We are delighted to confirm the two New Zealand based keynote speakers who will be at the conference this November.
Mason Durie is a member of the Rangitane and Ngati Kauwhata tribes in New Zealand. He obtained a medical degree from the University of Otago in 1963 and completed postgraduate training in psychiatry at McGill University in 1970.
After working as a clinical psychiatrist and Director of Psychiatry in Palmerston North, he became a full-time academic at Massey University where he established a Maori health research centre in 1993.
Apart from research into health outcomes and practice methodologies he has been closely involved with the ongoing development of health policy in New Zealand and has worked extensively with Maori community health providers.
Professor Durie has a special interest in indigenous health and Maori health workforce development, and has authored a number of books about Maori social, economic and cultural development.
Dr Gray is a General Practitioner at Newtown Union Health Service and Senior Lecturer in Primary Health Care and General Practice at Otago University Wellington. He is responsible for convening the "Professional Skills Attitudes and Ethics" course for Wellington medical students.
His first practice was in Waitara where he had a large Maori population and was significantly involved in the local Marae. For the last 17 years he has worked at Newtown Union Health Service which provides care for a very diverse population. About ¼ of the practice come from refugee backgrounds and NUHS cares for people from more than 20 ethnic groups.
Dr Gray has written and presented widely on issues relating to Cross Cultural Care and use of interpreters. He has a particular interest in interprofessional learning and long term condition management.
As a GP he has managed terminal care patients all of his career. Newtown Union Health Service is a stone's throw from Mary Potter Hospice and they work collaboratively together.