Professor Helen Pilmore, of Auckland, CNZM for services to nephrology and transplantation services
Professor Helen Pilmore is a transplant nephrologist at Auckland Hospital, having helped establish the simultaneous kidney/pancreas transplantation service. She has driven measures for disadvantaged people to access transplantation and has worked with international colleagues to resolve barriers for Māori, Pacific and First Nations peoples. She has been New Zealand lead investigator for international trials and helped design and implement large-scale local and multi-national trials. She is a pioneer and world expert in cardiac disease in patients with kidney failure. She authored reference standards for the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes global guidelines group. She co-chaired the Covid Rapid Response Team for Transplantation for New Zealand and Australia. She was President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Professor Pilmore developed the University of Auckland’s Renal Asynchronous teaching programme.