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	Hot Topic: Cardiovascular update Raina Elley is a senior lecturer at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland and a general practitioner in South Auckland. Her research involves lifestyle interventions in primary health care for falls prevention, increasing physical activity, reducing cardiovascular risk and improving diabetes management. She recently led the Falls Assessment Clinical Trial (FACT) assessing the effectiveness of a community-based multi-factorial nurse-led intervention to reduce falls in older adults who had fallen previously.

	Hot Topic: Hospice Yvonne Bray is a registered nurse and lecturer who has worked in palliative care education since 1996. Her first palliative care education modules were run by the Hospices of Auckland from 1996 till 2000 when she joined the Goodfellow Unit and initiated the creation of the Postgraduate Palliative Care Courses that are run for multidisciplinary health practitioners. Yvonne completed her Bachelor of Health Science and Master of Arts degrees during this time and enjoys working with students in one-on-one coaching and classroom interaction. Yvonne also works at the Hospice South Auckland as Professional Development Manager and finds the interactions between these two areas of work are complimentary to one another. Self care and personal boundaries form an important part of juggling roles for this wife, mother and grandmother.

	Hot Topic: Vitamin D Deficiency Linda Bryant is a Clinical Advisory Pharmacist working primarily with East Health PHO providing medicines information and clinical medication reviews. Her PhD through the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at Auckland University investigated the impact of pharmacists undertaking clinical medication reviews on medicines-related health outcomes. Linda is also involved in postgraduate teaching and undertakes other clinical pharmacy roles in primary care.

	Hot Topic: Preventing Falls Ngaire Kerse is an academic GP and Associate Professor at the University of Auckland. She runs a research programme about improving health for older people and has conducted three trials in falls prevention.

	Hot Topic: Management of Fever in Children Karen Hoare originally trained as an adult and children’s nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children, Gt. Ormond St, London and Watford general hospital. She qualified as a health visitor in 1985 (specialist community public health nurse). Her training as a nurse practitioner occurred during a two year posting to the Medical Research Council’s Dunn Nutrition Unit in The Gambia, West Africa. In 2000, she established a charity, Development Direct, that facilitates the dissemination of information on Rights of the Child. She currently works as the academic primary health care nurse in the Goodfellow Unit and the School of Nursing at The University of Auckland.

	Hot Topic: Diabetes Tim Kenealy works as a GP in South Auckland, where he has been in his own practice for 25 years. He is Associate Professor of Integrated Care at the University of Auckland. His academic interests were triggered by seeing a great many people with inadequately managed and controlled diabetes. Diabetes continues to play a central role in his research, teaching and clinical practice.

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