Dr Lisa Whitehead
BSc(Hons)(Lond) FCNA(NZ) MA(Liverpool) PhD (Liverpool) RN
Fellow of the College of Nurses Aotearoa
Tel +64 3 364 3858
Email lisa.whitehead@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests
Lisa’s research interests include the assessment and management of fatigue in primary care, self-management of long term conditions, and the role of the family in managing chronic illness.

Lisa is also deputy director of the Strategy To Advance Research (STAR) in nursing and allied health, a national TEC funded initative to develop research capability.

Current Teaching Responsibilities
Convenor for the Postgraduate Certificate in long-term condition management
Paper Convenor Nursing Research Methods
Post-Graduate Research Supervision

Beverley Burrell
BA(Otago) Dip T.Tchg MA(Hons)(Massey) PhD Cand.(Otago) RN
Tel +64 3 364 3860
Email beverley.burrell@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests
Beverley's research interests include women's health (contraception, menopause and wellness) with an emphasis on discourses of sexed bodies and body politics. She utilises postmodern and poststructural methodologies, particularly Foucauldian geneological method. Beverley has lectured in nursing undergraduate teaching for 15 years and postgraduate programmes in recent years.

Current Teaching Responsibilities
Curriculum development
Course Convenor Postgraduate Diploma Health Sciences (Nursing - Primary Health Care)
Supervision of theses, dissertations and special topic papers

Current Research
PhD Candidate research topic titled 'Intervention and (Re)Invention': Exogenous Female Sex Hormones and Female Subjectivity.

Beverley's masters research project utilised qualitative interviewing of women participants on their experiences of being mixed-sex roomed in hospitals. A feminist framework and Foucauldian approach were utilised in analysing power, ethics, gender dynamics and governance in hospitals.

Associate Professor Marie Crowe
BA(Cant) MNurs(Deakin) PhD(Griff) RPN
Tel +64 3 364 3858
Email marie.crowe@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests
Marie’s research interests include mental health nursing practice, psychotherapy, adolescent mental health and mood disorders. Her expertise is in qualitative research methodologies and has a particular interest in discourse analysis. Marie also works in the Dept of Psychological Medicine and as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Youth Specialty Services (Canterbury District Health Board). She is currently an investigator on two Health Research Council grants – one is a randomised controlled trial of psychotherapies for young people with bipolar disorder and the other is a qualitative and quantitative analysis of two psychotherapies for depression. Marie has worked in the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences for 10 years and previously worked at Griffith University in Brisbane.

Current Teaching Responsibilities
Marie convenes the Advanced Mental Health Nursing Programme (NURX 403 and NURX 404) and the Specialty Entry to Mental Health Nursing Programme (NURX 403 and NURX 409). She also convenes the Long-term Management of Mental Disorders paper offered through the Dept of Psychological Medicine and teaches in the Diploma in Interpersonal Psychotherapy.

Current Thesis Supervision
Marie is currently supervising 4 PhD theses and 6 Masters theses. She has supervised 23 theses over the past seven years. Her supervision expertise lies in qualitative methodologies and has supervised a number of mixed method theses.

Jenny Conder
MHealSc(Otago) PGCertTertT(Otago) RN
Email jenny.conder@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests
Jenny works as a researcher for the Donald Beasley Institute in Dunedin. Her research interests include primary health and mental health care for people with an intellectual disability. Family issues, including parents with an intellectual disability and parenting children with an intellectual or learning disability are also of interest.
Jenny is most familiar with qualitative approaches, a broad inductive approach having been used in most recent studies with which she has been involved, while grounded theory informed her exploration of moral decision-making with nurses working with children in her Masters thesis.

For her PhD she will be using van Manen’s thematic approach to explore and understand the perception of women with an intellectual disability of their body image.

Current Teaching Responsibilities
Course convenor NURX413 Primary Health Care Nursing Rural/Urban
Supervision of Dissertation students
Local contact for students living in Otago for course advice

Dr Mary Jo Gagan
BSN(Wis) MSN(Mich) PhD(Iowa) FAANP PHCPN(NZ) MSO(Mich) RN
Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Tel +64 3 364 3868
Email maryjo.gagan@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests
Mary Jo’s research interests include family health issues; especially intimate partner violence, and Nurse Practitioner (NP) performance and outcomes along with evaluation of NP programs for performance and outcomes. Dr Gagan is a quantitative researcher with several publications in the USA and Canadian journals. Mary Jo served as faculty for 6 years at the University Of Arizona’s College of Nursing and was the head of the NP program for 2 years. Most recently Mary Jo participated in a large geriatric practice (10 MDs, 17 NPs) in Tucson Arizona, where she had a panel of over 100 elderly to whom she provide primary healthcare within their home or other residential setting.

