Council Members
The Council's members are drawn from across the cancer continuum — from primary preventions through treatment to palliative care.
This section provides information on the Council Member and Secretariat, the Council's terms of reference and key milestones in the development of the New Zealand Cancer Control Strategy.
Chair
Associate Professor Christopher Atkinson is an oncologist at the Canterbury District Health Board, where he was Head of Radiation Oncology (1984 – 2004) and Chair of the Oncology Service (1992 – 2004). He is Medical Director and a past President of the Cancer Society of New Zealand. He is also a former President of the New Zealand Society for Oncology. He was the inaugural President of TROG, an Australasian clinical trials group, and the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Radiation Oncology of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. He is the current Chair of Psycho-Oncology New Zealand and has been Associate Professor of Medicine at the Christchurch School of Medicine since 2000. Professor Atkinson has been closely involved in developing a cancer control strategy for New Zealand, holding the positions of chair and deputy chair of many of the committees, taskforces and working parties that developed the current Cancer Control Strategy.
Council Members
- Ms Shelley Campbell, Former Chief Executive Waikato PHO
- Professor Brett Delahunt, HoD Wellington School of Medicine & Health Sciences – Dept of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
- Professor Mike Findlay, Professor of Oncology and Director of Cancer Trials New Zealand
- Professor Frank Frizelle, HoD Academic Dept of Surgery and Professor University of Canterbury, Colorectal Surgeon Canterbury DHB
- Dr Kate Grundy, Palliative Medicine Physician and Clinical Director Christchurch Hospital
- Mr Dalton Kelly, Chief Executive Cancer Society of NZ
- Professor David Lamb, Consultant Radiation Oncologist
- Dr Scott McFarlane, Auckland DHB Starship Children's Hospital
- Mrs Catherine Smith, Clinical Nurse Specialist Canterbury DHB
- Dr John Waldon, Researcher Massey University School of Maori Studies
