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Private Healthcare Australia 2024 Conference Program
Boronia room on Level 2 (InterContinental Sydney, 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000)

Healthcare for the empowered consumer: navigating fact from fiction amid the cost-of-living crisis
DAY 1 – Tuesday, 15 October 2024
12:30pm – 1:30pm Registration and Lunch
1:35pm – 1:45pm Welcome to Country
1:50pm – 2pm Welcome | Opening Remarks Dr Rachel David, PHA and Ricardo Gonçalves, MC
2pm – 2:30pm Keynote address: Empowering consumers to manage their healthcare/be informed. Dr Ben Bravery
2:30pm – 2:45pm Break
2:50pm – 3:45pm Panel session: Social Media’s Influence on diagnoses, selfcare and treatment Moderator:
Ricardo Gonçalves, MC

 
Panellists:
Yasmin London, Qoria

Laura Henshaw, Kic

Dr Zac Turner
3:50pm – 4:35pm Panel session: Introducing consumer convenience into healthcare Moderator:
Michael Smith, AFR

 
Panellists:
Anna Smith, iMH Deakin Private Hospital
 
Mark Fitzgibbon, nib
 
Matthew Gregory, Zable Health

4:40pm – 5:10pm Overdiagnoses and over treatments in a cost-of-living crisis Dr Adam Triggs, Mandala
5:10pm Close of Day 1
6:30pm – 9:30pm Conference dinner 
Speaker: Jessica Fox OAM
Venue: Boronia Room (Level 2), InterContinental

 

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Private Healthcare Australia 2024 Conference Program
Boronia room on Level 2 (InterContinental Sydney, 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000)

Healthcare for the empowered consumer: navigating fact from fiction amid the cost-of-living crisis
DAY 2 – Wednesday, 16 October 2024
8:30am – 9am Registration and coffee on arrival
9am – 9:05am Introduction to Day 2  Dr Rachel David, PHA and Ricardo Gonçalves, MC
9:05am – 9:50am Panel: Political climate Moderator:
Dr Rachel David, PHA

 
Panellists:
John Black, Health Geographics
 
Kos Samaras, RedBridge
 
Brian Loughnane AO, business and political strategic advisor
9:55am – 10:35am Blinded…by science tells the story of Neil Hansell, a man who woke one morning blind in both eyes due to his diabetes. In this fascinating yet confronting presentation, Dr Muecke discusses the key drivers of metabolic dysfunction which are creating a tidal wave of mental health ailments and chronic disease in our society. Type 2 diabetes is the blinding and deadly end-stage outcome of metabolic dysfunction, a disease that’s now impacting children as young as three in this country. Dr Muecke reveals why type 2 diabetes is a growing epidemic and explores a number of strategies to curb the toxic impact of a poor diet on our own health and on our world. Dr James Muecke AM, 2020 Australian of the Year, Eye Surgeon & Blindness Prevention Pioneer
10:35am – 10:55am Break
11am – 11:55am Panel session: Obesity Treatment Moderator:
Ricardo Gonçalves, MC

 
Panellists:
Natasha Robinson, The Australian
 
Dr Nic Kormas, Senior Staff Specialist Endocrinologist & Obesity Physician
 
Dr Robert McGrath, nib
 
Theresa Thompson, WIN
12pm – 12:30pm Separating fact from fiction in healthcare Dr Ranjana Srivastava, Monash Health
12:30pm – 1pm Lunch
1:05pm – 2:15pm Panel session: How health funds can encourage members to live healthy lives (empowering the consumer) Moderator:
Ricardo Gonçalves, MC

 
Panellists:
Matthew Evans, Gourmet Farmer

Dr Sam Manger, The GP Show Podcast

Jacqueline Alwill, Brown Paper Nutrition

Callum Hann, Chef, Author, Entrepreneur
2:20pm – 2:50pm Mental health – a perspective on men and boys Dr Zac Seidler, Movember
2:50pm – 3pm Closing remarks Dr Rachel David, PHA and Ricardo Gonçalves, MC
3:10pm Close of Conference

 

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