Current Teaching Responsibilities
Mary Jo Coordinates NURX405 Health Assessment and Advanced Nursing practice, the current NURX420 Special Topics and NURX421 Special Topics. She will also be responsible for the review and updating of NURX420 and NURX421. Mary Jo will also have a role in ongoing NP curriculum development.
Currently Mary Jo is supervising 1 Master’s thesis and 2 Master's dissertations.

Research Activities
Mary Jo is in the early stages of descriptive work addressing current NP roles and practice outcomes in NZ. The basis of future performance studies of both the NP programs and NP's in practice in New Zealand.

Gill Halksworth-Smith
BA(Hons)(Sheff) MN(Wales) MSc(Glam) PGCE(Dist)(Wales) RN RM
Tel +64 3 364 3865
Email gill.smith@otago.ac.nz

Gill is a part-time senior lecturer with the Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies, spending the remainder of her time in clinical practice. Gill has a broad clinical background including ED, surgical nursing, women’s health and midwifery.

Gill's research interests have included models of care; social deprivation and pregnancy outcome; recently involved in two Australasia studies one focused on gestational diabetes and a second study on morbidity following postpartum haemorrhage.

Dr Patricia Maybee
ADN(Ohio) BSN(Ohio) FAANP MSN(Ohio State) EdD(Georgia) PMC(S Carolina) FNP FAANP
Tel +64 3 364 3864
E-mail patricia.maybee@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests:
Patricia’s research interests include family health care, Nurse Practitioner (NP) policy and barriers to practice, and NP performance and outcomes. Her Family Nurse Practitioner expertise was developed over 15 years of experience in a busy Primary Care Practice as well as teaching Advanced Pharmacology and Adult Health in Clemson Universities Nurse Practitioner program.

Current Teaching Responsibilities
Patricia co-ordinates NURX416 Applied Pharmacology and NURX429 Advanced Therapeutics. She is active in advanced practice nursing and distance education curriculum development. Patricia is currently supervising 1 Master’s thesis and 5 Master’s dissertations.

Research Activities
Patricia is actively involved in the analysis of families living effectively with chronic heart failure utilizing the ABCX Model of Family Stress and Adaptation.

Lisa McKay
BN(Christchurch Poly) MA(Mental Health)(APU) PGCMHE(Cambridge) PGDipHSc (Advanced Mental Health)(Otago) RCpN RMN

Email lisa.mckay@otago.ac.nz

Sandra Richardson
BA(Canterbury) PGDipHealSc(Nursing)(Otago) PGDipSocSc(Massey) PhD Cand.(Otago) RN
Tel +64 3 364 3850
Email sandra.richardson@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests
Sandra's research interests include emergency medicine and nursing practice with an emphasis on identification, management and responses to Emergency Department overcrowding. Other areas of research she has been involved with include cultural safety, advanced nursing practice, hospital – community interface and investigations into the effects of benzopiperazine (BZP), or ‘party pills’. Sandra has lectured in nursing undergraduate teaching programmes for 10 years, with a focus on nursing research, cultural safety and socio-political aspects of nursing. More recently she has taught postgraduate curriculum, with a focus on High Acuity nursing. She is currently also employed in the Emergency Department of Christchurch Hospital, CDHB, as New Zealand’s only Emergency Nurse Researcher.

Current Teaching Responsibilities
Sandra is course co-ordinator for the NURX411 High Acuity Nursing and is involved in postgraduate research supervision.

Current Research
PhD Candidate, research topic: exploring the concept of ‘inappropriateness’ in relation to Emergency Department overcrowding in New Zealand

Alison Stewart
BSc(City) MSc(Brist) PhD(Well) RGON

Lorraine Ritchie
BA(Vic) MHealSc(Dist)(Otago) PhD Cand.(Otago) RN
Tel +64 3 364 3866
Email lorraine.ritchie@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests
Lorraine's primary area of interest is in the care and research of older people in both community and residential settings. In particular she is interested in the meaning of old age and ageing in society, and care from the older person's and a policy perspective. Lorraine's PhD will look at older people’s assessment narratives and beliefs in medication using discourse analysis methodology. She also spent several years teaching in undergraduate nursing and 5 years in nursing management. Another area of interest is in the arts/literature and health/nursing interface.

