Dr Hilary Blacklock, ONZM, of Auckland, for services to haematology
Dr Hilary Blacklock helped established and has been the Medical Director of the New Zealand Bone Marrow Donor Registry (NZBMDR) since inception in 1996.
This database of volunteer donors enables patients with acute leukaemia and other aggressive blood cancers without a compatible family donor to have access to a stem cell transplant.
The NZBMDR has primarily recruited healthy adults of Māori and Polynesian ethnicity, as other donors are available from international registries.
Since the establishment of the NZBMDR, more than 146 life-saving transplants have been performed.
Dr Blacklock was the founding clinician and former Clinical Director of the Middlemore Hospital Haematology Department.
She has published more than 90 research papers. Dr Blacklock is a Trustee of the patient support group of Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand.