Master’s of Science in Nursing degree. She is also certified from the Canadian Nurses Association, as having specialty practice in hospice- palliative care. Nav has a Master’s in Nursing. She has experience working in hospital, community and primary care settings.

Ms Hazel Wong

ACP goes upstream! Increasing general ACP and outpatient ACP uptake

Hazel is an executive who supports the operations and administration of the advance care planning office in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.

Mr Colin Woodhouse

Should non-religious spiritual support be available to consumers?

I am a registered nurse with 20 years experience. I trained in the UK and moved to New Zealand in 2007. The majority of my nursing experience has been in Neurosciences with some time in Oncology. Over time I have developed a particular interest in palliative care. I regard looking after the terminally ill and actively dying as a privilege.

I am working towards a Master's degree in Health Sciences through the University of Canterbury.

I recognise that spiritual support is a fundamental part of holistic care. I have never been religious and would like to see non-religious spiritual care become available across the country.

My wife, son and I gained our New Zealand citizenship in 2012 and we are happy and proud to be part of this wonderful part of the world