Role Call - People on the move and getting recognition in the health sector

Former University of Auckland professor and retired gynaecologist and obstetrician Ron Jones was awarded the 2022 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Associa­tion for the Advancement of Science earlier this year. Dr Jones was honoured for being a key person in exposing, in 1984, ethical abuses in Herbert Green’s study of cervical carcinoma in situ at National Women’s Hospital; many participants died. Dr Jones, who was on the hospital staff, later wrote Doctors in Denial: The forgotten women in the ‘unfortunate experiment’.

Paula King and Jane Parker-Bishop are co-chairs of the inaugural Taranaki DHB Consumer Council, aimed at helping to improve the healthcare experience of the community, but particularly high-needs populations including Māori, youth, people living in rural areas and those with disabili­ties. Ms King (Taranaki Tuturu, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine) is clinical nurse educator and kaitaka­waenga/Māori liaison at Te Kahu Pairuri ki Taranaki (Hospice Taranaki). Ms Parker-Bishop says: “I’m Samoan, I’m a mum, I’m married to a Māori man, I’ve got parents, aunties and uncles. So I am that ultimate [health] consumer

Australasian retirement village and resthome/ hospital operator Ryman Healthcare promoted Cheyne Chalmers to a new role of chief executive of its New Zealand arm. Ms Chalmers, who began her healthcare career as a registered nurse, formerly was nurse leader at Green Lane Hospital and a senior lead at Capital & Coast DHB. She moved to Melbourne in 2009, leading residential and support services, nursing and midwifery at Monash Health. She moved back to New Zealand to join Ryman Healthcare as chief operations officer in 2020.