Author: healthprofessionalradio

Guest: David Meldrum
Presenter: Patrick Reyes
Guest Bio: David Meldrum has worked in a variety of executive positions across much of the human services sector, both in government, in NGOs and as a consultant. Along with time spent working with young offenders, child protection, public housing and aged care, he has been found himself repeatedly drawn back to Australia’s unfinished business of guaranteeing decent services and a better quality of life for people with mental illness.
After nearly 30 years working in and around the mental health sector, David is excited by the broader perspectives of recent years, driven in part by the influx of workers at all levels with lived experience Recovery-focused services, with whole of family approaches, and strongly peer-influenced in all aspects of their work, are here to stay, and he feels privileged to be part of that action.

Segment overview: David Meldrum is the Executive Director of the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia, a federation of long-standing member organisations delivering specialist services for individuals and families. MIFA members operate out of nearly 150 locations across Australia. They work with and alongside participants and members of our organisations in every program, whether as staff, managers, peers, volunteers or board members. MIFA works closely with families, carers and friends as well as the person with a mental illness. Their holistic objectives involve assisting individuals and families in their journey to recover mental health, physical health, social connectedness and equal opportunity in all aspects of life. Their collaborations with other service providers ensure that their front doors will always lead to the best local services.

Guest: Dr. Robert Walker
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Robert C. Walker, Ph.D., is the CEO of Rayvio, an advanced health and hygiene company that enables clean water and environments. Dr. Walker has 20 years experience in the LED and compound semiconductor world, particularly in Asia, and 6 years of venture capital experience. He was formerly a Partner at Sierra Ventures and CEO of BridgeLux. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech.
RayVio, based in Silicon Valley, helps protect against persistent environmental health threats by delivering a new class of innovative products. Applications include water, air and surface disinfection and medical treatments with a particular focus on consumer products.

Segment overview: RayVio, a health and hygiene company, is launching a new class of UV LED products that can disinfect in a flash (literally!). Eliminating the need for bulky, fragile and toxic chemicals. While UV LEDs have previously been used for disinfection, they’ve never before been as compact and as powerful until now.

Guest: Dr. Michael Greger
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Michael Greger, MD, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. Currently Dr. Greger serves as the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. His latest book How Not to Die became an instant New York Times Best Seller.

Segment overview: Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, and author of the New York Times best seller “How Not To Die”, discusses his other writings, and whats trending now in nutrition research.

Guest: Dr. Michael Greger
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Michael Greger, MD, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. Currently Dr. Greger serves as the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. His latest book How Not to Die became an instant New York Times Best Seller.

Segment overview: Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, and author of the New York Times best seller “How Not To Die”, talks about Nutritionfacts.org, a non profit organization that he founded.

Guest: Dr. Michael Greger
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Michael Greger, MD, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. Currently Dr. Greger serves as the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. His latest book How Not to Die became an instant New York Times Best Seller.

Segment overview: Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, discusses his latest book, a New York Times best seller, “How Not To Die” that takes a look at the 15 top causes of death in America, and how nutritional and lifestyle interventions that are peer-reviewed and scientifically proven can help.

Guest: Dr. Alan Taylor
Presenter: Patrick Reyes
Guest Bio: Dr Alan Taylor has a background as a scientist, investment banker, entrepreneur and investor. Alan is currently very active in the Australian start-up area, investing in, advising and taking an active role within a number of early stage companies. Alan is also the Chairman and co-founder of Mizzen Group Pty Ltd, a new technology start-up company in the transport and logistics area. Alan is passionate about the commercialisation of Australian science and technologies, either in general technology or the life sciences. Alan has approximately 10 years of investment banking experience, and was until recently an Executive Director and shareholder of Inteq Limited, a boutique Australian investment bank, where he remains on the Board of Directors. Alan has significant experience in capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate advisory. He has experience across a broad range of industries including healthcare and life sciences, technology, and resources. At Inteq, Alan was involved in some of Australia’s largest life sciences transactions. Alan is also a lecturer at the University of Sydney, lecturing to Masters of Commerce and International Business students undertaking studies in New Business Opportunities and Start-ups.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, we welcome Dr. Alan Taylor who is currently the Executive Chairman at Clarity Pharmaceuticals. Their technology, developed in collaboration with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and the University of Melbourne, allows biopharmaceuticals to be radiolabelled for therapy as well as visualised using PET imaging. The imaging data generated provides powerful information on targeting, clearance and biodistribution of the product, which aids in drug development. This de-risks the development process and allows making informed decisions regarding biopharmaceutical drug candidates. Clarity offers this capability as a service to biopharmaceutical developers worldwide and also utilises the expertise to develop its own clinical pipeline. The company’s in-house drug development program is focused on developing novel targeted therapeutics, along with their companion diagnostics, to treat serious disease. Clarity’s first product, SARTATE™, is being developed to treat a range of cancers including neuro-endocrine tumours, as well as devastating childhood cancers such as neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma.