Dr Vanessa Beavis is a specialist anaesthetist employed by the Auckland District Health Board and the Southern Cross and Mercy Ascot Hospitals in Auckland. 

She is also the Director of Anaesthesia and Operating Rooms at Auckland City Hospital. Her main area of interest, with respect to clinical work, is liver transplantation.

Dr Beavis is a Part II Examiner and has served on the New Zealand National Committee for six years. She is currently the Chair of the committee, was the founding Chair of the Anaesthetists in Management Special Interest Group and is a member of the Perioperative Medicine Committee. Recently, Dr Beavis was the Chair of the ANZCA New Zealand Panel for Vocational Registration for three years and in this capacity she has also been a member of the College International Medical Graduate Specialist (IMGS) Committee.

Dr Beavis is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anaesthesiology at Auckland University.