Dr Tim Senior has worked as a GP at Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation, the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service in Campbelltown, South-West Sydney for the last 18 years. Prior to this he has worked in Central Australia, the Torres Strait and the UK, each time in low-income communities. Tim combines his clinical work with work as the Medical Advisor for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and has been heavily involved in the development of guidelines and resources for all GPs working with First Nations Australians. He established two specific interest groups within the RACGP, one on poverty, and one on environmental impacts in general practice. In 2023 he completed his Churchill Fellowship on how to investigate how to provide high quality primary care to disadvantaged communities in Australia. 

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Dr Flavia Fayet-Moore is a Brazilian-born, Canadian-raised, Australian-made keynote speaker, scientist, space nutritionist and entrepreneur.   An alumna of the University of Toronto, she earned an Honours Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences, followed by a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics and a PhD from the University of Sydney. She is also a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.  Dr Flavia completed the Space Studies Program at the International Space University, bringing a unique perspective to space nutrition.  She is the founder and CEO of FOODiQ Global, which leads game-changing research, communication and education that provides strategic and meaningful impact on people’s health.  She is also the co-founder of Food is Cool, where nutrition in schools is done differently.

Dr Flav website

FOODiQ Global

Food is Cool

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Dr Zac Seidler is a clinical psychologist, researcher and leading men’s mental health expert. He currently holds dual roles as Global Director of Men’s Health Research at Movember and Senior Research Fellow with Orygen at the University of Melbourne. Through his research and PhD, Zac has advocated for a change in the way we think about treating men’s distress. As part of his research, he has uniquely focused on creating mental health services that account for masculinity. This has evolved into a fully funded project, Men in Mind, the world’s first training program for mental health clinicians, to help them better understand and respond to men’s distress and suicidality.

Movember's Men in Mind Training

Movember's What is Therapy? Short videos

Movember's Healthcare Practitioner Insights Survey

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Webinar: 12 February 7:00pm AEDT - How to safely stop antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs with Dr Mark Horowitz and Dr Sam Manger 

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Professor Shantha Rajaratnam is Professor of Sleep and Circadian Medicine and Head of the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University. He is Chair of the Sleep Health Foundation and Chair of the Monash Sleep Network.  He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Sleep Health Foundation resources

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Professor Michael Berk is a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and is Alfred Deakin Chair of Psychiatry at Deakin University and Barwon Health.  He is Past President of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders and heads major research initiatives including the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for the Development of Innovative Therapies for Psychiatric Disorders (CREDIT) and the Mental Health Adult General Trial Network (MAGNET), Australia’s first mental health clinical trials network.  He has published over 1400 papers and has received multiple awards including but not limited to the RANZCP Senior Research Award in 2021 and in 2024 the Australian Mental Health Prize. He is listed by Thompson Reuters as amongst the world’s most influential scientific minds.

Today we discuss Bipolar Affective Disorders Type 1 and Type 2. 

Some additional resources for this podcast:

1. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 2018 Mar;20(2):97-170. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12609. Epub 2018 Mar 14. PMID: 29536616; PMCID: PMC5947163. (Due to be updated in 2025)
2. Non-canonical pathways in the pathophysiology and therapeutics of bipolar disorder. Front Neurosci. 2023 Aug 1;17:1228455. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1228455. PMID: 37592949; PMCID: PMC10427509.

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Professor Susan Davis is Director of the Monash University Women’s Health Research Program, NHMRC Leadership 3 Investigator and Head of the Women’s Endocrine Clinic at Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.  Susan is an internationally recognised expert on sex hormones and ageing, including menopause and its health sequelae. Susan is a past President of the International Menopause Society and the Australasian Menopause Society and has received numerous prestigious research awards including the Elizabeth Blackburn Award of the NHMRC (2023), Ross Hohnen Award of the Australian Heart Foundation (2022), and the Medal of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Officer of the Order of Australia.

Interview starts at 9:24

Practitioner’s Toolkit for Managing Menopause

Evia Hypnosis App

Hormone Replacement Therapy The GP Show podcast 

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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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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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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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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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