• #186 Private Healthcare in Australia with Dr Rachel David
    Jul 25 2024

    Dr Rachel David is the CEO of Private Healthcare Australia, the private health insurance industry’s peak representative body that currently has 22 registered health funds throughout Australia and collectively represents 98% of people covered by private health insurance. Dr David was a medical adviser to the Federal Minister for Health between 1996 and 2000, and subsequently held senior positions with CSL Ltd and McKinsey & Company before taking up her current post in 2015.

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    53 mins
  • #185 Deprescribing Psychotropic Medications with Dr Mark Horowitz
    Jun 20 2024

    Dr Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist, split between UK and Australia, working in London as a Clinical Research Fellow in the NHS and an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at University College London. He has completed a PhD in the neurobiology of depression and the pharmacology of antidepressants at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and for this received two prizes from the British Association of Psychopharmacology. He is also the lead author of the recently published Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, a handbook on how to safely stop psychiatric drugs.

    AJGP article Antidepressant prescribing in general practice: A call to action

    Royal College of Psychiatrists "Stopping anti-depressants" guidance

    YouTube video for patients

    NICE guidelines: Depression in Adults Treatment and Management

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • #184 Long COVID with Dr Emma Tippett
    Jun 8 2024

    Dr Emma Tippett MBBS FRACP, PhD completed her medical degree in 2012 and underwent specialist Infectious Disease Physician training in Melbourne and completed her PhD at the Burnet Institute. Since the beginning of the pandemic she has been immersed in all facets of COVID-19 and established one of the first long COVID telehealth clinics in Victoria in 2020 called Clinic Nineteen. In addition, she currently holds appointments at two Melbourne Hospitals.

    Interview starts at ~5:30 mins

    Rural Doctors Association of QLD RDAQ2024 annual conference held in Meanjin | Brisbane from 20-22 June

    The Essential Health Summit, combining the Lifestyle Medicine 2024 conference and the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association’s (APNA) Festival of Nursing

    Brain ageing and longevity medicine webinar 11 June 2024 | 7:00pm AEST

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • #183 The Future of Primary Care with Tracey Johnson
    Feb 22 2024

    Tracey Johnson is the CEO of Inala Primary Care, a charitable general practice in Queensland’s most disadvantaged suburban location and co-founder of Cubiko, a practice dashboard software solution. The IPC model was named as one of four which should be adopted nationally under the 10 Year Health Reform Process and embraces multi-disciplinary care, social prescribing, shared medical appointments, beacon clinics with hospital partners and a raft of research with universities exploring how practices provide value based care. She is Deputy Chair of the Primary Care Advisory Group of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and she is on the Expert Advisory Panel overseeing the review of general practice incentives.

    Interview starts at 5:20 mins

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • #182 Scalp, Hair Disorders and Doctor's Wellbeing with Dr Ahmed Kazmi
    Jan 11 2024

    Dr Ahmed Kazmi is a UK trained Dermatologist and GP currently based in Melbourne, Australia. He loves all dermatology but has a special interest in hair and scalp disorders, transgender medicine and skin of colour dermatology. He is a keen medical educationalist and enjoys empowering his GP colleagues with dermatology knowledge and skills. He is a clinical senior lecturer at the University of UWA. He is passionate about doctor wellbeing and also often speaks on this topic. When he isn't consulting he moonlights as a professional cabaret artist and comedian.

    Website and upcoming show details: www.doctorahmed.net

    Twitter/X/Facebook/instagram/YouTube: @drahmedkazmi

    Podcast content and times:

    0-26.05 mins = Introduction and doctor's wellbeing

    26.05 mins to end = Scalp and hair disorders (seborrheoic dermatitis, dandruff, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, scalp and hair care)

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • #181 Culinary Nutrition with Emma Stirling
    Jan 8 2024

    Emma Stirling is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian, Director of Scoop Nutrition consultancy and award-winning nutrition communicator. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics and the Academic Lead for the Graduate Certificate in Culinary Nutrition at the Australian Catholic University (ACU).

    Upskill in culinary nutrition through Australian Catholic University courses:

    • Graduate Certificate in Culinary Nutrition Science https://www.acu.edu.au/course/graduate-certificate-in-culinary-nutrition-science
    • Short course microcredentials https://www.acu.edu.au/course/microcredentials-in-dietetic-practiceculinary-nutrition-science?campus=Online
    • Join the ACU Culinary Nutrition Community of Practice on LinkedIN – click and “follow” below, all welcome https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/acu-culinary-nutrition/?viewAsMember=true
    • The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative https://teachingkitchens.org/

    Interview starts at ~3:30 mins.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • #180 Social Connection in Healthcare with Professor Judy Lowthian
    Dec 11 2023

    Professor Judy Lowthian leads a multidisciplinary research team as Head of Research and Principal Research Fellow at Bolton Clarke, a national not-for-profit aged and community care provider. She is an Adjunct Professor with University of Queensland’s Faculty of Health and Associate Professor with Monash University’s School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine. Her early professional career was as a speech pathologist in rehabilitation following acquired brain injury, and in management of interdisciplinary child and adolescent health services. Judy is internationally recognised in the field of gerontological health services research in emergency care, hospital-to-home care transitions, frailty, cognitive impairment and dementia, loneliness, palliative care, and implementation of new models of care with a focus on patient and family experience.

    Some resources:

    Jacques Lee from Mount Sinai in Toronto, radio interview that discusses loneliness as a vital sign https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/16024574-loneliness-bad-smoking-says-who

    - Volunteer delivered social support program HOW R U? | Bolton Clarke

    Connect Local Connect Local - A FREE program linking over 65's to supports and activities in Glen Eira

    Storytelling – an intergenerational approach to social connection Life Stories Project | Bolton Clarke

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    54 mins
  • #179 Co-Design in Health with First Nations Australians with Dr Alana Gall
    Dec 11 2023

    Dr Alana Gall is a proud Truwulway woman, a Pakana (Tasmanian Aboriginal) from the north-east coast of Lutruwita (Tasmania). Alana is passionate about Indigenous peoples' holistic health and wellbeing globally. She has a background with degrees in nutritional medicine, Master of Research and a PhD. Alana is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine at Southern Cross University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at both the University of Queensland and Menzies School of Health Research. She is the Co-Vice Chair of the World Federation of Public Health Associations Indigenous Working Group, and the Vice President-Elect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health at the Public Health Association of Australia. Alana pioneered the use of individual yarns with a think-aloud component, called the ‘think-aloud yarn’, and co-developed the Key Principles to Co-Design with First Nations peoples, which have informed the development of Cancer Australia's Australian Cancer Plan and will underpin its implementation. She leads a research program that centres around First Nations Australians traditional medicines and healing practices, with the aims of protecting and preserving these medicines for future generations and improving accessibility for all First Nations communities across Australia.

    National survey focused on First Nations traditional medicines:

    • First Nations Patient survey: https://scuau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8rakLaErMmT4QyW
    • Health Sector survey: https://scuau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_819HrxWE5RUglP8

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    1 hr and 1 min