Dr. Emma Lawrey trained at the University of Auckland having grown up the child of NZ ex-pats living in Canada. She is now an emergency physician at Auckland hospital but has had varying subspecialty interests and accumulated postgraduate qualifications along the way. She was the first education fellow at Middlemore hospital, has done extended study in clinical toxicology and now works in disaster and humanitarian medicine.
She is the Clinical Director of the NZ Government field hospital – the New Zealand Medical Assistance Team (NZMAT) - and is currently a disaster response specialist for RespondGlobal in Australia and is on the clinical advisory board for TEND. She has previously worked for the emergency medicine secretariat of WHO in Geneva and the Pacific Office in Fiji.
Emma is a single parent, sharing care of three beautiful children and enjoys rock climbing and trail climbing.
In this episode, we discuss her journey into medicine, her work in disaster relief and humanitarian aid, NZMAT and their need in recruitment, her experience in working for the World Health Organisation, gender disparity in medicine, and work-life balance in emergency medicine.
NZMAT information can be found here: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/emergency-management/new-zealand-medical-assistance-team
If you would like to volunteer for NZMAT, please get in touch and I will put you in contact with Dr. Lawrey.
As always, if you have any feedback or queries, feel free to get in touch at doctornos@pm.me.
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As always, if you have any feedback or queries, or if you would like to get in touch with the speaker, feel free to get in touch at doctornos@pm.me.
Audio credit:
Bliss by Luke Bergs https://soundcloud.com/bergscloud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/33DJFs9
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/e9aXhBQDT9Y
