Advisory groups

Pharmac works with groups of experts to provide advice and recommendations, as needed. A group may be set up for varying lengths of time, depending on the type of activity Pharmac is seeking advice on.

Advisory groups meet as required to discuss issues referred to them by Pharmac. Records of the meetings are published on this website.

COVID-19 Treatments Advisory Group (ad hoc)

• Dr Jane Thomas – Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine Specialist (Chair PTAC)
• Dr Brian Anderson – Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine Specialist (PTAC member)
• Dr Kerry Benson-Cooper – Intensivist
• Dr Tim Cutfield – Infectious diseases physician
• Eamon Dufy – Antimicrobial pharmacist
• Dr Gillian Hood – Intensivist 
• Dr Robyn Manuel – (PTAC member)
• Dr Graham Mills – Infectious Diseases physician
• Professor Stephen Munn – Transplant surgeon (PTAC member)
• Associate Professor Marius Rademaker – Dermatologist
• Dr Nigel Raymond – Infectious diseases physician
• Dr Justin Travers – Respiratory specialist

Interim Medical Devices Advisory Group (iMDAG)

IMDAG’s role is to support Pharmac as it develops a national approach for hospital medical device management including category management and health technology assessment for medical devices.

IMDAG has been designed as an interim group. This will enable Pharmac to be responsive and adaptive in how it seeks advice as the medical devices programme develops and as Pharmac works closely with its sector partners.

Members of the Interim Medical Devices Advisory Group

• Stephen Munn (Chair, PTAC member) – Transplant Surgeon (retired)
• James Le Fevre (Deputy Chair, PTAC member) – Emergency Medicine Specialist
• Laura Aileone – National Chief Midwife
• Kevin Ellyett – Scientific Director, Respiratory Physiology
• Matthew Schofield – Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago
• Matthew Strother – Medical Oncologist and Clinical Pharmacologist (PTAC member)
• Liz Young – Clinical Product Coordinator (Registered Nurse)

Interventional Cardiology Advisory Group (ICAG)

• Professor Scott Harding (Chair) — Interventional Cardiologist
• Dr Seif El-Jack — Interventional Cardiologist
• Ms Sandi Graham — Charge Nurse Manager
• Dr Madhav Menon — Interventional Cardiologist
• Professor Mark Webster — Structural Interventionalist
• Associate Professor Philip Adamson — Interventional Cardiologist
• Dr Andrew Chatfield — Coronary and Structural Interventional Cardiologist
• Dr Sarah Fairley — Interventional and Obstetric Cardiologist
• Ms Victoria Turner — Acting Service Manager Emergency Care and Medicine  

Interventional Radiology Advisory Group

• Professor Stephen Munn (Chair) - Transplant Surgeon (retired),  PTAC member
• Associate Professor Andrew Holden – Director of Interventional Services
• Dr Manar Khashram – Head of Department Vascular Surgery
• Dr Martin Krauss – Clinical Lead Interventional Radiology
• Dr Shueh Hao Lim – Clinical Lead Interventional Radiology
• Trudy Shearer – Charge Medical Imaging Technologist  
• Kelly Teague – General Manager - Interventional Radiology
• Andrea Walford RN – Radiology Clinical Nurse Manager
   

Respiratory Procurement Advisory Group

• Dr Justin Travers (Chair) – Respiratory Physician
• Dr Andrew Corin – General Practitioner
• Betty Poot – Respiratory Specialist
• Ann Wheat – Asthma Nurse Educator/Nurse Manager
• Ann Nguyen – Hospital Pharmacist
• Teresa Chalecki – Nurse Manager
• Dr Phil Weeks – General Practitioner
• Noelene Rapana – Nurse
• Joanna Turner – Pharmacist

Strategic Medical Devices Advisory Group (SMDAG)

• Samantha Davenport (Representative for Midwifery Leaders) 
• Simon Donlevy (Representative for Chief Operational Officers)
• Craig Green (Representative for Chief Financial Officers)
• Ross Kennedy (Representative for Clinical practice committee) 
• Jayne Ladbrook (Representative for procurement professionals) 
• Kate Gilmour (Representative for Directors of Nursing)
• Sanjoy Nand (Representative for Allied Health, Scientific & Technical)
• Brian Yow (Representative for Chief Information Officers)
• Tim Wood (Representative for General Managers Planning & Funding)
• Currently vacant (Representative for Chief Medical Officers)

Wound Care Advisory Group (not currently active)

• Julie Betts (Chair) – Wound Care Nurse Practitioner
• Alan Shackleton – Nurse Consultant - Wound Care Service Clinical Lead
• Amanda Pagan – Wound Care Specialist Nurse
• Catherine Hammond – Wound Care Clinical Nurse Specialist & Educator
• Emil Schmidt – Nurse Specialist Wound Care
• Jonathan Heather – Plastic Surgeon
• Susie Wendelborn – Specialty Clinical Nurse Wound Care
• Wendy Mildon – Clinical Nurse Specialist Wound Care