Dr Leinani Aiono-Le Tagaloa

I am an experienced and enthusiastic Specialised Pain Medicine Physician and Anaesthetist, with a passion for training/mentoring, advocacy and research. I have served on the New Zealand National Committee of ANZCA for five years, and stood down in 2023, order to devote more of my time to the Faculty of Pain Medicine. Within the Faculty I serve on the Exams committee, having coordinated the written examination for three years now as the lead, and was appointed Vice Chair in 2023. I am also on the Specialist International Medical Graduate (SIMG) committee for ANZCA as the FPM rep (NZ).

• Celebrating women in STEMM, Annual Scientific Meeting, ANZCA, May 2023, Sydney
• Koviti 2019, To Le Amosa Preparatory School, March 2022, via Zoom
• Palliative care in Samoa, To Samoan Medical Association, November 2021, by Zoom
• Pain: Bridging the Cartesian Divide, Rheumatology Registrar Conference, March 2021
• He Waka Eke Noa, Cultural Hui, NZNC of the Australia and NZ College of Anaesthetists, February 2021
• The Road Less Travelled, Australian Pain Society/New Zealand Pain Society Joint ASM, March 2018
• Call it Courage! A Samoans Perspective on Pain, ANZCA ASM Auckland, April 2016
• Aue, Ta fia Ola! A Samoan Cultural Perspective on Pain, Genesis Oncology Trust Palliative Care Lecture Series, February 2016
• Aue, Ta fia Ola! A Samoan Cultural Perspective on Pain, 40th Annual Scientific Meeting of the New Zealand Pain Society
• Ta Fia Ola! A Samoan Cultural Perspective on Pain, Presentation to the Auckland Regional Pain Service, 2014
• Pain: The Gift That Nobody Wants; 48th Annual Porrit Lecture, Wanganui Hospital, November 21, 2013

• Co-designing whānau stories to reduce opioid use for chronic pain in Aotearoa, This project aims to co-produce a narrative-based, whānau-focused opioid tapering intervention for people with persistent non-cancer pain and evaluate its clinical implementation in tertiary pain settings., Dr Hemakumar Devan, Dr Debbie Bean, The Auckland Regional Pain Service, University of Otago, Auckland University of Technology
• LOLIPOP trial, The LOLIPOP Trial is a large, international, multicentre, double blind, randomised controlled trial that investigates whether chronic pain can be prevented by giving a local anaesthetic, lidocaine, intravenously during and after breast cancer surgery., Professor Tomás Corcoran, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Clinical Trials Network (CTN), Monash University, Royal Perth Hospital
• Investigation of Analgesic Prescribing in Chronic Pain Patients prior to Referral for Specialist Treatment, This project aims to study the prescribing of analgesics, particularly opioid analgesics, in primary care among chronic pain sufferers prior to referral for specialist care., Dr Rhys Ponton, School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland
• Obstetric anaesthesia research projects, Various research projects related to obstetric anaesthesia, including pain prediction in labor and a survey of obstetric anaesthesia practice for caesarean delivery., Dr Brendan Carvalho, Stanford University Medical Center

• Regular teaching for Anaesthetic registrars rotating through Operating theatre
• Regular teaching for TARPS pain fellow
• Advanced Pain Study Day, Nursing paper Auckland City Hospital, 2017, 2020
• Nursing Practice Paper, University of Auckland, 2017, 2020
• Essential Pain Medicine Lite for Auckland Medical School fourth year students, May 2018
• University of Auckland Nursing Pain Paper, June 2017, 2020
• Regular teaching for Anaesthetic registrars rotating through Acute Pain Service, 12/2013, 12/2014
• Clinical teaching for Anaesthesia SHO rotations at Wanganui Hospital, 02/2012, 12/2013
• Doctoring 1, 1st year medical students, 08/2010, 07/2011

• Appointed FPM representative on ANZCA SIMG (Specialist international medical graduate) committee, May 2023
• Elected founding President of Pasifika Anaesthetists in Aotearoa, August 2021
• Appointed to Clinical Quality and Safety Committee, Auckland Hospital, August 2021
• Appointed as an assessor for international medical graduates, advising Medical Council of New Zealand, March 2021
• Appointed to Communications Learning Outcomes curriculum committee for ANZCA, March 2020
• Appointed to Indigenous Health Learning Outcomes curriculum committee for ANZCA, March 2020
• Full examiner for FPMANZCA, April 2020
• Selected to NZ National Committee for ANZCA, July 2018
• Council member, New Zealand Pain Society, March 2014, September 2019
• Editor-in-Chief, Ngau Mamae (publication of NZPS), March 2016
• California Society of Anesthesiologists, Delegate from District 9, 2008, 2011
• Committee membership, Professional and Public Communications Committee for CSA, 2009, 2011
• Member, Anesthesiology Clinical Quality Improvement Committee, UCDMC, 2009, 2011
• Member, Medical Staff Wellbeing Committee, 07/2010, 12/2011
• Member, Credentials and Privileges Committee, 07/2010, 12/2011
• Member of American Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member of New Zealand Medical Society
• Member of New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists
• Member of International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

• MBChB, 1991, Otago University Medical School
• FANZCA, 2005, Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
• Obstetric Anesthesia Fellowship, 2007-2008, Stanford University Medical School
• FFPMANZCA, 2016, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

• NZMC 18273, General Registration, 1992
• Anaesthesia, Vocational Registration, 2005
• Pain Medicine, Vocational Registration, 2016

• Samoa
• New Zealand
• Date of Birth: 06/07/67

• Aue, Ta fia ola! Pain and the faaSamoa., Australasian Anaesthesia, 2021, Dr Richard Riley
• A Prospective Observational Study Evaluating the Ability of Prelabor Psychological Tests to Predict Labor Pain, Epidural Analgesic Consumption, and Maternal Satisfaction., Anesth Analg, 2014, Carvalho B, Zheng M, Aiono-Le Tagaloa L
• Evaluation of experimental pain tests to predict labour pain and epidural analgesic consumption., Br J Anaesth, 2013, Carvalho B, Zheng M, Aiono-Le Tagaloa L
• A survey of perioperative and postoperative anesthetic practices for cesarean delivery., Anesthesiol Res Pract, 2009, Aiono-Le Tagaloa L, Butwick AJ, Carvalho B
• Epidural labor analgesia in a patient receiving fondaparinux., Int J Obstet Anesth, 2009, Aiono-Le Tagaloa L, Carvalho B