Annemarie is a critical diagnosis scholar, whose ground-breaking work in the sociology of diagnosis focuses on how medical classification interacts with social and cultural interests. She has written about medicalisation and the interests of the pharmaceutical industry, the diagnostic process and delivery of the dire diagnosis, and the presence and impact of diagnosis in popular culture and literature. She was the director of "Mataora: Encounters between Medicine and the Arts." Annemarie is the Professor of Health at Te Herenga Waka (Victoria University of Wellington). She has also worked as an paediatric intensive care nurse and a rural first responder, and has just finished her first graphic novel.