It was a simple online pizza order that gave clinical psychologist Noam Dishon the idea to create an app that could keep his patients better engaged with access to support in between appointments. The app – Wellifiy - is now up and running, and is helping to improve outcomes for patient accessing support for mental health ..read more

Dr Jon Field has been described as a medico revolutionising the health industry. As the Chief Executive Officer of DOCTO, Australia’s online hospital, Dr Jon is changing the way people access care from medical specialists. We talk to Jon, an intensive care physician at Gold Coast University Hospital, about DOCTO – why he started the service, how his team got it up and running and his vision for the ground breaking telehealth platform ..read more

Dr Shahina Braganza has been an Emergency Physician for 17 years. Early in her career she learnt the importance of looking after her own wellbeing and is now using her experience to support her emergency colleagues to be mindful of their own health and wellbeing ..read more

As the inaugural Director of Griffith University’s Clinical Trial Unit, Professor Evelin Tiralongo has successfully turned the unit into a core research infrastructure facility for the university, with substantial ongoing investigator led and commercial trial business expertise. A pharmacist and academic, Evelin spoke with HealthTech Talks about her career in pharmacy and academia, her work in clinical trial leadership, the clinical trial industry in Australia and the exciting opportunities at the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct and Lumina ..read more

When Eloise Keefe began her career as a research scientist for the sugar industry, she could not have predicted where it would take her. Now, some 15 years later, her in-depth knowledge and experience combined with her business acumen from managing multi-million dollar research projects has taken her career in a new direction. As the commercial business manager for the Institute of Glycomics at Griffith University and a coach for the LuminaX Health Accelerator program, Eloise is helping to shape the future of healthcare research and startups right here on the Gold Coast ..read more

More than 30 years after starting his career in software engineering and IT, Dr Kelvin Ross is still passionate about what he does. He says it’s not only because of the problems technology can solve but because you never know where it can lead you. Dr Kelvin has used technology to help solve problems in finance, defence and Indigenous heritage, to name a few, but his focus is now on healthcare and bringing artificial intelligence to the patient bedside ..read more

A cancer diagnoses at just 32 changed Makala Castelli’s perspective on life. She now makes every day count and fits more into one day than most people would fit in a week. Makala is an entrepreneur and business woman driven to help people live well with, and beyond cancer. In this interview, we talk to Makala about how this illness changed her and led to the creation of limonata and Oncana, an integrated digital platform offering a network of allied and complementary health providers dedicated to support people living with cancer ..read more

Ashley Hanger could not have predicted her latest career move. When the former journalist moved in with her former partner, and saw first-hand the daily struggles he experienced living with diabetes, she became so committed to making life easier for him and others, that she took a giant leap of faith and started her first business, Stripped Supply.  Australia’s first diabetes subscription box automatically delivering medical supplies straight to people’s home, Stripped Supply also provides diabetes education making top-tier healthcare accessible to all. We spoke with Ash about her journey ..read more

Come behind the scenes of the Lumina Gold Coast innovation precinct with Steve Dolores. Steve is the Senior Development Manager for the Lumina Gold Coast commercial cluster and is responsible for the success of the precinct from a development management perspective. Steve has a big job on his hands, from contract negotiation and stakeholder management to ‘place making’, but with his skills, experience and background he takes it all in his stride ..read more

Dren Xerxa found his passion for entrepreneurship in his early twenties. After his first taste of success, he turned his attention to helping other entrepreneurs to connect and thrive by building communities of like-minded people around the world. We spoke with Dren about the community he’s building here within the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct as Program Manager at Cohort, the Gold Coast’s tech start-up launchpad and incubator, and find out about LuminaX, the accelerator program he created for Australian HealthTech Startups ..read more