About Pride in Health

Chairperson, Founding Member

MBChB, MEntr, BPhty

Dr Chuang is a registrar working in ED, Urgent Care and Paediatrics who is passionate about initiating conversations, accelerating change and facilitating an inclusive healthcare model for disadvantaged groups like our LGBTQIA+ patients. He also welcomed a son with his wife in 2021, which has sparked an interest in them to work at ensuring an inclusive parental journey and changing the heteronormative language around childbirth.

With a background in business and a Masters of Entrepreneurship, Dr Chuang enjoys the challenges of seeing new projects start from the ground up. He is excited to work with the other members of this group to improve the quality of healthcare provided to our LGBTQIA+ population.

Vice-Chairperson, Founding Member

MBChB, FNZCSRH, Member of RNZCGP, BSC, PGDipObstMedGyn

Dr Gregory is a queer, non-binary doctor working in general practice in Auckland. They have a background in sexual and reproductive health and gender-affirming healthcare. Their goal is a general up-skilling of healthcare practitioners (including themselves) to provide safe and informed-consent-based healthcare to people of diverse genders and sexualities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Eva is also a member of PATHA's Education Committee.

Founding Member

MBChB, FRNZCGP, PGCert (Perinatal Mental Health)

Dr Carroll is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago, Wellington, a youth health GP and the Vice President of PATHA (Professional Association of Transgender Health Aotearoa).

Rona’s main research, teaching and clinical interests are in transgender healthcare, particularly within primary care. Rona is part of a unique gender affirming healthcare (GAHC) team at a student health service where she initiates gender affirming hormone therapy. Rona enjoys supporting other GPs across Aotearoa to provide GAHC, through education, creating resources and by leading local and national transgender health peer support groups for health professionals. Rona also has an interest in all aspects of sexual and reproductive healthcare, particularly HIV PrEP and abortion care.

Secretary, Founding Member

MBChB, FRNZCGP

Dr Rua is a GP with special interest in takatāpui health. He is of Māori, Cook Island and Pākehā descent but has always called Aotearoa home. During his formative years at The University of Auckland he was introduced to and later inducted into the queer dance group Vogue who went on to win the New Zealand National Dance Championships. This was his first experience with the beautiful variety of people that make up our rainbow community and certainly held his attention throughout his professional career.

Upon graduating he has since spent his years training in his chosen areas of sports medicine, LGBTQIA+ health and reducing inequalities for Māori. He is passionate about targeting these groups as they have all played important parts in his own development, and he also understands how important a positive, nurturing, safe and accepting environment can be in life.

Treasurer, Founding Member

BSc, MDCM

Dr Canner is a Wellington GP who identifies as queer and non-binary. They have a special interest in youth health, and work for a Youth One Stop Shop in central Wellington. Dr Canner also has a special interest in LGBTQ+ health, and especially in providing gender-affirming healthcare. They teach medical students and are particularly invested in meeting the need for more education at the undergraduate level to enable future doctors to have the skills they need to provide culturally sensitive care to LGBTQ+ patients.

Dr Canner has a unique knowledge of the need for better quality of care as well as straightforward referral pathways for gender-diverse patients as they have experienced the challenges and barriers from “both sides of the stethoscope”. They are very excited to be involved in this new initiative to provide education and skills to doctors and medical students, in order to improve the quality of care they provide to LGBTQ+ patients.