The pedigree of our Trainers is second to none. The strict vetting process ensures that only the most experienced and knowledgeable people can join our Team, those with real-world experiences and an ability to connect with students make it into the PracMed NZ family.
Most of our Trainers come from a military background with operational service, where decision making in a high-threat environment under enormous amounts of pressure has developed their understanding of what can make the critical difference within the first moments of an incident transpiring. They are relatable, make the courses interesting and fun and deliver in a light-hearted manner which gets the seriousness of the topic across in an enjoyable way.
Our Trainers recognise their experiences are unique, and that by delivering impactful training, that they can help. build more responders and not witnesses.
Managing Director
Former NZDF Recon Operator and Patrol Commander with over a decade of service, including two deployments to Afghanistan, Solomon Islands peacekeeping, and humanitarian and disaster relief operations in Indonesia following the 2004 tsunami. After service, Simon spent nearly five years in private contracting across Asia Pacific and the Middle East as a PSD Team Medic and Site Security Manager, setting up medical clinics in austere environments where the nearest hospital was a long way away.
He founded PracMed NZ because the standard of first aid training in New Zealand wasn’t good enough. The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. He wasn’t prepared to walk past it.
Former action guy. Self-described meatball medic.
General Manager
Former Australian weightlifter, 2018 Commonwealth Games athlete and national record holder. Before PracMed, Steph spent years in finance and operations across multinational oil and gas organisations in remote and austere environments across the Indo-Pacific. She built PracMed NZ from an idea into a nationally recognised, NZQA Category 1 private training establishment.
Medical Director
“Dr Inia Raumati (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Atiawa, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a senior emergency doctor at Auckland City Hospital.
He has a special interest in pre-hospital and trauma medicine, and was previously deployed in Iraq as a medical officer with the New Zealand Defence Force.
Dr Raumati provides clinical oversight and medical governance for PracMed NZ’s training programmes, ensuring our content meets the highest evidence-based standards.
Away from medicine, Inia was the first person in the world to complete a self-supported multi-stage ultramarathon on every continent in one year. A good bloke to have in your corner.
BPhty, MBChB, PGDip Sports Medicine (Dist.), PGCertCPU
Training Team Leader, H.E.A.T
Ed is a retired US Army Special Forces Medical Sergeant with seven deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. His career shaped the training of Special Forces Medics, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers and Naval Corpsmen in Tactical Combat Casualty Care and Prolonged Field Care. Now based in New Zealand, Ed leads PracMed’s Hostile Environment and Active Threat programme and is responsible for training and moderating the wider instructor team nationally, ensuring the standard is upheld in every room, every course, every time.
Business Development Manager
Heather made the move from food technology into health, safety and wellbeing because she wanted her work to mean something. She owns the client relationship at PracMed, building genuine connections with the organisations we work with. Currently studying health coaching, that desire to genuinely help people comes through in everything she does.
Compliance Team Lead
A Registered Nurse by background, Lyn keeps PracMed’s certificates and NZQA records of learning processed accurately and at speed — she’s the reason our turnaround times are some of the fastest in the country.
Support Team Lead
With a background in support work, Eden understands what good care looks like. She’s the first point of contact for clients and the person who makes sure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.