Dr Stephanie Valent is an Emergency Medicine Specialist working at Whangarei Hospital Emergency Department.  Stephanie has several years of experience in both prehospital and retrieval medicine in Aotearoa and is passionate about delivering excellent care to the most unwell patients in the furthest flung corners of Aotearoa.  She also gets a real buzz from connecting diverse individuals and teams to work together towards a common cause.  

When she is not working, or wrangling her three young children, she loves getting into the outdoors and particularly enjoys horse riding, tramping and spearfishing.

Deputy Chair 

Louise is an emergency medicine specialist currently working in Ōtautahi Christchurch. During her ED training in Auckland, she undertook a HEMS fellowship with Auckland rescue helicopter trust, and continued to work as a PHRM doctor for 7 years. She is passionate about health equity, human factors and high performing, interprofessional teams. Outside of medicine, Louise is a fan of most things that go fast down hills. And knitting! 

Secretary

Emma is a an Emergency Medicine Specialist working at Auckland City Hospital and has also worked as a Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine Physician for the past 9 years.  She is dedicated to PHRM, driven by a passion for ensuring equitable patient care for patients living outside of the main centres and distant from tertiary healthcare.  She has special interests which include medical education, ultrasound and advanced trauma care. 

Outside of medicine, she loves spending time with her partner and super cute but very naughty spaniel Loki, enjoying adventure travel, diving, skiing, cycling and tennis. 

Committee member

Justin is a rural and prehospital resuscitationist, living on the wild West Coast with his whānau. Trauma surgery fellow in USA, now a born again kiwi and working in his dream jobs as rural hospital SMO, and as a flight doctor / DTWP and clinical educator for HEMS NZ across all heli rescue bases (GCHA and HOL) on Te Waipounamu. Previously worked HEMS in Iceland. Specialist team leader for CanyonSAR and RiverSAR in NZ, international high altitude and first descent whitewater expedition medic. 

Sav's interest in PHRM was sparked as a junior anaesthetist, when she undertook a retrieval post at Birmingham Children’s, UK.  During this post she was introduced to the concepts of high functioning, inter-professional teams, human factors and interagency working.  Sav followed this up with a stint in ICU in Christchurch, NZ, before returning to the UK to complete anaesthetic training. She undertook a pre-hospital and retrieval fellowship with the Emergency Medical Retrieval Scotland (EMRS), and returned to them as a consultant, following paediatric anaesthesia and PICU fellowships in Glasgow and Auckland.  Sav then worked as a consultant for Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Cymru/Wales.  Her interests lie in human factors, patient safety and CRM.  She has taught widely in simulation and human factors, both civilian and military.  A Ping-Pong-Pom, she has now returned to settle, with her family, in Ōtautahi Christchurch.  She hopes her experience to date can contribute to the development of aeromedical medicine in Aotearoa.