Dr Alwyn D’Souza
Alwyn is a consultant haematologist at Capital & Coast District Health Board.
He graduated from Otago School of medicine in 1993. He did the majority of his post-graduate training in Wellington, before completing his training in Melbourne at the Royal Melbourne hospital and Peter MacCallum cancer centre.
He has worked at Wellington hospital as a consultant since 2006. His special areas of interest are haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (“bone marrow transplantation”), and lymphomas. He also has an interest in medical education and is the current chair of the NZ Joint training committee in haematology.
Baubre Murray
Baubre is a Chartered Accountant with an extensive background in public practice, audit, and consulting.
She ran her own accounting practice in Wellington for 15 years. Baubre helped set up the Crohns and Colitis NZ Charitable Trust in 2010 to support patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Baubre now works as a consultant, independent director, and trustee and she has extensive not for profit governance experience particularly in the not for profit, charity, and sporting sectors.
Dr Travis Perera
Travis Perera is a Haematologist and Bone Marrow Transplant Physician at the Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre. After completing training in New Zealand in 2013, he undertook a two-year transplant fellowship at The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), focussing on biomarkers in graft versus host disease and post-transplant relapse prevention. He then stayed on as a Consultant at RMH and The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, before returning home to Wellington in 2018, where he now leads the BMT and Acute Leukaemia disease groups. He is actively involved in clinical research and is current chair of the NZ Haematology Research group, principal investigator for a number of clinical trials, and the New Zealand representative on the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma group (ALLG) Scientific Advisory Committee.He is passionate about improving drug access for New Zealanders and sits on the ALLG NZ Medicines Access Committee, which has this as its primary aim.
Joanna Delahunty
Joanna is currently a Clinical Nurse Specialist cancer nurse coordinator at Capital & Coast District Health Board. She has worked in the Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre (WBCC) in various nursing roles for 31 years. These include 10 years in the inpatient ward and 17 years as coordinator of the outpatient unit. She also helped establish the satellite chemotherapy service at Kenepuru Hospital.
Joanna comes from The SAM Trust which amalgamated with the Florence Peterson Trust to form the LifeBlood Trust in 2020. She was an inaugural trustee of The SAM Trust which was established in 2005 to provide educational and professional development assistance for WBCC nurses to improve patient care, and to provide facilities not supplied by the hospital to benefit WBCC patients.
Catherine Wood
Catherine currently works full time as a bone marrow transplant Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in the Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre at Capital and Coast District Health Board.
She has been in this role for approximately 18 years. For 14 of those years, she worked part time in the CNS role and part time as the first Research Nurse for the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research. Catherine completed a Master of Health Sciences in 2012 and is currently studying to become a Registered Nurse Prescriber.