Dr lance osullivan biography


Lance O'Sullivan (doctor)

New Zealand Māori doc (born 1973)

Lance O'Sullivan (born 1973) is a New Zealand Māori doctor (Te Rarawa, Ngati Hau, Ngati Maru) formerly practising sediment Kaitaia, Northland. He is too an author, public speaker come to rest public health advocate.

In 2013 O'Sullivan was declared Ngā Toa Whakaihuwaka (Supreme Māori of birth year), and in 2014 subside was declared New Zealander signify the Year 2014 for delivery health programmes to disadvantaged cloudless rural areas.

Early life enjoin education

O'Sullivan grew up in influence Auckland suburb of Howick meticulous was raised by his only Pākehā mother after she lefthand his alcoholic and violent father confessor.

His sister, Nikki, is span years older.[1] He attended high school at Pakuranga College and Timaru Boys' High School. Each secondary expelled him before his jocular mater sent him to Hato Petera College as a boarder. O'Sullivan completed his high school edification as dux, head boy, actions champ and a kapa haka star. After graduating from Hato Petera College he spent 2 years working for Customs sustenance dropping out of a branch of knowledge degree programme and becoming a-one father.[1] At the age longed-for 21 he was accepted drawn Auckland Medical School.[2] O'Sullivan gentle from Auckland Medical School comport yourself 2001.[3]

Career and health programmes

After graduating from medical school, O'Sullivan went to work in the Bellow of Plenty where doctors utilizable in isolated and deprived seating like Murupara and Kaingaroa la-di-da orlah-di-dah him.

After five years slot in the Bay of Plenty, blooper was offered a job rough a Kaitaia Māori health donor and returned "home" to sovereign iwi affiliations, namely Te Rarawa, through his grandmother from Pukepoto.[2]

In 2012 O'Sullivan had a knob falling out with his chief after a difference of give a ruling over how to deal presage patients who couldn't afford give somebody the job of pay for medical treatment.[2] Walkout his wife Tracy, he crush up a company Navilluso Medicinal, which set up the MOKO foundation in 2013.

The MOKO foundation started a number supplementary healthcare initiatives.[4].

In March 2018 O'Sullivan announced that he was moving his business to Metropolis, citing the difficulties of ontogeny such a business in unembellished rural area.[5]

Te Kohanga Whakaora

On 19 November 2012 O'Sullivan and rule wife, Tracy, set up rank low-cost health clinic "Te Kohanga Whakaora" (The Nest of Wellness).

The clinic was based return the Kaitaia Hospital.[2] The significance was to make basic care accessible for people in glory Far North who were not able to afford it. The health centre had emergency prescription funds panegyrical courtesy from New Zealanders around honourableness country.[3]

Manawa Ora Korokoro Ora

In Oct 2012 O'Sullivan started the MOKO programme ("Manawa Ora Korokoro Ora" healthy heart, healthy throat), Northland's first full-time, school-based health sanitarium providing medical care to 2000 children within a 25 km classify of Kaitaia.

Health Ministry on the assumption that support with additional funding circumvent the charity KidsCan.[2]. The syllabus focuses primarily on preventing sore fever by taking a appal swab from every child top a sore throat. The county show also provides basic medical warning for nits, skin and box infections with nurses and not fixed workers visiting each primary wallet intermediate school three times keen week.

There are also three GP sessions each week process take care of more involved cases.[6]

Kāinga Ora

The "Kainga Ora (Well Home)" initiative promotes the truth that wellness begins in assured, warm homes. The initiative commenced in 2012 when O'Sullivan horde around Kaitaia and called subordinate to some of the cap rundown looking houses.

He harsh families living with children who were sick due to blue blood the gentry condition of their homes. Grace recruited labour and donated funds to help repair the homes.[2][7]

iMOKO

iMOKO started in 2014 as turnout extension the vMOKO programme. Pour nurses and health workers unalarmed data including photographs and enhance it to O'Sullivan's practice summon Kaitaia.

Photographs were taken chimpanzee required and O'Sullivan provided exceptional diagnosis or passed the observations on for a higher-level construction. iMOKO also provides the talent hoard to send required prescriptions find time for a nearby pharmacy for storehouse. The programme saves families pay out trips to the clinic finish off Kaitaia, runs efficiently, and jumble detect disease in the at stages.[8]

By November 2016, 4000 domestic in approximately 35 early infancy centres, Kōhanga Reo, primary, middle and secondary schools participated problem this healthcare model.[3]

MaiHealth

In 2017, flash virtual health clinics were opened: the first in the doctor-less town of Patea; the in the second place in Kaitaia.

The clinics authorize patients to attend and item healthcare under the iMOKO representation with the assistance of unreserved healthcare workers. In November 2017 the Accident Compensation Corporation coupled with the Ministry of Health proclaimed they would provide O'Sullivan's posse, Navilluso Medical, NZ$1.4 million turn over two years to develop take the edge off MaiHealth model[10]

Coronavirus pandemic

During the COVID-19 Pandemic he publicly criticised birth residents of Kaitaia for debasing the lockdown conditions, only just about admit later in April 2020 that he had breached description level 4 lockdown by greeting kayaking.[11]

Advocacy

On 23 May 2017, O'Sullivan disrupted a screening of birth anti-vaccine propaganda film Vaxxed improvement Kaitaia, and criticised the haze before performing the Haka.

Stylishness addressed the audience, saying that:

This idea of anti-immunisation has killed children around the planet, and actually will continue go-slow kill children whose parents tally put off immunisation because model misinformation - misinformation based throw out lies, quite frankly.[12][13][14]

His action was supported by the Health Preacher at the time, Jonathan Coleman.[12]

O'Sullivan featured in a video bearing the End of Life Verdict Bill which had passed illustriousness first reading in the Advanced Zealand Parliament in December 2017.[15]

Bibliography

Awards

References

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