Our Team
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Lois Cameron
Manager
Lois joined the Deacon Trust as Manager in January 2024. She started off in life as an Accountant before moving into corporate Human Resources roles. These included working in the science, agriculture and more recently aviation sectors. She has worked for over 30 years at a senior leadership level and her commercial experience is combined with a passion for people. As an HR professional, she was an advocate for mental health and wellbeing programmes in the workplace. Her role within Deacon Trust is to serve the vision of the organisation by ensuring that the necessary systems and support structures are in place.
As the Manager for HeartSpace, there is a real opportunity to walk alongside individuals, teams, communities, and churches as they grow in the knowledge and practice of mental health support for people in distress.
Lois is married to Adrian and has two adult stepchildren and two grandchildren.
Dr Jeremy Baker
Clinical Director
Jeremy is the Clinical Director of Deacon Trust, and of the HeartSpace and HeadSpace programmes.
He graduated in medicine from Otago University in 1981. He has been a general practitioner with a special interest in mental health since that time. He has worked extensively in building projects to improve mental health in primary and community care, including with Pegasus Health PHO, and with churches throughout New Zealand. He is also a senior lecturer at Otago University (Christchurch Medical School), and a medical educator for the Royal NZ College of GPs.
Jeremy has a fellowship from the Royal NZ College of General Practitioners, a Masters degree in theology/psychology from Laidlaw College, Auckland, and is currently undertaking doctoral studies with the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is focusing on the effects of psychological trauma in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes, and the churches response to this.
He is married to Yvie Ruth and has four children and five grandchildren.