Our Board members
National Health Board members:
Dr Murray Horn - Chair
Dr Murray Horn served in the New Zealand Treasury for 18 years, including four years as its Chief Executive (Secretary to the Treasury). He subsequently held a number of senior executive roles with ANZ Banking Group, including Managing Director of the group's New Zealand business and then its international Institutional Banking business out of Sydney.
Dr Horn has previously served on a number of boards, including the New Zealand Tourism Board. He has represented New Zealand at the OECD, as a governor at the World Bank and as an alternate director at the International Monetary Fund. Dr Horn joined the board of Telecom in July 2007 and is currently Chairman of Telecom's Audit and Risk Management Committee. He chaired the Minister of Health's Ministerial Review Group that reported in July 2009. Dr Horn received his PhD at Harvard University.
Dr Jeff Brown
Dr Jeff Brown has been a paediatrician at Palmerston North Hospital for 18 years. He is very involved in resuscitation and life support training as Chair of Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) NZ, as developer of NZRC Newborn Life Support (NLS) Course and through the training of NLS Instructors to nationally consistent standards for all health professionals at the birth of a baby. He is also involved in education, assessment and accreditation of future paediatricians as member of RACP Education Committee and as a Senior Examiner.
As National President of Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS), Dr Brown is a champion of a high-functioning public health system and clinical leadership.
Rob Cooper
Rob Cooper is of Ngapuhi, Ngati Hine descent and is CEO of the Ngati Hine Health Trust, which is a large-scale Northern Maori owned provider of health & disability support services, dental services, social and educational services, restorative justice & youth programmes and a wide range of community and specialist nursing services.
He is a current member of the Auckland District Health Board, and is a Director of several health research organisations, including the James Henare Maori Research Centre. In 2009 Rob was appointed to the Government's Whanau Ora Taskforce to advise on improving Government-funded services to Maori and in 2010 was appointed Chairman of the Whanau Ora Governance Group which is responsible for implementing the Whanau Ora policy.
Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon (Christchurch) is the Executive Director of Nursing at Canterbury DHB (2002-present). Prior to this she was Director of Nursing Practice at South Auckland Health (2000-2002).
Ms Gordon completed the Top Management Programme (1997) through the Ministry of Health, a Certificate in Health Economics (1995) and a Diploma in Public Health, Society Health and Public Policy (1992) at Victoria University.
She also completed a Certificate in Health Education and Promotion at the Wellington School of Medicine (1991), an Advanced Diploma in Nursing at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute (1990) and was Registered as a General and Obstetric Nurse through the West Coast School of Nursing (1984).
Prof Des Gorman
Des Gorman is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean in the University of Auckland's Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. He's highly experienced in health workforce issues and in the field of training medical professionals.
He was a Commissioner on the Ministry of Health's Commission on Resident Medical Officers and was also the Chairman of the Minister of Health's Taskforce that reviewed the funding of the training of the New Zealand health workforce in 2009.
He has been appointed recently as the Executive Chairman of Health Workforce New Zealand.
Marion Guy
Marion Guy is a Registered Nurse who has worked in primary health care for 20 years along with other nursing roles in secondary care. She is an elected member of the Bay of Plenty DHB and is also a member of the Western Bay of Plenty PHO.
Marion was president of New Zealand Nurses Organisation for four years ending September 2009 and is also on the board of the International Council of Nurses.
Marion completed a Post Grad Diploma (nursing) in 2007 and a Masters of Nursing in 2009. She was recognised in the 2010 New Years Honours for her services to nursing.
Dr Tom Marshall
Dr Marshall has been a general practitioner in Mount Eden, Auckland since 1966 and is a Fellow of the New Zealand Medical Association, the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and the Institute of Directors (NZ).
He was formerly an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland.
Dr Marshall was the foundation Chairperson of ProCare Health Limited, the President of the New Zealand Medical Association and a member of the board of Independent Practitioner Association Council.
He is currently a member of the board of the Auckland Cancer Society. In 1996 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine and the community.
Dr Murray Milner
Dr Murray Milner spent most of his 38 years in the ICT industry in Telecom New Zealand, rising to become the Chief Technology Officer for Telecom. Dr Milner championed the transformation of the New Zealand Telecom's environment into a high-performance IP network offering leading edge services throughout the country.
He now runs a busy consulting practice in New Zealand and works extensively with central government, local government and enterprises on ICT strategy and infrastructure development. He has been advising on the Connected Health programme for over three years.
He is also currently Acting Chair of the National Health IT Board and through this position is keen to help achieve substantial improvements in ICT capability to the benefit of health care within New Zealand.
He is a Fellow of IPENZ, an active member of IET and IEEE and is on the editorial panel for the Telecommunications Journal of Australia.
Dr Bev O'Keefe
Dr Bev O'Keefe was a partner in a three-doctor urban general practice in Rotorua from 1980 until 2009. This was interspersed with a year in general practice in rural British Columbia, Canada in 1987-88.
During her time in Rotorua she was very active in local general practice organisational activity and was chair of the Rotorua General Practice Group IPA from 2001 to 2004. She was responsible for founding multidisciplinary general practice clinics within local secondary schools, some of the first such clinics in New Zealand.
Following three years as deputy chair of the IPA Council of NZ (IPAC), she became Chair of IPAC in 2006 and since February 2009 has held the position of Executive Chair, based in Wellington. She has continued in that role since IPAC rebranded in February 2010 to become General Practice NZ.
Between 2006 and 2009 she was also Chair of the NZ General Practice Leaders Forum.
Hayden Wano
Hayden Wano is of Te Atiawa, Taranaki and Ngati Awa Iwi descent.
He has over 20 years' experience in senior health management, and is currently Chief Executive of Tui Ora Limited (a Maori development organisation) and Hauora Taranaki PHO Limited.
He has more than 25 years' experience in mental health, community and medical services. He has held positions as Director of Clinical Services with Taranaki Healthcare Limited, and was Chairman of Taranaki District Health Board from 2000 to 2007.
Mr Wano holds a number of other governance positions, including Chairmanship of the Health Sponsorship Council, and is a fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives.
Dr Margaret Wilsher
Dr Margaret Wilsher MD, FRACP is the Chief Medical Officer at Auckland District Health Board and a respiratory physician working both in public and private sectors. She is a graduate of the University of Otago, with postgraduate training at Green Lane Hospital and then research and further clinical training at the National Heart and Lung Institute and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
Dr Wilsher continues work as a clinical leader in the public sector with an active clinical and research practice, and is a clinical teacher for the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. Outside of the DHB, she has been a Council member and examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, President of the Auckland MedicoLegal Society and has served on a number of other professional committees.
