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I specialize in person-centred health care. I understand this care to involve attentive concern, within health, for patients, clinicians, and others, who count equally as persons. I view persons as all human beings, who share fundamentally equal moral interests even in inherently unequal relationships. In recent years I have been exploring how person-centred health care facilitates human flourishing despite and through adversity.
Based at New Zealand’s University of Auckland (UoA), I am an Associate Professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care (School of Population Health). From 2014 to 2019, I held an Honorary Professorship at Queen Margaret University (QMU) in Edinburgh, Scotland.
My international service roles include Associate Editorships of both the European Journal for Person-Centered Healthcare (ESPCH) and the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (JECP). I was made a Distinguished member of the Council of the European Society for Person-Centered Healthcare, chairing its Special Interest Group on Research. I am a former Associate Editor of the International Journal for Person-Centered Medicine.
Before returning to my Auckland alma mater in 1998, I worked at the United Kingdom’s National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, and, before that, at Australia's National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, at the Australian National University (ANU).
Holding a Ph.D. in Demography from the Australian National University, I have published over 170 peer-reviewed Journal articles, and five books, including three sole-authored with Routledge (Taylor and Francis) in Oxford. England.
I have a sixth sole-authored book,"Ageism and person-centred care: Rehabilitating bias through prudence," in press with the same publisher.​ For my book, Person-centred health care: Balancing the welfare of the clinician and patient," I was awarded the 2016 ESPCH Book prize in London (St George's Hospital).
I worked with colleagues at QMU to develop a professional doctorate in person-centred practice, and have contributed to teaching person-centred care at the University College of Southeast Norway, and the University of West London.
At the UoA I have supervised 12 PhD students to completion. I direct a core, postgraduate research methods course, lead-coordinate an undergraduate research methods course, and have directed my University's Bachelor of Health Sciences with Honours degree program. I have served in various leadership roles for New Zealand’s largest funder of health care research.
Colloquium at Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York, 2016.
