Ineke Meredith was born in New Zealand to parents of mixed-Samoan heritage. She spent her childhood in Samoa but moved to New Zealand after winning a scholarship to study medicine. She graduated from the Otago Medical School in 2003 and became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2014. In 2015, she commenced her subspecialty training in breast cancer and reconstruction. Now a General Surgeon with a subspecialty interest in breast cancer and breast reconstruction

Ineke is working and living between New Zealand and Paris. She has published research articles in international peer-reviewed medical journals on breast cancer and reconstruction, cancer rates among Pacific peoples in New Zealand, and has participated in international collaboratives on cancer rates in diaspora. Ineke started to write patient stories in her early consultancy, both as a testament to patients and as catharsis after difficult days on call.

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