Ruth Large
Clinical Director Information Services and Virtual Healthcare
Waikato DHB

Ruth is an Emergency Physician and Rural Hospitalist working for the largest rural District Health Board in New Zealand. Working as Clinical Director of Thames Hospital since 2012 Ruth finds addressing the inequities of rural practice challenging. She has had a keen interest in Telehealth since her outback days and has been the Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Telehealth Forum since 2013. She was appointed to the new position of Clinical Director of Virtual Healthcare for the Waikato DHB in 2015 and both roles allow her a glimpse into the future where patients have better access to the care that they deserve. 
Ruth lives on a lifestyle block in the North Waikato with her farmer husband and three children, proving that you can have your cake and eat it too. 

Lisa Livingstone
Registered Nurse
Nelson Marlborough DHB

Lisa Livingstone, RN currently Clinical Lead IT Projects at NMH a role I have been in for the past 2 ½ years.  I have previously held a number of nursing management roles in New Zealand and Australia during my 17 year nursing career.  I have been the project manager for the implementation of Patientrack, Smartpage and Telehealth within NMH.  I see my role as a translator between technical and clinical and my aim in this role is to give back time to clinicians and create an integrated and data driven informatics system.

Samantha Murton
President
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners

Dr Sam Murton is president of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. She’s a working Wellington GP and Senior Lecturer and Trainee Intern Convenor at University of Otago, Wellington. She was the College’s first medical director and is passionate about supporting general practice. One of Sam’s goals is to advocate for the profession at a national level, and she does this while maintaining practical experience that keeps her advice relevant and realistic. Her vision for general practice is best reflected in her 2020 work (with collaborators) A manifesto for general practice: an equitable, accessible health-positive model, which can be read on the College’s website.

Meg McKeown
Medical Director
Moreton Group Medical Services

Became a veterinary surgeon 1997 and worked as a small animal vet in Western Sydney
Went back to university 2006 and graduated from Medicine 2009 
Trained as a rural generalist with the Australian Antarctic Division Polar Medicine Unit in Tasmania (Fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine) 
Summer 2013/2014 at Casey Station Expedition Medical Officer 
Winter 2014/2015 Macquarie Island Expedition Medical Officer 
Worked for Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a diplomatic doctor in 2017/2018 in Myanmar 
Winter Davis Station 2018/2019 Expedition Medical Officer 
Head Office Medical Officer at Polar Medicine Unit  
Medical Director of Moreton group Medical Services providing care to homeless in Tasmania 
Rural Doctor at the Midlands Multi Purpose Health Centre, Tasmania 
Ambulance Tasmania Telehealth support for secondary triage and Extended Care Paramedic Support 
AMA Rural Doctor Rep for Tasmania 
Rural Doctors Association Tasmania Vice President 
Rural Generalist Coordinating Council of Tasmania FACRRM representative 
ACRRM intake assessor

Jacqueline Canessa
Senior Clinical Medical Lead
St Vincent's Correctional Health

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Rebecca McBeth
HiNZ News Editor

Rebecca McBeth joined the HiNZ team as editor of eHealthNews.nz in January 2018. Rebecca was previously news editor at Digital Health Intelligence in London and prior to that, was the senior health reporter at The Christchurch Press, where she won a NZ Canon Media Award and a NZ Reporting Diversity award. Based in Auckland, she is committed to communicating news, experience and knowledge throughout New Zealand’s data and digital health sector.