Meet the Register Team

 

Mary-Ann Hamilton

Graduating in 1995 I experienced 4 years nursing in the Oncology, Haematology and Palliative Care inpatient setting and was seconded to an Oncology project team.   Following completion of the project I furthered my nursing experience in the Gynaecology inpatient ward where for a period I acted as Clinical Nurse Leader until leave to start my family.   My own cancer experience in 2001 strengthened my resolve to support initiatives with a cancer care focus.  On return to health I undertook several years of nursing practice at the Breast Care Centre and continued to enjoy working in the women's health field.  In 2008 I accepted the role of coordinating the Waikato Breast Care Register.

The register has so much potential to provide valuable and meaningful information to influence patient care and outcomes.   It covers the whole spectrum of service users and service providers and I believe it is a most valuable tool for the community.  It is a privilege to be a part of this project and I look forward to seeing the register provide key insights and support positive health gains in the near future for the women of the Waikato, New Zealand and those affected by the cancer experience.

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Carol Munt

Carol has spent 15 of the last 22 years working in the area of breast cancer research, having previously worked at the Institute of Cancer Rsearch in the UK.   She joined the WBCR team in April 2008 and inbetween times has worked as a library assistant in both tertiary and public settings and has also studied natural therapies.   Carol's main role within the register team is to identify cases that are elegible for inclusion on the register and to gather information for entry onto the register's database.  She also assists with data queries and performs general administrative tasks.

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Shelley Cavanagh

Shelley is a Registered Nurse with a special interest in women's health.   She joined the WBCT in January 2007 as Research Nurse/Data Support.  She has had experience working in the Breast Care Centre and Surgical Outpatients Department clinics.   Previously to this she worked as a Staff Nurse in the Gynaecology inpatient ward for five years.   Shelley currently coordinates several international and local clinical trials, as well as supporting the Waikato Breast Care Register with data collection entry and consent.

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Paula Palmer

Paula is a registered nurse working at Braemar Hospital as a ward nurse and for Dr Ian Campbell and Dr Linda Gilbert as the practice/breast care nurse at St Anne Breastcare in Hamilton.  She assists in data support for the Waikato Breast Care Register and RACS database primarily managing the private practice data and long term follow up data entry.   Paula trained as a nurse after having children and has been nursing since 2004.

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