Robyn Carr, RN
System Operator
Robyn spent the first two thirds of her professional career working in cardio-thoracic theatres in two of New Zealand's major cities. In her latter theatre years she was heavily involved in the country's (then) fledgling heart transplant programme. For the final decade of her hospital involvement she switched from clinical work to the start-up phase of the computer becoming a major customer service support feature of measuring and supplementing the work of clinicians. It was during this phase that she became involved with the start-up of the Nursing Informatics New Zealand. Representing that organisation for a long period in the international arena she held several roles with IMIA-NI - the nursing sector of the Internal Medical Informatics Association. For three years she was the World Chair of IMIA-NI. Robyn is a founding Fellow of IAHSI (International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics) and FHiNZ (Fellow of Health Informatics New Zealand).
Katherine Davies
Trustee
& Administrative Support
Katherine (Swinfen Eady) is an established professional artist and military historian. Having previously been a Trustee of the Swinfen Charitable Trust, she has now re-joined us as both a Trustee and in an administrative support role (unpaid) for the charity.
Loveday Ellis, RN
System Operator
Loveday Ellis joined Swinfen Telemedicine as a volunteer Systems Operator in the Autumn of 2015. She trained as a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital in London. She also worked at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, The Wellington Hospital, Northwick Park Hospital and St Mary's Hospital, where she met her husband Brian, Professor Ellis was an eminent Urologist and long-time Consultant for the Trust. She later worked at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey and finally as a Practice Nurse in a GP Surgery in Ottershaw.
Sankalpa Ghose
Telemedicine System Architect
Sankalpa is a painter & engineer, & has started companies in telemedicine & spatial computing, as well as a nonprofit dedicated to animal welfare. He has worked & traveled across seven continents & lives between the US & India.
Georgina Liley
Trustee & Administrative Support
Georgina has been involved with the Trust since its inception and was a speaker at the 4th International Conference on Successes and Failures in Telehealth, Brisbane, 2004. She lives in Western Australia and works in education and library administration. Georgina has returned to the Trust in an administrative support role (unpaid), and as a Trustee.
Nibedita Panda
Platform Engineer
Nibedita is a full stack developer and IT enthusiast based out of Odisha. She is dedicated to building technology that has an impact on people’s lives by making real-world problems simpler to solve. Nibedita is an active contributor to open source projects and enjoys experimenting with new technologies and techniques, including machine learning and areas involving physics and mathematics.
Lynda Simonds, RN
System Operator
Lynda commenced her nursing education in the NHS in 1976. She Commissioned into the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC) in 1982. Deployments and postings to austere overseas environments allowed Lynda the opportunity to witness, and sometimes be involved with, local health care in remote areas. Whilst serving in Nepal in the late 1990's she assisted the Swinfen Charitable Trust in setting up and maintaining the equipment required to send referrals from remote clinics. Lynda retired from the Army in 2012, remaining on the Nurse Register and is still practicing in a clinical manager role. She became a volunteer systems operator for Swinfen Telemedicine in 2017 and has recently been heavily involved with the deployment of Covid strategies within the UK.
Dr Paul Stevens, MD
System Operator
MBChB; Diploma Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Fellow of the New Zealand College of GPs.
Paul is a retired GP who spent 42 years in a family general practice in Cambridge, New Zealand. He founded the Cambridge Medical Centre. Paul is married to Rosslyn and they have 3 sons. Paul is interested in tennis, golf, biking and kite boarding, and is enjoying his retirement, but says he misses the one to one patient contact he had as a practising GP. Paul graduated in 1974. He thoroughly enjoyed General Practice and valued the patient relationship, especially being privileged to know the whole family, in many cases going back four generations.