Hinemoa elder biography for kids

Dr Hinemoa Elder is of Ngāti Kurī, Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi descent. 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 15 years. Hinemoa is a board member of the RANZCP Foundation. She currently works at Haumaru Ōrite: Mother-baby and Child and Family Units Starship Children’s Hospital.

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In addition to her medical qualifications she has a PhD (Massey University, 2012) that developed theory and a novel recovery approach grounded in Te Ao Māori, for Māori with traumatic brain injury, their whānau, extended families and professionals which is now being used in community rehabilitation services. Dr Elder was a recipient of the Eru Pomare Post-Doctoral Fellow, Health Research Council of New Zealand 2014–2018.

She continues to work clinically as a neuropsychiatrist with those who have experienced traumatic brain injury and their whānau. 

Hinemoa is a previous Professor