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Kate Davenport (Chair)

Kate is currently a Barrister Sole dealing with commercial and civil litigation, medico-legal litigation and family law (1989-present). Prior to this she was a Solicitor at Masons Bristol, London, England (1988-1989). She was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor before the High Court of New Zealand and has completed a Bachelors of Laws (Honours) at the University of Auckland, a Master of Jurisprudence (with distinction) at Auckland University, a Certificate of Comparative Advocacy at the McGeorge School of Law, Washington and a programme of instruction for lawyers at Harvard Law School, Boston. Ms Davenport is currently deputy chair of the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (2004-present) and deputy chair of the Registered Architects Board.

She is a current member of the New Zealand Bar Association, a former member of the Audit Group Royal College Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2003-2005) and previous convenor of the Ethics Committees of the Auckland District Law Society (2002-2005).


Dr Christine Forster (MNZM) (Deputy Chairperson)

Christine is a general practitioner in Auckland and, prior to medical training, was a researcher in the area of reproductive endocrinology. Her former roles have included Chair of the Abortion Supervisory Committee for six years, NECAHR member and member of the Auckland Regional Ethics Committee. Christine completed the Diploma in Professional Ethics in 2004. She is married with four children.


Lynley Anderson

Lynley is employed as a senior lecturer at the Bioethics Centre at Otago University. As part of her role she teaches ethics and professional development within the medical, physiotherapy, dentistry and midwifery schools at Otago. Lynley was the former and founding editor of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and the New Zealand Bioethics Journal. She is on the University of Otago Human Ethics Committee and is the former Chair of the Ethics Committee of the New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists. She is married with three sons.


Jackie Freeman (MTchLn, B.Ed, Dip. Teaching)

Jackie is a part-time teacher who has taught mainly primary school children for 16 years. For the last 13 years, Jackie has been a consumer of fertility services in New Zealand. Jackie is an active member of the Fertility New Zealand.

Professor John Hutton (Ph D, FRANZCOG, CREI)

John is a clinician specialising in Reproductive Medicine. Until 2008, he was the Medical Director of Fertility Associates Wellington where he still works. He is also Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences and was the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology there between 1983 and 1994.


Hazel Irvine

 Hazel is a registered nurse, midwife, ACC registered counsellor and psychotherapist, She was a founding member in 1979 of a women’s health collective offering information, counselling and advocacy to women. Hazel has worked in the public hospital system as a nurse-midwife and as a manager. She has also had several years of private practice as a nurse-therapist, her main clientele being women, couples and families coping with fertility issues, pregnancy loss, childbirth and postnatal depression. In 1991 a Lion’s Fellowship enabled Hazel to investigate independent nurse practitioners in Britain. In 1996 she travelled to UK on a Churchill Fellowship to study the implementation of professional supervision for nurses and midwives.

In 2004 Hazel was one of a technical group formed by the Abortion Supervisory Committee to produce Guidelines for Mifepristone Medical Abortion in New Zealand. She currently lives in Wellington with her partner and three sons, is a Sea Scout leader and a keen gardener. She has a private practice offering professional supervision, counselling and psychotherapy and also works part-time as a midwife and a gynaecology nurse at Wellington Hospital.


Associate Professor Huia Tomlins-Jahnke

 Huia is Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu, Ngati Toa Rangatira and Ngati Hine. She is currently an Associate Professor of Maori Education in the College of Education at Massey University. Huia trained as a teacher and holds professional qualifications in education (BEd, MEd Hons). She worked for 12 years as a lecturer in Te Putahi a Toi School of Maori Studies at Massey which has a strong health research and development focus. She has extensive experience in iwi research and has a PhD that investigated the nature of tribal service provision in health and social services. She has expertise in Māori theoretical, methodological and ethical frameworks and working with Māori communities. Huia is Deputy Chair of the Massey University Human Ethics Committee and a member of the Social & Human Sciences Sub Commission of the NZ National Commission for UNESCO which has as a key focus the Ethics of Knowledge Production. Huia is also a member of the Sub Commissions Pacific Ethics Consultation Steering Committee and a recent appointee to the Bioethics Council.


Robin (Rob) Thompson (Ngāti Kahungunu)

 Rob is currently a Property Consultant and Development & Construction Project Manager (1996-present). He has completed a Graduate Diploma in Public Health (Engineering). Mr Thompson is currently a Community Representative on Nga Kai Tataki Māori Health for the Waitemata District Health Board and previous Councillor and Chairman of the Taupo Borough Council, founding Councillor for the Tongariro United Regional Council and a Councillor and Chairman for the Rodney District Council. He was a founding board member of the Tauhara College Board of Governors and is a past president and past district chairman of Rotary in New Zealand. He is a former social worker involved with adoptions, fostering, familiies and C&YP Court. Mr Thompson has extensive personal experience with In-Vetro Fertilisation; his brother and sister in law were the first to have successful IVF children in Australasia, his eldest son and his wife have a child through IVF, and his daughter also has two children through IVF.


Deborah Rowe (Ngāi Tahu)

 Deborah Rowe (Ngāi Tahu) is currently a Nurse Consultant for the Auckland District Health Board, an undergraduate and postgraduate lecturer at the University of Auckland and a Senior Staff Nurse at the Women’s Health Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (2005-present). Prior to this she was a Clinical Charge Nurse at National Women’s Hospital (1997-2005) and a research fellow at the Liggins Institute of Research. Miss Rowe was appointed as Deputy Chair of the Nursing Council of New Zealand in January 2009.

Miss Rowe is completing a PhD in Management and Nursing and has completed a Master of Health Science and Management, a Post Graduate Diploma in Health Management at the University of Auckland a Bachelor of Health Science Nursing at Auckland University of Technology and a Diploma in Registered Comprehensive Nursing at Auckland Institute of Technology. She is a member of the Mâori Advisory Committee National Screening Unit (2007-present), a Mâori representative on the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee (2006-present), a member of the Auckland District Health Board Mâori Nurses Group, and a member of the Nursing Council. Miss Rowe is the previous chair of the Regional Committee of the Richmond Fellowship of New Zealand and a part time community support worker for the Intellectually Handicapped of New Zealand.





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