Allister Bush MD
Dr Allister Bush is a New Zealand-European child and adolescent
psychiatrist working at Te Whare Marie, an indigenous Maori child,
adolescent and family mental health service and Pasifika CAMHS, a
Pacific Island child adolescent and family mental health service, both
based in Porirua, near Wellington, New Zealand. He is a senior
clinical lecturer at the Department of Psychological Medicine,
Wellington School of Medicine, Otago University, Wellington.
Dr. Bush is the World Psychiatric Association zonal representative for
Oceania (Zone 18) and a member of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
International Relations (CAPIR) subcommittee of the Faculty of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Royal Australian and New Zealand
College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). He is co-author with Wiremu NiaNia
and David Epston of Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health
Therapy: Tataihono- stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry, a book
documenting his partnership as a psychiatrist, with an indigenous
Maori healer, Wiremu NiaNia, since 2005.
He is a co-facilitator of the Pasifika Study Group, a biennial
workshop under the auspices of RANZCP, run in Pacific Nations
countries with Pacific nations doctors and nurses participating, with
the aim of supporting the development of mental health capacity in
Pacific nations with less access to mental health resources. He is a
mentor on the Vanuatu Psychiatry Mentoring program, which was created
at the request of Dr Jimmy Obed, a Ni-Vanuatu doctor who is the only
mental health doctor in Vanuatu. Dr. Bush’s research interests include
cross-cultural psychiatry with a particular focus on Maori and Pacific
cultural concepts and understandings relevant to mental health and
psychiatry and he is co-author, with Maori and Samoan colleagues, of a
number of articles related to these areas.
Allister Bush, MD has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
