Dr Rachelle Love

Dr Rachelle Love is of Ngāpuhi and Te Arawa descent. An otolaryngology, head and neck surgeon in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Dr Love has recently been appointed by the Minister of Health to the Medical Council. Within the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), she is a member of the Māori Health Advisory Group, the National Board, and is a cultural advisor to the ORL Training Board.  She is on the Specialist Council for the New Zealand Medical Association, the executive of the NZ branch of the Australasian Sleep Association, Urutā National Māori Pandemic Group and is a Trustee of the Hearing Research Foundation. She is a lecturer for the Māori and Indigenous Health Institute at the University of Otago.

Dr Love’s research interests are in Māori health, particularly cultural competency and cultural safety in surgical education, and in sleep surgery, where she is part of a multinational multidisciplinary research group.