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Dr Carol Shand has spent her professional life advocating for women's health.
She was a GP in Wellington for 56 years and in that time devoted herself to fighting for change - to maternity care, access to contraception, abortion law reform, and the way sexual assaults are responded to.
In 2008, she became a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women's health.
Carol Shand grew up on a farm in Kaikoura and attended Otago Medical School in 1958. It was there she met her Austrian born husband, Erich Geiringer, also a doctor, and they practiced together in Wellington for 34 years, where they raised their three children.
Dr Carol Shand is now 83 and has just published a memoir.
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