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Clinical Exercise Physiology New Zealand (CEPNZ) was established in 2012 to advocate for and promote the emerging Allied Health Workforce of Clinical Exercise Physiology (CEP) in New Zealand. A key outcome of CEPNZ is to establish a nationally recognised CEP Accreditation pathway that also has international portability.
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CEPNZ has a governance group (the CEPNZ Board) that is working to establish a professional community of like thinking Clinical Exercise Physiologists, or other interested parties, that have a vested interest in growing this discipline area. Information on this site will be changing at pace so bookmark this URL and refer to it often.
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\n\nDefining Clinical Exercise Physiology
\n\nA clinical exercise physiologist can be defined as an individual who specialises in the delivery of exercise, lifestyle and behavioural modification programmes for the prevention, management and rehabilitation of chronic conditions and diseases, and injuries.
\n\nA clinical exercise physiologist provides individualised and specialised exercise and lifestyle education for clients across a wide spectrum of health, from the apparently healthy to those with diagnosed conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease, or chronic pain or injury.
\n\tThe clinical exercise physiologist plays an important role in a multi-disciplinary team by providing specialised exercise testing, exercise programming and client education (within their professional scope of practice) in conjunction with other medical and allied health professionals.
\n\tIn the New Zealand context there is under the Treaty of Waitangi a commitment to Maori Health, and Pacific Health and the multi-cultural NZ population.
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Our Belief
\n\nWe as a board and members of the society believe that the future of Clinical Exercise Physiology in New Zealand is best served with an alignment to the Allied Health Workforce, and will work to position the profession as such. We also believe that our primary driver is to deliver services to New Zealanders first (and in particular with our commitments under the Treaty of Waitangi) and to then work towards portability internationally.
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\n\nThe Start Point
\n\nCEPNZ set out to achieve the following:
\n\nAchieve critical mass by establishing a foundation membership (completed 2013) and to then establish a permanant membership structure (completed January 2015).
\n\tEstablish a CEP Accreditation pathway that is recognised by stakeholders as the industry standard by early 2015.
\n\tShowcase clinical physiology in New Zealand to inform our Allied Health, Nursing, and medical workforce colleagues of our role. This will include:
\n\t- Research
\n\n- Practitioner profiles
\n\n- On-going Professional development opportunities
\n\nAdvocate for the discipline with stakeholders and consumers
\n\tKeeping members informed though the CEPNZ website
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\n\nThe CEPNZ Board
\n\nThe Current Board Members are (* are foundation board members, see CEPNZ Board tab for bio's):
\n\nStephen Burden (Wintec) - Chair
\n\nShohn Wormgoor (UCOL) - Treasurer/Secretary
\n\nJim Stinear* (University of Auckland)
\n\nLynette Hodges (Massey University)
\n\nStacey Reading (University of Auckland)
\n\nSaskia van den Ende (ExerScience Clinic)
\n\nHannah Lowe (The Centre For Health
\n\nMatthew Wood (Auckland University of Technology)
\n\nEleanor Nattrass (ExerScience Clinic)
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