Excellence in CARE • SEPTEMBER 2018 .13 Keynote Presenter Veronique Boscart Dr Veronique Boscart has extensive nursing experience, including working as a clinician, educator, manager and researcher in an international setting. Her research interests range from the substantive area of evidence-based care in gerontology and best practices in research methods with older adults, to the development of gerontological education for healthcare professionals and care delivery models in residential and aged care settings. She has published over sixty peer-reviewed manuscripts and is the lead author on the first Canadian edition of Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging (2011, revised 2018). Veronique is chair holder of the CIHR/ Schlegel Industrial Research Chair for Colleges in Senior Care funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)/ Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). She is Principal Investigator on several grants, and has received funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development; Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario; and Canadian Frailty Network. Conference Presenters Veronique is an interRAI Fellow and has extensive knowledge in training and implementing interRAI tools in various settings, including the RAI-MDS 2.0 in long-term care. She is the interRAI nursing lead in Canada and has presented internation- ally on implementation of interRAI assessment tools. She also leads the Canadian component of an international study on testing the interRAI Acute Care Screener. Veronique is also the past President of the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association, and holds Board of Director positions for the Schlegel–University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging, and the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly. She is a Section Editor for the Canadian Journal on Aging. She is a past board member at Canadian Association of Gerontology and the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. Dr Boscart is also an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, McMaster University, and an Adjunct Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Canada. Keep up to date with everything going on at the conference at www.conference.nzaca.org.nz Master of Ceremonies Kerre McIvor Kerre hosts a nightly talkback show on 1ZB and has her own Kerre’s Café radio show on a Sunday morning. Kerre is very funny and down to earth, and is an excellent, entertaining speaker, debater and MC. Kerre has firmly established herself as one of New Zealand’s top MCs and after-dinner speakers. She is able to bring professionalism and humour to any event and knows how to ensure that the balance is always right. She is no stranger to television, either: she has appeared in Intrepid Journeys on TV1, in which she went to India/ Nepal and Cambodia. She has appeared on Fair Go (presenter, not culprit), Heartland, Ready Steady Cook, Dream Jobs and Together Again, and she has hosted a number of high-impact documentaries. On the debating scene, Kerre is dynamite, cutting up the opposition with her rapier-like wit and opinions on all things. On the corporate circuit, Kerre is a wonderful MC who can keep audiences very much on their toes, but can also bring the dignity that special occasions demand. Kerre started her media career in 1982 as a journalist with Radio New Zealand, spending three years working throughout the provinces. She was a popular co-presenter of the Heartland Series with Gary McCormick and TV3’s Destination Planet Earth.