PNZ Award Categories and Nominations
Each year nominations are called for Physiotherapy New Zealand Awards recognising contribution to the physiotherapy profession, PNZ and/or public health and wellbeing. Award recipients are nominated in the categories of Life Membership, Honorary Life Membership, and Honorary Fellow. These are summarised below, with full award category definitions and criteria identified in the PNZ Honours and Awards Policy.
Awards for 2023 were announced at the PNZ Annual General Meeting on 10 November. Nominations for next year will open in mid-2024.
- Life Membership: LMPNZ. Physiotherapists who are members of PNZ, past or present, awarded by PNZ Executive in recognition of their long and/or distinguished service to PNZ.
- Honorary Life Membership: MPNZ (Hon). A non-physiotherapist who has served on PNZ committees, awarded by PNZ Executive in recognition of their long and/or distinguished service to PNZ.
- Honorary Fellow: FPNZ (Hon). The highest award bestowed by PNZ. Awarded by PNZ Executive to a physiotherapist, or a non-physiotherapist, in recognition of their outstanding contribution to physiotherapy and/or to PNZ and/or in the field of public health.
Life Members and Honorary Life Members: LMPNZ and MPNZ (Hon)
Miss A Allan | Mrs EM Anderson (Enid Gotts) | Mr N Beckett |
Miss J Derbidge | Miss J Erwin | Miss J McGrath |
Miss M McLean | Mr D McPhee | Mr J Meney |
Mr S Paris (Senior) | Miss G Park | Miss ML Roberts O.B.E |
Mr W Sarelius | Miss B Tomlinson | Mr WT Woods |
Miss PA Simmers | Miss DJ Gordon | Miss B Service |
Miss MKL Sams | Mrs LC Gardiner | Miss B McLeod |
Miss M Draper | Mr M Lamont | Mr I Searle |
Mrs G Wilson | Mr B Mulligan | Mrs B Hetherington |
Mrs F Wilson | Mr MG Monaghan | Mr AG Hall (Hon) |
Dr Margaret Moon | Mrs Gail Leach (Hon) | Dr Margot Skinner |
Mrs Patricia Cunniffe (Hon) | Mrs Sheila Mann | Mr Bryan Paynter |
Dr Mark Laslett | Ms Janice Mueller | Dr Duncan Reid |
Dennis Shepherd | Matua Bill Barlow (Hon) | Whaea Pat Barlow (Hon) |
Fiona Dunford | Hilda Mulligan | Sarah Mooney |
Steven Tumilty | Brigitte Eastwood | Philippa Grimes |
Anna Mackey | Dusty Quinn | Sarah Rhodes |
Gaela Kilgour | Sarah Candy |
Fellows and Honorary Fellows: FPNZ and FPNZ (Hon)
1965 | Miss M Hartridge |
1977 | Mrs Bernice Thompson |
1977 | Mrs LC Gardiner (Hon) |
1980 | Dr Cyriax (Hon) |
1982 | Mr Don McKenzie |
1982 | Miss Jennifer Pryor |
1985 | Mr Robin McKenzie (Hon) |
1996 | Mr Brian Mulligan (Hon) |
1996 | Dr Stanley Paris (Hon) |
2003 | Dr Joan Walker (Hon) |
2013 | Dr Margot Skinner (Hon) |
2020 | Prof. Peter McNair (Hon) |
2021 | Tania Clifton-Smith (Hon) |
2022 | Dinah Bradley (Hon) |
2022 | Aseta Redican (Hon) |
2023 | Prof. Leigh Hale |
Presidents: New Zealand Trained Masseurs Association
1923 - 1927 | Ronald T McLean (Wellington) |
1927 - 1929 | Waine V Sarelius (Canterbury) |
1929 - 1931 | Gertrude M Petre (Canterbury) |
1931 - 1933 | Frances L Nurse (Auckland) |
1933 - 1934 | Gladys M Wylie (Wellington) |
1934 - 1936 | Alison R Allan (Otago) |
1936 - 1939 | Mary E McLean (Canterbury) |
1939 - 1941 | Donald McPhee (Auckland) |
1941 - 1943 | Mary I Saunders (Wellington) |
1943 - 1946 | J Noel Beckett (Otago) |
1946 - 1950 | Joan C McGrath (Wellington) |
Presidents: Physiotherapy New Zealand
1950 - 1952 | LC Gardiner (June Adams) (Canterbury) |
1952 - 1953 | Beryl Service (Otago) |
1953 - 1954 | Enid M Gotts (Otago) |
1954 - 1956 | August H Brackebush (Auckland) |
1956 - 1958 | Patricia MH Andrews (Wellington) |
1958 - 1960 | Hester Graham (Canterbury) |
1960 - 1962 | John H Pow (Otago) |
1962 - 1963 | Enid M Gotts (Otago) |
1963 - 1965 | John L Meney (South Auckland) |
1965 - 1968 | Keith N Ritson (Wellington) |
1968 - 1970 | Leonard Ring (Auckland) |
1970 - 1972 | Joan Derbidge (Canterbury) |
1972 - 1974 | Billie D McLeod (Otago) |
1974 - 1976 | Sam Thompson (Auckland) |
1976 - 1978 | Dorothy Gordon (Wellington) |
1978 - 1982 | Gay Wood (Canterbury) |
1982 - 1986 | Michael Lamont (Auckland) |
1986 - 1986 | Roslyn Ham (Wellington) |
1986 - 1990 | Erwin T Drok (Auckland) |
1990 - 1992 | Barbara Hetherington (Otago) |
1992 - 1996 | Margot Skinner (Otago) |
1996 - 1998 | Lee Gardiner (Waikato/BOP) |
1998 - 2002 | Jillian Howard (Hawkes Bay/Wellington) |
2002 - 2006 | Kirsten Davie (Wellington) |
2006 - 2010 | Jonathan Warren (Hawkes Bay) |
2010 - 2014 | Gill Stotter (Wellington) |
2014 - 2016 | Ian d'Young (Auckland) |
2016 - 2020 | Elizabeth Binns (Auckland) |
2020 - 2022 | Ben Hinchcliff (Auckland) |
2022 - 2023 | Mark Quinn (Auckland) |
2023 - | Kirsten Davie (Wellington) |
Page updated November 2023