Chief Mediacal Officer
Southern Cross Healthcare
With more than 25 years’ experience in healthcare, Erica is a breast cancer surgeon, doctor and health advocate, and co-founder of the Auckland Breast Centre and Focus Radiotherapy. Erica initially joined Southern Cross Healthcare in August 2023 as Transformation Lead for Women’s Health before taking on the fulltime Chief Medical Officer (CMO) role in February 2024. Erica also leads the Quality and Risk portfolio.
With a clinical focus to her role at Southern Cross Healthcare, Erica will also utilise her experience and extensive networks to support the business as it delivers its ‘Reimagining 2033’ 10-year strategy, specifically to continue to develop and strengthen relationships with specialists and clinicians across Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system. Erica will also work with the team to optimise best clinical practice and innovation within the network.
Erica holds advisory roles within New Zealand’s health sector, as well as serving as Trustee of Te Tāpui Atawhai Auckland City Mission. In earlier roles she was a consultant and national auditor for BreastScreen Aotearoa, an advocate for Be Accessible, and was involved in multiple breast specialist groups within Australasia and the UK.
Erica has a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from the University of Otago, is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS), and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors.