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Dr Martin Orr
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Dr Martin Orr
Martin is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the Institute of Digital Health. He has 25 years + of experience in healthcare technology leadership, academia, innovation, strategy, and governance.
He has been involved in multiple digital health developments across all clinical specialties and has an interest in how to best provide empowering strengths-based services to isolated, confined, underserved and extreme environments from the outback to outer space.
He helped lead the development of New Zealand's first Telepsychiatry service and was a Clinical Advisor for the NZ National Depression Initiative integrated digital services platform and e-learning Journal. He was the establishment Clinic Director for the NZ National Institute of Health Innovation, and one of the first and longest-serving District Health Board Clinical Directors of Information Services.
He has a long-standing interest in cybersecurity and previously helped establish and Chair the Information Systems Security forum for the NZ Northern Region. In addition to his clinical qualifications, he holds both a Master's degree and a Doctorate of Business Administration, both of which had a technology innovation and implementation focus. His interest in Digital Health encompasses a range of current and emergent technologies and concepts including blended reality, Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital consciousness, lived experience, formulation, guardians, trauma, nightmares, mind cybersecurity and the therapeutic revision of memory.
He has a clinical interest in trauma and sleep (particularly nightmares and insomnia). He is currently completing a further Doctorate (DHSc.) at Auckland University of Technology focusing on sleep, AI and suicide prevention.
Martin is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the Institute of Digital Health. He has 25 years + of experience in healthcare technology leadership, academia, innovation, strategy, and governance.
He has been involved in multiple digital health developments across all clinical specialties and has an interest in how to best provide empowering strengths-based services to isolated, confined, underserved and extreme environments from the outback to outer space.
He helped lead the development of New Zealand's first Telepsychiatry service and was a Clinical Advisor for the NZ National Depression Initiative integrated digital services platform and e-learning Journal. He was the establishment Clinic Director for the NZ National Institute of Health Innovation, and one of the first and longest-serving District Health Board Clinical Directors of Information Services.
He has a long-standing interest in cybersecurity and previously helped establish and Chair the Information Systems Security forum for the NZ Northern Region. In addition to his clinical qualifications, he holds both a Master's degree and a Doctorate of Business Administration, both of which had a technology innovation and implementation focus. His interest in Digital Health encompasses a range of current and emergent technologies and concepts including blended reality, Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital consciousness, lived experience, formulation, guardians, trauma, nightmares, mind cybersecurity and the therapeutic revision of memory.
He has a clinical interest in trauma and sleep (particularly nightmares and insomnia). He is currently completing a further Doctorate (DHSc.) at Auckland University of Technology focusing on sleep, AI and suicide prevention.
