Mel is a Sport and Exercise Physician, mother of two and lover of all Hawke's Bay has to offer: sun, food, wine, tennis and outdoor adventures.
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She graduated from Medicine at Otago University and came to the Hawke's Bay as a Junior Doctor. Mel has worked in the field of Sports Medicine since 2011. She started her advanced training in Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2014, spending two years in Wellington and two years in Melbourne. Mel finished her training with a fellowship at High Performance Sport NZ (HPSNZ), where she worked solely with elite athletes.
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Mel is the team Doctor for the Silver Fern's and is the Netball New Zealand Medical Director. She has also worked with women's football, AFL and a variety of endurance and team sports, at the recreational, club and elite level. She was a member of the health team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2024 Olympic Games.
Dr Melinda Parnell
SPORT AND EXERCISE PHYSICIAN
MB ChB, PhD, PG Dip (Sports Med), FACSEP
EDUCATION
2018: Fellow of the Australasian College of
Sport and Exercise Physicians (FACSEP)
2015: PG Diploma (Sports Medicine), University of Auckland
2007: MB ChB, University of Otago 2007
2002: PhD (Medicine), Monash University
1998: BSc (Honours), Monash University
1997: B App Sc (Human Movement), Deakin University
SPECIALTIES
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Sports Injury in Children and Adolescents
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Sporting Injury
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Women in Sport
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Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport
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Elite Athletes
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Knee Osteoarthritis
Dr Alyse Cameron
SPORT AND EXERCISE PHYSICIAN
MB ChB, B Health Sci (PHTY), FACSEP
Originally from the Wairarapa, Alyse relocated to Auckland to study Physiotherapy, completing a Bachelor of Health Science (Physiotherapy) at Auckland University of Technology. With a strong interest in musculoskeletal health, she went on to pursue a medical degree at the University of Auckland, graduating with an MBChB in 2013.
Alyse has worked in Sports Medicine since 2016 and completed her advanced specialist training in Sports and Exercise Medicine in 2022. Prior to commencing specialist training, she gained broad clinical experience working within the Wellington public hospital system, with rotations across Orthopaedics, Trauma, and General Medicine.
She has extensive experience supporting high-performance and elite sporting environments. Alyse is currently the team doctor for the Black Ferns Rugby Team and provides specialist sports medicine oversight for the All Blacks Sevens and Black Ferns Sevens teams. Her previous roles include working with the New Zealand Football Ferns during their 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup campaign in France, and she remains actively involved in football medicine as a member of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Medical Advisory Group, contributing to the improvement of medical care across Pacific football tournaments.
In 2021, Alyse moved to Hawke’s Bay from Wellington with her husband and young family and has embraced the Bay lifestyle. She is passionate about delivering high-quality Sports and Exercise Medicine care to people of all ages and abilities, from elite athletes to recreational and weekend athletes.