Dr Stanway is the current President of the New Zealand Dermatological Society and is on the Board of Trustees of Dermnet, an internationally respected online dermatology education site. She has practised as a Medical and Surgical Dermatologist in her private clinic in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand for the past 20 years and is also a clinical trials investigator on over 20 trials. She is the lead author on a chapter in the current Rook Textbook of Dermatology.