Speakers
Thursday 14th October
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0910 Hon Tariana Turia
0930 Dr Elizabeth Spellacy
1100 Colin Gladstone
1130 Hannah Samuel
Sector Initiatives
1330 Rob Gill
1430 Rachelle Martin & Philippa Heinz
Professional & Skill Development
1330 Shirley Easton, Renee Miller & Candida Monkley
1430 Dr Carol McDonald
1500 Nicky Nelson & Kerryn Waugh
Aging & Transition
1330 Katie Holloway
1430 Ainslie Gee - No Presentation available
1500 Josephine Cullen
1600 Dr Maurice Curtis - No Presentation available
Friday 15th October
0830 Hannah Samuel
0915 Panel Discussion
Sector Initiatives
1030 Greg Sayer
1100 Lorelei Hickey - No Presentation available
1130 Roger Jolley
Professional & Skill Development
1030 Jill Bolte Taylor - Web link to the video presentation
1100 Clare Shepherd
1130 Karen Mora
Aging & Transition
1030 Tricia Vickers
1100 Karen Lilly
1130 Jen Lockwood
1300 Professor Peggy Koopman-Boyden
1400 Ruth Mackie
1530 Graeme Sinclair - No Presentation available
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Hon. Tariana Turia
Hon. Tariana Turia is co-leader of the Maori Party. She is a Minister outside Cabinet in the National-led Government. Hon. Tariana Turia is Minister for Disability Issues and Associate Minister for Health. Hon Tariana Turia will open the conference.
Hannah Samuel
As a sector, organisational and individual level, your reputation opens doors or slams them shut. In today’s fast-paced, digital world, ‘word of mouth’ has become ‘word of mouse’ and news travels very far, very fast. Is what people are saying about you working for you or against you?
Hannah’s insights into reputation, trust and integrity are based on more than 20 years experience working in business development in the UK and New Zealand.
Hannah focuses on projects and people that generate positive energy and add genuine value. Honesty and integrity (delivering on promises to herself and others) are important to her and she applauds smart thinking, innovation and originality. She is a long-standing mentor for the Auckland YWCA Future Leaders programme and was a co-founding Trustee of national charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People New Zealand. Her latest book “Reputation Branding” – How to grow your business without spending a cent, was published in 2007.
Graeme Sinclair
In 1997 Graeme was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Because of his passion for life in the face of an illness that would put most people out of action, Graeme’s story is one of inspiration and motivation. In his own way Graeme covers material on living every day as though it was your last. He talks about being a healthy successful TV personality one day and being confined to a wheelchair the next day.
He has very strong views on life with disability and the role of Government and your audience will be inspired by his personal philosophy.
In addition to living his passion, Graeme is also a very successful author with his book “Gone Fishin' – The Book” and his video has received enthusiastic feedback from here and overseas.
Dr Maurice Anthony Curtis
Stem cells are the most important cells in the body because without them humans could never reproduce. However recently they have come under the greatest of scrutiny with both positive and negative outcomes. On the one hand they have great potential in our fight against certain diseases and on the other hand the ethical issues associated with them have raised significant controversy. In this lecture I propose to discuss what stem cells are, where they come from and how they are being used in the fight against human brain diseases.
Dr Maurice Anthony Curtis studied for a Masters of Science degree at the University of Auckland focussing on foetal stem cell transplantation for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington’s disease. In addition to receiving the ‘University of Auckland’s Best Thesis Award’ Maurice was also awarded a Wrightson post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand to work on stem cells in the brain at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden with Prof. Peter Eriksson.
Professor Peggy Koopman-Boyden
Professor Peggy Koopman-Boyden CNZM has undertaken research on ageing and older people for most of her long academic life. She is a Professor of Social Gerontology in the Population Studies Centre at the University of Waikato. Her most recent research on Enhancing Wellbeing in an Ageing Society investigated the lifestyle of 1,680 New Zealanders aged 65-84 years in 2007. Prof Koopman-Boyden is currently the Chair of AgeWise, a strategic advisory committee to the Waikato District Health Board, is President of the New Zealand Association of Gerontology (Waikato Branch), and is a Life Member of Age Concern (Canterbury). Her CNZM was awarded for "services to elderly people."
Professor Koopman-Boyden will consider what we might call a
"transition", and how as we age, what transitions most people
experience. She will then detail from recent New Zealand research,
transitions and changes in relationships concerning status (being
retired), affect (losing a spouse) and utility (having less income).
Some of the ways of dealing with these transitions will also be
explored.
Dr Elizabeth Spellacy
After starting her career in General Medicine and Metabolism, Dr Spellacy later developed a major committment to services for older people. Her background includes biochemical research, functional assessment, rehabilitation, and long-term disorders such as stroke and osteoporosis. She has also been involved in a variety of service planning and development areas.
Through clinical and advisory work covering wide-ranging health and community interests, she has developed a special focus on the interaction between the older individual and their environment. This is a major influence on the spectrum of personal health and function experienced in the community and influences the health sector changes needed for population ageing.