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	The Trustees of the Compassion in Healthcare Trust Pat Armitstead Pat Armitstead is New Zealand’s leader in the Science of Positive Psychology and Humour in the Workplace and has a CV that’s not to be laughed at! Included in her giggliography are some ground breaking achievements, testimony to her ability to successfully combine her business acumen, creativity, and wit. Initially a Registered Nurse, she has worked for 35 years in Education Management and Communication roles in the health  sector and in business. In 1989 she founded her own Advertising Agency, winning 11 awards including the NSW Tourism Award, Media Section and an award from Cacharel in Paris. She has presented over 12,000 hours of keynotes, workshops, seminars and lectures reaching an astounding 55,000 people throughout Australasia. She has toured internationally with Patch Adams, shared the platform with world class speakers such as Ed Tate, Annette King, Catherine Palin Brinkworth, George Manolis, Wayne Berry, Keith Abraham and Wayne Mansfield from Australia, Linda Miles, Lavonn Steiner from the USA and recently presented to an International Humour and Wellness conference at Armidale,  University in NSW. She was President of the National Speakers Association NZ 2001, The Most Awarded Speaker at the 2000 NSANZ Convention and 2002 NZ Speaker of the Year. Pat conducts programs in Humour in business and life , Good Grief and Healing art using bodycasting. Sharad Paul Sharad Paul was born England, but grew up in India.  His parents were both doctors who left comfortable medical careers to purse medical mission work in India.  He has a medical practice in Blockhouse Bay and is a visiting consultant at Waitakere Hospital.  Sharad is also a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Auckland and in Skin Cancer at Australia’s Queensland University. He also completed a Law degree – he holds a Masters in Law (Medical Law) from the University of  Glasgow. In his spare time Sharad writes literary fiction.  His novel, Cool Cut, was published by Picador in 2007. He also owns the award-winning independent bookstore/café Baci Lounge, which puts profits into literacy programmes for disadvantaged children and has featured in TIME magazine. Robin Youngson Robin Youngson is the Founder of the Centre for Compassion in Healthcare. He is an anaesthetic specialist at Waitakere Hospital and North Shore Hospital in Auckland. He began medicine as a mature student and has always been passionate about improving the experience of patients within healthcare. Robin was the Clinical Leader overseeing the development of the new Waitakere Hospital, which serves an underprivileged and culturally diverse population in west Auckland. In the new hospital development a lot of emphasis was placed on creating a safe, healthy and caring environment for those who work within the hospital, which is reflected in the care and compassion shown to patients and family members. Robin has held a number of leadership roles. He was the founder of the Clinical Leaders Association of New Zealand (CLANZ). He was Acting Chair of the EpiQual national committee in 2007 and then a member of the national Quality Improvement Committee in 2007/8. In 2007, Robin was a spokesman for the World Health Organisation in the Tokyo launch of a new WHO strategy and policy on "People at the Centre of Health Care". His work on compassion in healthcare is achieving international influence. Isabelle Sherrard Isabelle is a Registered Nurse and has been since she completed her training at Christchurch Hospital in the late 1950s.  Her life as a nurse has been rich and varied both here in New Zealand and overseas.  She have never wanted to be anything else.  It was Isabelle's sense of compassion for people which lead her into this career.  In her days of clinical nursing her experience was mainly in intensive care units.  Since 1976 she has worked in nursing education in Auckland and was the inaugural Head of School at UNITEC.  Isabelle found working in education very satisfying and these positions also required her sense of compassion for people.  She has served on the Nursing Council of NZ and was awarded a QSO for services to the community.  On the family front, Isabelle lives with her husband and they are parents of their daughter and son and grandparents of two young children. (Isabelle is also a Justice of Peace, and has a Master of Philosophy) Joan Campbell   Dr Joan Campbell is an integrative health professional and registered medical practitioner specialising in acupuncture, working in her own well-established and successful medical practice in Auckland, New Zealand.  She has worked in medicine and allied fields since 1966, including as a registered nurse, medical doctor, GP obstetrician, psychologist (specialising in head injury), medical/traditional acupuncturist, university teacher and has an interest in homeopathic, nutritional and hormonal medicines.  Dr Campbell is a trained teacher and co-ordinator for the post-graduate and masters Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) programmes at the Auckland University of Technology, and pharmacology teacher at the New Zealand College of Chinese Medicine, Auckland. Dr Campbell is: formerly a GP obstetrician in Waitakere (1982 – 1990) and then specialist acupuncturist since 1990 a member of the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association Inc (AIMA), New Zealand Institute of Acupuncture Inc (NZIA) a founding member of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority expert panel for acupuncture and the development of the National Diploma of Acupuncture and its current revision co-ordinator of the application to government by the acupuncture profession for recognition of acupuncture as a profession under the Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act 2003 chairman of the New Zealand Acupuncture Standards Authority Inc (NZASA) which is recognised in statute as a registration authority for ACC treatment providers an organiser of numerous conferences and workshops for professional acupuncture groups and allied health professionals e.g. the acupuncture satellite symposium of the 34th World Congress of the International Union of Physiological Societies, August 2001; joint editor of the conference abstracts published in the International Congress series 1238, Excerpta Medica - Acupuncture, is there a physiological basis? (2002) Dr Campbell is a wife to Graeme, mother to Janette and grandmother to Zachary. Christian Dahmen Christian is the founder of ChristianDahmen Ltd that coaches and mentors organisational leaders and decision makers of profit and not-for-profit organisations. His clients include executives who are leading well-known New Zealand and Australian Blue Chip companies as well as entrepreneurs with big dreams. He lectures Personal Development at Monash’s Business school and is supporting several local Auckland and national educational initiatives. He founded a Montessori Primary school in Howick, Auckland. Christian is also an Independent Director of On Brand Partner and two small but rapidly growing companies in Australia. Christian is a board member of Melbourne-based Eyes Wide Open, organising humanitarian tours for teenagers to foster their growth- and leadership development. He chairs the Catholic Parish Council of St Marks in Pakuranga, Auckland. Christian has served on the Boards of the Human Resource Institute NZ, Montessori Association NZ (National Council), Pakuranga College and Howick Primary School. As a Partner (or equivalent) in three global consulting firms, Christian has been involved in many international large-scale transformation projects. Previously, Christian was the European HR Director for Procter & Gamble’s Cosmetic business. He holds a Master degree in Psychology and Economics. Christian has been a Trustee of the Centre for Compassion in Healthcare since 2009. Barbara Wickenden   Barbara has spent her working life as a Librarian. Her particular passion is reference work, and she has applied these skills to whichever library she has been working in at the time. Over the years she has worked in almost every type of library that there is, over many places in New Zealand. Like most librarians Barbara started work in a Public library, but then shifted to Ngarita Gordon Library which was attached to Ardmore Teachers’ College. Subsequently, she worked for the National Library’s Schools Library Service, the Plunket Society, Family Planning, Central School of Nursing, attached to Greenlane Hospital, Manukau Polytechnic and currently at Waitemata District Health Board. In the middle of all these jobs she spent two years in London.  The reference librarian’s mantra is “the right book (or information) for the person”. There is a particular delight in finding exactly the right material for a requestor. Although Barbara works in a clinical environment she also has a continuing interest in alternative and complementary health. Her other interests include spinning and weaving, what is happening in her garden, reading, art, music and dance.   << BACK