Guest Speaker: Pauline Blomfield - K9 Medical Detection 

The Rotary Club of Invercargill is excited to be hosting Pauline Blomfield, Founder and Chief Executive of K9 Medical Detection NZ as our Guest Speaker on 17th February 2026.

Passionate about making a difference, Pauline founded K9 Medical Detection NZ (K9MD) with a vision to revolutionise early disease detection using highly trained medical alert dogs. 

K9MD’s work is to harness the extraordinary power of canine scent detection to support life-saving research and improve health outcomes for New Zealanders.

The work at K9MD is a collaboration between medical professionals, researchers, and exceptional detection dogs, aiming to develop non-invasive, accurate, and early detection methods for diseases such as cancer.

What K9 Medical Dogs are doing is an exciting development in the fight against cancer, and with so many people impacted by cancer we want as many people as possible to have access to Pauline's talk. 

If you or you know a friend, family member or work colleague who would be interested to join us for lunch and hear more how about K9 Medical Detection Dogs and Science are working together here are the details:  

Tuesday 17th February - 12.15pm – 1.45pm - Kelvin Hotel – Level 6

$25pp for light lunch with cake, tea & coffee [Parking @ former H J Smith Parking building included] 

Please RSVP via email with any dietary requirements to: rcinvercargill@gmail.com

Want to know more about K9 Medical Detection before hearing Pauline's talk, visit: https://www.k9md.org.nz/