Professor Phillippa Poole, ONZM, of Auckland, for services to medical education
Professor Phillippa Poole has held teaching and mentoring roles through the University of Auckland and Auckland City Hospital, and has advocated for change in specialist colleges and statutory medical regulatory bodies. She was the first woman to be appointed Head of the School of Medicine at the University of Auckland, having previously led the Medical Programme. She was the first woman elected as President of the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand. She has advocated for the Māori and Pacific Admissions Scheme and Vision 20:20, the University of Auckland’s social justice initiative to increase Māori and Pacific Peoples in the medical workforce. Professor Poole has been an expert member on medical undergraduate education, prevocational and vocational training initiatives and committees with the Australian and New Zealand Medical Councils.