Dr Emma Wehipeihana (Espiner) (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) is a writer, political commentator and surgical registrar at Middlemore Hospital. She was the Voyager Opinion Writer of the Year 2020 and her podcast Getting Better- A Year in the Life of a Maori Medical Student won Voyager Best Narrative Podcast of the year in 2021. Emma’s writing has been published in media outlets, academic and literary journals. Her debut memoir is There’s a Cure for This.