Contact the College of Child & Youth Nurses

If you have general enquiries email the Secretary on secretary.ccyn@gmail.com

If you have membership enquiries email the Membership Coordinator on membership.ccyn@gmail.com

Name	Portfolio	Location	Role outside of CCYN
Donna Burkett	Co-Chair	Dunedin	Faculty Lecturer, Te Kura Tapuhi, School of Nursing, Otago Polytechnic (currently on extended leave)
Jo Clark-Fairclough	Co-Chair	Northland	Youth Designated Nurse Prescriber
Jo Heap	Treasurer	Whanganui	Clinical Nurse Educator Supporting Parents Healthy Children, COPMIA/ MICAMHAS Clinician
Ellyn Proffit	Secretary	Hamilton	Clinical Nurse Specialist & National Clinical Lead, Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA), Cancer Network Aotearoa
Michael Brenndorfer	Submissions	Auckland	Mātanga Tapuhi - Nurse Practitioner Youth Health Hub, Te Puna Manawa HealthWEST Waitemata District
Julia Laing	Membership	Hamilton	STAR Study Coordinator Waikids Research Nurse, Waikato Hospital
Kirsty Ure	Committee Member	Christchurch	Children’s Urgent and Emergency Care Christchurch Hospital
Marg Bigsby	NZNO, PNA	Christchurch	Professional Nursing Advisor NZNO
*Vacant*	Committee Member	TBC

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