Rose Rehabilitation Clinics contacts

Rose Rehabilitation Clinics

St George's Medical Centre
Leinster Chambers, Level One
249 Papanui Rd, Merivale
Christchurch 8014
New Zealand

Postal address

Private Bag 4737
249 Papanui Road
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand

Phone: +64 3 369 5124

Lucy Greig, Clinical Director

Lucy Greig, MSc BSLT, graduated from the University of Canterbury in Speech and Language Therapy in 2000. She completed her Masters in Science (speech science) at The University of Auckland in 2011, examining the changes in word-retrieval in healthy older adults. Lucy has worked as a clinician in the field of dysphagia and acquired communication disorders across a variety of healthcare settings, including acute neurological and neurosurgical, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient clinics and in the community. 

Lucy Greig

Clinical Director and Speech-language Therapist

Dr Maggie-Lee Huckabee, Rose Centre Director

Maggie-Lee Huckabee, PhD practised for 13 years before the frustration of never knowing ‘the answers’ led her to an academic career. She is a Professor at University of Canterbury and the Director of the UC Rose Centre for Stroke Recovery and Research. She worked clinically for many years before pursuing a research career but remains invested in best practice for dysphagia diagnosis and rehabilitation through clinically focusesd research and clinical consultation with Ms Greig on Rose Centre patients.

Maggie-Lee Huckabee

Distinguished Professor
Psychology 310
Internal Phone: 95124

Dr Phoebe Macrae, Rose Centre Deputy Director

Phoebe Macrae, PhD completed her doctorate under the supervision of Maggie-Lee Huckabee. She was awarded a two-year Neurological Foundation post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, investigating motor learning in swallowing and continuing work in swallowing neurophysiology. Phoebe has returned to Christchurch to continue her research in dysphagia rehabilitation.

Phoebe Macrae

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar
Psychology 310

Fiona Bellett, Rose Centre Administrator

Fiona is the smiling face of the Rose Centre, greeting our patients, encouraging the staff and managing the administration and paperwork.  Previously, Fiona has worked as an administrator for the NZBRI and for law firms in the Christchurch region.

Fiona Bellett

Rose Centre Administrator

Centre Staff

Eric Ufi Poa Knapp

Research Assistant/Peer Support
Internal Phone: 91050