He studied medicine at the University of Otago and trained in Paediatrics in Christchurch, Brisbane and Newcastle upon Tyne. He previously chaired the RACP Indigenous Child Health Working Group and is the deputy chair of the Māori Health Committee of the RACP.

He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland School of Medicine. His areas of interest include Māori Health, Medical Education and Paediatric Diabetes.

In 2019 Te Aro was awarded Royal Australasian College of Physicians Trainee of the Year. In 2021 he completed a Master of Science in Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, supported by the UK government as a Chevening Scholar.

Outside of medicine, Te Aro is a graduate of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo - The Institute of Excellence in the Māori language. He was recently included as one of Te Rau Ora’s 100 Māori Leaders.

As co-chair of the Te Whatu Ora Waikato Clinical Equity Leadership, Waikato Clinical Procedures Committee and member of the Board of Clinical Governance, she has provided strategic direction and led local and regional service planning efforts, resulting in significant equity gain. Myra co-led the design and implementation of a Kaupapa Māori service at Te Whatu Ora Waikato collaborating with Māori leaders, kaimānaki (patient navigators), patients, whānau (family) and the organisation, to address waitlist inequities in planned care services.

She also serves as a board member of Hei Ahuru Mowai (Māori Cancer Leadership Aotearoa).

He is the Chair of the Māori Health Committee for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island and Māori Health Committee for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) and is also an equity advisor for a number of wider haematology groups.

He is Clinical Equity Lead and heads the Māori senior doctors’ group and peer support for Māori Junior doctors (Te Minenga) at Tauranga Hospital. He is also Associate Chief Medical Officer at Tauranga Hospital.

He is a member of the RACP Māori Health Committee and found this to be a fulfilling part of his medical training as is he passionate about supporting Māori doctors throughout their training.

Fergus plans to undertake two years of further fellowship training in Interventional Cardiology prior to taking up an SMO position.

He lives with his wife and son in Karori, and loves spending time out on the trails of Te Whanganui a Tara.

Luke has various research interests including Hauora and Sports and High Performance. He was recently awarded the prestigious Marsden Research Fund for the project He Awe Māpara: The intersections of indigenous imaginings, decolonisation and mainstream sport for Māori, as culturally Māori.

To compliment these roles, Luke supports a number of high-performance teams such as The Hurricanes, Central Pulse and Māori All Blacks which allows him to apply some of the knowledge gained from research.

She loves her mahi because It feels like she's giving something back to where she originated. Kirsty has two tamariki that attend a Kura in central Auckland where she currently lives.

She often commutes to northland and finds great value in working in community that have very limited access to health care - as just 4 years ago there was no gastroenterology service both of Auckland at all and now there are 4 of gastroenterologists.

Dr Adair is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and brings many years of governance and leadership expertise to our caucus.

She is passionate about supporting, nurturing and serving whānau Māori, our Māori caucus within the RACP and the community she serves in Spinal Cord Impairment and Amputee Rehabilitation care.

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