Henrietta Trip
BN (Massey) Cert. Adult Teaching(Christchurch Poly) Dip. Nursing Studies (Christchurch Poly) MHealSc(Nursing)(Otago)RN
Tel 64 3 364 3857
Email henrietta.trip@otago.ac.nz

Dr Heather Byrne
B Ed(UNE Australia) Dip Teach(UNE Australia) M Ed(UNE Australia) MHlthSci(SCU Australia) PhD(USQ Australia) PGCertCard(National Heart Hospital London) RGON(NZ) RN RNM

Email heather.byrne@otago.ac.nz

Dr Jacqueline Flynn
BA Applied Science(RMIT) FRCNA MMsci(University of QLD) PhD(Southern Cross) RN RM
Email jacky.flynn@otago.ac.nz

My RN training was at the Launceston General Hospital, Tasmania and my midwifery at Lyall McEwen Hospital Adelaide. My other qualifications include PhD from Southern Cross University, NSW; Masters of Medical Science, University of Qld; Bachelor of Applied Science Nursing Administration and Bachelor of Applied Science Nursing Education from Phillip Institute Melbourne; Neonatal Certificate from Monash; ICU certificate from The Alfred Hospital and a certificate in Quality Management from QUT Brisbane.

Over the past two decades, I have held Director of Nursing positions in a number of tertiary health care organisations including Townsville General Hospital, Women's Health Services at the Mater Mothers Hospital and the Mater Children's Hospital. In 2001, I accepted the position of Senior Nurse Manager, Nursing Services, and Care Centre Manager for Critical and Surgical Services at the Coffs Harbour Health Campus and remained there until the end of 2004. Following this I spent some time as DON for a Community Health Service and was then bitten by the travel bug and went to Bangladesh for 6 months as DON for Apollo Hospital. This was a 640 privately funded hospital situated in Dhaka. On return from the Dhaka experience, I took up a position of Divisional Manager for Women’s, Children’s and Family Health Services at Royal North Shore and Ryde Hospitals, Sydney.

I am a co-ordinator and surveyor with ACHS and have also undertaken a number of accreditation audits and surveys with Quality Health New Zealand (now TELARC)
I have a strong commitment to developing quality as well as developing nursing research and evidenced based practice across our organisation.

Kathy Peri
MHSc(Otago) PhD Cand.(Otago) RN RNOG
Email kathryn.peri@otago.ac.nz

Glynis Dodson
BN(Massey) MN(Otago Poly) RN

PG Dip Rehab
PG Dip Professional Nursing Practice

Email glynis.dodson@otago.ac.nz

Glynis is a Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Older Persons Health Specialist Services (OPHSS) at The Princess Margaret Hospital in Christchurch and also a Clinical Lecturer having involvement in the Health Assessment and Advanced Nursing practice (NURX 405) and Gerontology (NURX 426) papers for the PG Cert Gerontology. She has more than 10 years experience through having held a variety of nursing, academic and leadership roles in this field. Research undertaken for her MN was “The experience of smoking for people 65 years and over, who also have severe and persistent mental illness” as she wanted to understand the experience of smoking for the older adult and how they perceived this. A particular area of interest is walking alongside nurses undertaking postgraduate study – this has meant being available as a mentor/supervisor for the last three years. Nursing in the area of gerontology requires significant knowledge, skill and passion and will be an area of significant growth over the coming years.

Deborah Gillon
BA(Canterbury) MHealSc(Distn)(Otago) RN

Deb works as a part time clinical lecturer for the Centre for Post graduate Nursing Studies. She has a clinical role with Nurse Maude as an aged care nurse practitioner intern in community nursing. Deb's research interests are in older person's health and advanced nursing practice. Deb has lectured in undergraduate, graduate and in postgraduate nursing programmes. Her recent teaching interests include health assessment of adults, health assessment and advanced nursing practice, pharmacology, and assessment of older adults.

