Our Health and Social Practice team

Our team is led by highly experienced managers across a range of Health and Social Practice disciplines. We pride ourselves on our friendly and approachable staff, and clinical tutors. Our team is active in the industry and in research, so that they stay connected to the Health and Social Practice industries, and the needs of the communities we service. They will bring you up-to-date curriculum and teaching.

If you have questions about any of our programmes, you are welcome to get in touch with the team managers featured below:

Trudy Pocock

Acting Centre Director

Glennis Birks

Team Manager - Undergraduate Nursing

Helen Nielsen

Team Manager - Postgraduate Health

Ruth Martis

Team Manager - Midwifery

Trudy Pocock

Team Manager - Social Practice

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Dr Ricky Bell

Head of Physiotherapy

Allied Staff

Catherine Evison, Office Manager

Delia Meier, Academic Administrator

Janeane Shrimpton, Academic Administrator

Kelly Hynes, Operations Coordinator

Pip Sullivan, Biomedical Equipment Technician

Sherryl King, Academic Administrator

Principal Academic Staff

Andre McLachlan, Principal Academic Staff Member

Angela Stewart, Principal Academic Staff Member

Gudrun Dannenfeldt, Principal Academic Staff Member

Kevin Stewart, Principal Academic Staff Member

Patricia McClunie-Trust, Principal Academic Staff Member

Dr Ronan O'Toole, Principal Academic Staff Member and Research Lead

Sallie Greenwood, Principal Academic Staff Member

Sue Lichtwark, Principal Academic Staff Member

Zoe Tipa, Principal Academic Staff Member

Senior Academic Staff

Angeline Wood (WITT), Senior Academic Staff Member

De Cleaver, Senior Academic Staff Member

Dr Andrea Donaldson, Senior Academic Staff Member

Janet May, Senior Academic Staff Member

Jean Young, Senior Academic Staff Member

Jenny Song, Senior Academic Staff Member

Jolanda Lemow, Senior Academic Staff Member

Julia Laing, Senior Academic Staff Member

Katrina Fyers, Senior Academic Staff Member

Kay Syminton, Senior Academic Staff Member

Margaret Vick, Senior Academic Staff Member

Maria Te Huia, Senior Academic Staff Member

Morag MacKenzie, Senior Academic Staff Member

Nancy McNamara, Senior Academic Staff Member

Rachel Lamdin-Hunter, Senior Academic Staff Member

Rebecca Giles, Senior Academic Staff Member

Sandra Bunn, Senior Academic Staff Member

Academic Staff

Bill Shaw, Academic Staff Member

Cassandra Cook

Chris Cowley

Christine McDonald, Academic Staff Member

Christine Mercer, Academic Staff Member

Clare Barnett

Gina Nicholas

Jan Liddell, Academic Staff Member

Judy Thomson-Emmett, Academic Staff Member

Lara Blundell (WITT)

Leanne Ryan, Academic Staff Member

Louise van den Berg, Academic Staff Member

Maureen Kelly, Academic Staff Member

Oka Sanerivi, Academic Staff Member

Rachel Taylor, Academic Staff Member

Rochelle Ward, Academic Staff Member

Ricci Wesselink, Academic Staff Member

Sarah Christensen, Academic Staff Member

Sarah McLeod, Academic Staff Member

Shirley Rivers, Academic Staff Member

Steven Ellery, Academic Staff Member (Physiotherapy)

Victoria Donoghue, Academic Staff Member (Physiotherapy)