Meet the Team
Our Doctors
Dr Janice Jensen
Dr Janice Jensen worked at Dunedin Hospital for three years before beginning her training as a GP. She has been happily working at Aurora Health Centre since 2005. Janice has two adult children. She attained her final qualifications as a GP in 2009 when she became a Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs. In the small amount of leisure time she has, Janice enjoys movies, reading and travelling. Janice is a director of the Aurora Health Centre and looks forward to many future years of involvement with the practice.
Dr Susan Johns
Dr Susan Johns has been working in General Practice since 2006, where she enjoys the ability to work part-time and spend time with her three young children. In between caring for patients and her children, she also has a husband, a big dog, a vege garden and spends any free time hanging out with university students and young adults at Dunedin City Baptist Church. Susan is also a director of Aurora Health Centre.
Dr Aimee Rondel
Dr Aimee Rondel grew up in Dunedin and graduated from Otago Medical School in 2006. She spent several years at Dunedin hospital before joining the Aurora team in 2011. She loves the challenge and variety of general practice as well as the flexibility it gives her to further her interests in teaching and allowing time with her children. She is currently training to become a fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs.
In her spare time she enjoys swimming, reading, knitting and chasing the chickens out of her garden.
Dr Ingrid Crawford
Dr Ingrid Crawford is a Dunedin local, graduating from the University of Otago School of Medicine in 2009 after completing her clinical years in Christchurch Hospital. She worked in both Christchurch and Dunedin Hospitals, and spent time travelling and volunteering in medical clinics in Guatemala and Panama before embarking on a career in General Practice, and is excited to be part of the fantastic team at Aurora.
Outside of work, she keeps busy dancing salsa competitively, reading, travelling, and rescuing her adventurous kitten from tall trees.
Dr Liz Williams
Dr Liz Williams grew up in Wanganui and moved to Dunedin in 2003 to train at the Otago Medical School. She graduated in 2009 and spent some time in Dunedin Hospital before joining the Aurora Health Centre. Liz also works at the Sexual Health Clinic, is an accredited forensic sexual assault doctor and more recently gained an international board certification in lifestyle medicine.
She has a strong passion for lifestyle as medicine, in the prevention and treatment of chronic health conditions, and a goal to help people live happier heathier lives. She has more information about healthy lifestyle choices that you can make to your health on her website www.drlizwilliams.com
Outside of medicine, Liz enjoys spending time with her husband, two children and dogs as well as playing music, cooking, growing veggies and spending time outdoors.
Dr Lisa Kaan
A true-blue Dunedinite, Lisa was born and educated in the city and has retained her close links with her network of family and friends here. She graduated from the University of Otago School of Medicine in 2011. An elective in Germany and the UK, did not entice her away and she returned to Dunedin to work at the emergency department at the hospital for several years before seeing the light and training to be a GP. Outside of medicine, gardening, reading and travel are keen interests.
Dr Tika Broto Suharjo
Born in Indonesia, I came to NZ at 16 straight after completing high school with the goal of studying medicine at Otago University. I was fortunate to have some connection to the South Island in that my oldest sister had the good sense to marry a Cantabrian Kiwi and I wanted to be close to her and his family.
General practice attracted me because I enjoy patients' stories and the continuity of care it offered. I like the variety and the support that one gets in a smaller workplace as opposed to big hospitals.
Outside of medicine I enjoy travelling, watching movies, socialising with my friends and see myself staying in Dunedin in the future -- although my mom in Solo, a small city in Central Java, would like me home
Dr Conal Boland-Bristow
Dr Conal Boland-Bristow grew up in Napier before moving down South many winters past. After attending Otago University graduating in 2014, he has been transient through many hospitals and medical centres South Island wide, before finally settling down in Dunedin with the Aurora team in 2020.
Outside of medicine he has a love of nature, enjoying the outdoors with New Zealand's native plants and birds, as well as being a keen mountain biker, an enthusiastic painter and gardener, and caring for his two cattens
Dr Martin Handley
Dr Martin Handley grew up in the UK and graduated from the University of Bristol in 2008. He came to New Zealand in 2010 for what was planned to be an 18-month working holiday but enjoyed it so much he ended up staying permanently. He spent the next 9 years working for Southern DHB, mostly as a surgical registrar, before making the decision to change to general practice in 2019 - joining Aurora Health Centre the following year.
Martin lives locally with his wife and three young children, along with a herd of alpaca on their lifestyle block.
Our Nurses
RN Karyn Grellett
Born and raised in Dunedin, Karyn continues to enjoy all Dunedin has to offer. Trained initially as a pharmacy technician, it was the contact with the medical profession both in this role and in her personal life that led to a career in nursing. She obtained her Bachelor of Nursing from Otago Polytech and has been at Aurora Health Centre since 2011. She enjoys wound care management and infection control along with the other varied nursing duties, including a focus on health promotion and being a staunch advocate for immunisation.
Outside of work she keeps busy with her partner and their 5 children. She enjoys gardening and caring for her numerous animals on their life-style block.
RN Dianje Strang.
Dianje graduated as a nurse in 2004 from CPIT and commenced her career on the West Coast at Greymouth hospital covering areas including surgical, medical and A & E. She took time out to have a family but continued to work part time in both the hospital and in district nursing. This grew an interest in wound care and she went on to complete post graduate papers in wound assessment and wound management. She also has a strong passion for real food nutrition with a holistic focus towards lifestyle change to improved health outcomes.
Her other passions include gardening, home DIY, Saturday morning Parkrun and interior design.
RN Pip Henry
Philippa (Pip) Henry joined Aurora Health Centre in 2020. Following a career as an Ambulance Paramedic in Dunedin for 15 years, Pip completed her Bachelor of Nursing in Dunedin 2019. Coming from an emergency background has equipped her with many skills and broad knowledge, however she values the diversity of Primary Health Care and building effective relationships with families and their whanau. In 2002 Pip came to Dunedin from Kaikoura, having grown up in Marlborough and the Pacific Islands.
Married with a blended family of 5 adults and grandchildren makes for a busy life along with her involvement in the Equippers Church and interests of biking, bush walking, travel and art.
RN Holly McAuliffe
Holly McAuliffe grew up in Dunedin and went into nursing at Otago Polytech, she graduated in 2017.
Holly has a background in surgical nursing having worked in theatre for three years at Dunedin Public hospital. She felt it was time for a change and has developed a passion for community based care.
Holly started at Aurora Health Centre in August 2021 and in particular she has taken an interest in the minor procedures undertaken and also is growing her knowledge in cervical screening.
Holly is recently married. In her spare time is involved in her church. She is also keen on the outdoors, gardening, skiing and any sort of hiking adventure along with a bit of fishing on the side.
