Dr Hinemoa Elder
Dr Hinemoa Elder is of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi descent. She is a mother of two adult children. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and has been a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist for more than 10 years working in youth forensic and neuropsychiatry as well as the Mother Baby and Acute inpatient units at Starship Children’s Hospital Auckland. Dr Elder is an advocate for use of Te Reo Māori, the Māori language.
Hinemoa is the Māori Strategic Leader for the Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) for the Ageing Brain based at University of Auckland. She continues to be involved in research regarding traumatic brain injury, stroke and dementia.
She has a PhD (Massey University, 2012) and NZ Health Research Council Eru Pomare Post-Doctoral Fellowship that developed theory and a novel recovery approach grounded in Te Ao Māori, for Māori with traumatic brain injury, a condition recognized locally and internationally as over-represented in incarcerated populations. These resources are now being used in community rehabilitation services.
Dr Elder is a deputy psychiatrist member of the NZ Mental Health Review Tribunal and a Specialist Assessor under the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003. Dr Elder is a Trustee and Director of Emerge Aotearoa, a national NGO. She is also the Chair of Waiheke Artworks Theatre Trust Board.
Hinemoa received the NZ Order of Merit for services to Māori and Psychiatry in 2019.
Dr Elder has been appointed to the Prime Minister’s Science Advisor’s Cannabis Panel in 2019 for the referendum in 2020.
Dr Elder travelled to Antarctica in late 2019 as part of Homeward Bound a global leadership programme for women in science.
Check out Hinemoa’s reel and if you wish to book her, please call Eve on 021 123 1963 or email eve@mintvoices.co.nz