INTERVIEWS

Guest: Natalie Wischer

Presenter: Henry Acosta

Guest Bio: Natalie Wischer is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Association of Diabetes Centre (NADC). She has been working in the area of diabetes for over 20 years. She has also worked extensively in both management and clinical roles across acute, aged care and community health settings. She is involved in a number of journals and publications, sharing her in-depth knowledge through regular articles. Natalie is also regularly invited to speak on diabetes and technology at national and international meetings.

Segment Overview: Natalie talks about the NADC’s Diabetes Centres of Excellence accreditation standards in Australia. Centres of Excellence recognition is given to applicants who have met the key criteria as assessed by the NADC Accreditation Committee and is awarded for a period of four years. The NADC is a collaboration of Diabetes Centres across Australia, committed to supporting member centres in improving the standard of care for people living with or at risk of diabetes.

Guest: Roger Chen

Presenter: Tabetha Moreto

Guest Bio: Roger Chen is Director of Diabetes Services and Senior Staff Specialist in the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism in Concord Hospital with clinical interests in general endocrinology, osteoporosis and diabetes. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney and Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is head of a large medically led multidisciplinary diabetes team incorporating exercise and diet intervention in addition to nurse, medical and psychological assessment.

Segment Overview: Roger Chen talks about the position statement of Australian Diabetes Society (ADS) aimed at assisting healthcare providers to better support people living with serious mental illness and type 2 diabetes in light of the World Mental Health Day, October 10 2017.

Guest: Dr Jayson Oates  

Presenter: Wayne Bucklar

Guest Bio: Dr Jayson Oates, Medical Director of CALIBRE Clinic, is a highly skilled surgeon with almost 20 years of experience in aesthetic and lifestyle surgery. He finished Bachelor of Surgery in 1990 and finished Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (ENT) training in 1997. Dr Oates developed an interest in the lifestyle and genital-aesthetic medicine and has expanded his cosmetic surgery to include body reshaping, snore-reduction and genital rejuvenation/enhancement. He established CALIBRE Clinic, a specialty practice dedicated to medical male enhancement procedures.

Segment Overview: Research shows that up to 60% of men have concerns about the size or appearance of their penis. CALIBRE Clinic offers painless, non-surgical, safe medical procedures to increase penis girth. They also offer non-medicated options to address men’s  issues with erectile dysfunction.

Guest: Dr Melissa Stoneham  

Presenter: Wayne Bucklar

Guest Bio: Dr Melissa Stoneham has been the WA Director at the Public Health Advocacy Institute for nine years. She is also the principal of a Public Health Consultancy business. Dr. Stoneham has over 25 years’ experience in the fields of public and environmental health, with particular skills in the area of health promotion, public policy and advocacy. She has worked with and for local, state and commonwealth government agencies, universities, professional associations and international Aid organisations, WHO in Africa and Secretariat of Pacific Communities in Noumea, working in a range of fields including environmental health, occupational health, health promotion, health policy and advocacy.

Segment Overview: Being a public health advocate, Dr. Stoneham shares her views on the possible impact of a fast food chain sponsoring a national sports event, which means having billboards and advertisements promoting unhealthy food options for kids and adults. Just recently, Hungry Jacks has announced that it will be the new naming rights holder of the National Basketball League (NBL) for 2017 and 2018 season. Hungry Jacks is the Australian fast food franchise of Burger King Corporation, home of the famous Whopper burgers.

Guest:  Natalie Wischer

Presenter: Tabetha Moreto  

Guest Bio: Natalie is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Association of Diabetes Centre (NADC). She has also worked extensively in both management and clinical roles across acute, aged care and community health settings. With over 20 years working in the area of diabetes, her passion has grown to include a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and benefits of available technologies including telehealth and social media in self-management, education, and support of people living with diabetes. She is involved in a number of journals and publications sharing her in-depth knowledge through regular articles. Natalie is regularly invited to speak on diabetes and technology at national and international meetings.

Segment overview: Natalie talks about the Australian Diabetes Advancements and Technologies Summit (ADATS) 2017, which is offered to healthcare professionals in Australia for the first time. It aims to improve the knowledge and skill of healthcare professionals in the area of diabetes by covering advanced technologies, breakthrough therapeutics, and best practice innovations – this includes Apps, Gadgets, Flash Monitoring, Telehealth, and E-health services.

Guest: Meg Hinselwood

Presenter: Wayne Bucklar

Book Review: “Try Hard” is a lovely book written by Em Rusciano, an Australian writer, singer, and comedian who is known for her performances on Australian Idol and stand-up shows around the country. She’s also a podcast and radio announcer in South Australia. She describes herself as being an overachiever. There are chapters in this book about different periods in her life and very candid observations of herself, which a lot of people will be able to relate to. An absolute page-turner. Rating: 8.5/10

Guest: Brian Hinselwood  

Presenter: Wayne Bucklar

Book Review: “All The Dirty Parts” is a book about teenagers and a realistic depiction of young sexual desires and emotional discovery. The story is about a young lad named ‘Cole’ who is terribly attractive to young girls of his own age and allures them to do lustful things with their bodies. Until he meets one particular girl whom he falls in love with and got him running around after her rather than the other way around. It’s a nice little book and nothing was written offensive in it. A fun read for teenagers and adults. Rating: 7.5/10

Guest: Desiree (Dee) Lyon  

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dee is the Executive Director of the American Porphyria Foundation as well as an Acute Intermittent Porphyria patient. She suffered her first attack when she was 17 years old. In 1982, she founded the American Porphyria Foundation to educate doctors and the public about porphyria, raise funds for research, and advocate for a better policy and patient care.   

Segment overview: Desiree Lyon, Executive Director of the American Porphyria Foundation, discusses the foundation, patient advocacy, and her own experience with acute hepatic porphyria.

Guest: Dr. Daniel Singer, MD  

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Daniel E. Singer is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Associate Chief for Research in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is widely known for his research in the prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation (AF). With Dr. Alan Go, Dr. Singer led the ATRIA cohort studies assessing anticoagulation for AF in real-world care. Dr. Singer was Chair for the chapter on AF in the 2004 and 2008 American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy and lead author of these guidelines. He continued as a co-author on the 2012 version of these guidelines. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the ROCKET AF trial that demonstrated the “non-inferiority” of the novel anticoagulant, rivaroxaban, versus warfarin as stroke preventive therapy in AF. Dr. Singer was the recipient of the 2008 C. Miller Fisher Award from the New England chapter of the American Stroke Association/American Heart Association for his contributions to stroke research.

Segment overview: Dr. Daniel Singer of Harvard discusses a recent global report issued by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that finds the majority of people at high risk of stroke aren’t being screened for common risk factors and the need for more effective screening.

Guest: Dr. Tushar Patel

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guests Bio: Dr. Tushar Patel is double board certified in plastic surgery and general surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery and he is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He is a specialist in reconstruction after cancer surgery and traumatic injury. Dr. Patel received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University, graduating with honors. He earned his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, from which he graduated in the top of his class.

Segment overview: Dr. Tushar Patel, MD, FACS from The Institute for Advanced Reconstruction at The Plastic Surgery Center talks about Graves’ ophthalmopathy or Graves’ eye disease.