Keynote Speakers

Dr Paul Worley – Expanding Opportunities for Academic Collaborations and Research on LICs

Dr. Paul Worley is Dean of Medicine at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.  Dr. Worley studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1984.  In 1992, he was elected President of the Rural Doctors Association of South Australia, and in 1994, he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Rural Health at Flinders University. In addition to maintaining an active clinical workload in rural and urban practice, he is responsible for coordinating the rapid expansion of Flinders University's rural programs. He is also the past Academic Director on the Board of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, and the Executive Chair of the Rural and Remote Area Placement Program. In 2001, Dr. Worley was appointed professor and director of the Flinders University Rural Clinical School and Editor-in-Chief of Rural and Remote Health, the international journal of rural and remote health research, education, practice and policy.

Eileen McKinlay

Eileen McKinlay is a senior lecturer in primary health care in the Primary Health Care and General Practice Department, University of Otago Wellington. A nurse by background, Eileen has also worked as a quality auditor and researcher. Her current research interests include workforce development, the nature of team work in primary care, primary mental health care and undergraduate interprofessional education. Eileen teaches in the undergraduate medical student programme and in 2011 organised and taught an interprofessional pilot for undergraduate medical physiotherapy and dietetic students.  Over the next three years she will be involved in the Tairawhiti undergraduate interprofessional education pilot in curriculum development and staff mentoring. Eileen also directs the interprofessional postgraduate programme which offers qualifications in primary health care and travel medicine, attracting students from a broad range of disciplines working in community and integrated care roles.

Dr Lisa Whitehead, BSc(Hons)(Lond) MA(Liverpool) PhD (Liverpool) RN, FCNA(NZ)

Since being appointed to the University of Otago Christchurch Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies in 2006, Dr Lisa Whitehead has made an outstanding contribution to nursing research, locally and nationally.   Director of the Centre since 2009, Dr Whitehead's research interests include supportive care in cancer, assessment and management of fatigue in chronic illness; self-management of long-term conditions; and computer-mediated research. Since being awarded her PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2004, Dr Whitehead has maintained a steady publication record. She has been the principal applicant or co-investigator on over 20 research studies.   In addition to developing and maintaining her own research profile, Dr Whitehead has engaged in research capability and capacity building in nursing, including contributing to the establishment of three research groups at the centre and setting up a research mentoring scheme.   Dr Whitehead has convened and lectured on University papers since 1997, with a focus on research methods, long-term condition management and medical sociology. She supervises nursing Master of Health Sciences and PhD students, as well as serving as internal and external examiner for Masters Theses and PhD dissertations.   Dr Whitehead is also the director of the national TEC-funded Strategy to Advance Research in Nursing and Allied Health (STAR), a three-year research-capability-building initiative, attracting funding of $2.7 million. She has been recognised with the 2008 Early Career Award for distinction in research and the 2009 Invited Fellow of the College of Nursing (NZ) for demonstration of professional excellence and leadership in nursing.

Concurrent Speakers

Keri Bolton Oetzel, PhD, MPH Keri Bolton Oetzel, PhD, MPH is a clinical counselor and consultant. She works extensively with children, adolescents, families, and health care providers, within medical settings regarding behavior change. She is a member of MINT (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers) and provides training around the world in Motivational Interviewing. She is engaged in work on several federally-funded grants that focus on pediatric obesity, telehealth, and Motivational Interviewing. Keri and her family just relocated from the US to New Zealand.

John G. Oetzel John G. Oetzel is professor in the Department of Management Communication at the University of Waikato. He teaches courses in intercultural communication, health communication, and conflict management. His research program focuses on understanding and improving problematic interaction between and among people with different group identities in the work place and in health settings.  He is co-author (with Stella Ting-Toomey) of Managing Intercultural Communication Effectively (2001, Sage) and editor (with Stella Ting-Toomey) of The Sage Handbook of Conflict Communication (2006, Sage). His is author of Intercultural Communication: A Layered Approach (2009, Pearson). He is also the author of more than 60 articles and book chapters.