Heather Gray
ADN(Christchurch Poly) BA(Canterbury) MHealSc(Otago) RN
Email heather.gray@otago.ac.nz

Heather is currently employed as Director of Nursing & Clinical Services for the Ashburton & Rural division of the CDHB and hold a short-term honorary appointment with the University of Otago:Christchurch

Research interests
While not currently active in research Heather's masters thesis was based in after-hours hospital management. Her research interests include: adaptation to chronic illness, self-management of chronic illness and the patient experience of home recovery after short stay hospital admission.

Current Teaching Responsibilities
Guest lecturer in the PG Certificate in Leadership and Management.

Anna Higgins
MN(Otago Poly) PGHealSc(Otago) PGDip(Nsg)(Otago Poly) RN

Anna is a Nurse Practitioner with prescribing authority working in rural and urban Primary Healthcare. She is presently employed at the Oxford Community Health Centre in Oxford, North Canterbury and The 24 Hour Surgery in central Christchurch.

Patricia Holbrook
MN(Otago Poly) PGDip Speciality Nursing Practice(Otago Poly) RN
E-mail patricia.holbrook@otago.ac.nz

Roxanne McKerras
Dip HSM(Royal College of Nursing, London) MA(Victoria University) RGON

Dr Jane Nugent
BSc(Pharmacology)(Otago) MB ChB(Otago) PGDipSci(Dist)(Pharmacology)(Otago) RN

Dr Lauretta Muir
BSoc Sci(Massey) MPP(Victoria) PhD(Otago) RCompN(Nelson Poly)

Post Grad Cert Cardiac Care
Post Grad Cert Intensive Care
Tel +64 3 364 3857
Email lauretta.muir@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests
Lauretta’s research interests include public policy and how it affects clinical practice. Her particular focus is in understanding the relationship between the way our health sector is organised and the ability of clinicians to provide care that meets best practice guidelines.
Lauretta has worked in senior policy and management roles in the public and private health sector. She has developed contracts, coordinated qualitative research and implemented marketing strategies for many health sector organisations.

Research Activities
Lauretta is currently researching Familial Hypercholesterolaemia, one of the causes of coronary vascular heart disease, and the effectiveness of the heath sector in both diagnosing and treating people affected by this condition and cascade screening family members.

Current Teaching Responsibilities
Lauretta is currently teaching in the Leadership and Management programme and mentoring PhD students in the Department.

Virginia Maskill
BN(Nelson Poly) Cert. Adult Teaching(Nelson Poly) PG DipHealSc Addictions and Co-existing Disorders)(Dist)(Otago) PG DipHealSc(Interpersonal Psychotherapy)(Dist)(Otago)
RN
Tel 64 3 364 3861
Email virginia.maskill@otago.ac.nz

Lynere Wilson
BA(Hons)(Reading) Clinical Teaching Cert. (Christchurch College of Education) MHealSc(Mental Health)(Otago) PGDipHScOtago) PGDip Psychodynamic Counselling (Reading) RN
Tel 64 3 364 3854
Emaillynere.wilson@otago.ac.nz

Dinah Mountier
BA(Hons)(Canterbury) MA(Canterbury)
Email dinah.mountier@otago.ac.nz

Vivienne Valledor
BA Psychology(Philippines) MA Family Studies(Michigan State) PhD Cand. Family Studies(Syracuse)
Tel 64 3 364 3869
Email vivienne.valledor@otago.ac.nz

Research Interests
As research assistant, Vivienne's current research studies focus on menopause and HRT, chronic low back pain and depression and technology in the nursing classroom.

Vivienne is also currently working on her PhD in Family Studies, and her personal research lies in gender issues in the home, specifically in the division of household labour among Asian families.

Amanda Clifford
Teaching Administrator
Tel 64 3 364 3852
Fax 64 3 364 3855
Emailamanda.clifford@otago.ac.nz

Amanda is responsible for the administration of all postgraduate teaching programmes, student admissions and enrolments. She also provides administrative support to the Centre's academic staff.

Heather Reilly
Centre Administrator
Tel 64 3 364 3853
Email heather.reilly@otago.ac.nz

Heather is responsible for the financial administration of the Centre. She also provides reception services and administrative support to the Centre's academic and research staff.

Avin Panckhusrt (on maternity leave until May 2010)
Masters in Biomedicine (Sweden)
Research Administrator, PA to the Director, Research Assistant
Tel 64 3 364 3851