INTERVIEWS

Guest: Richard Paterson
Presenter: Wayne Bucklar
Guest Bio: Richard Paterson’s professional career has included many years in Electronic Security, and a long spell working in the Not For Profit sector. These two, seemingly unrelated chapters, have combined to find him helping Aged Care and Health Care professionals improve their practice with electronic solutions. Richard’s mantra is “my job, is to help you to yours”. He is passionate about partnering with clinical staff, in order to provide better outcomes for their clients/patients.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, we welcome Solutions Delivery Consultant for Electrotek Richard Paterson. Built on almost 30 years of experience, they are a Queensland based electronics solutions company that aims to provide exemplary aged-care equipment, electronic equipment design and supply, service and consultative support to customers. With an incredibly clever and experienced team of technical experts in-house, they are able to translate needs into solutions. Having such experience and intelligence at hand, they are able to explore available products, but also create and adapt for tailored outcomes.
Electrotek is always finding new challenges to solve.

Guest: Dr Andrew Ronchi B.App.Sci (Physio), PhD (Comm Sys Eng), GAICD
Presenter: Wayne Bucklar
Guest Bio: Andrew Ronchi is the brainchild and founder behind Melbourne-based technology company dorsaVi. A sports fanatic and former physio for AFL clubs Melbourne and St Kilda, Andrew and his tech savvy brother Dan developed a suite of wearable sensor technologies that have a unique ability to measure and interpret human movement. Through undertaking a PhD in Computer and Systems Engineering; Andrew found his inspiration for dorsaVi – a company founded in 2000 – through the investigation of the reliability and validity of transducers for measuring lumbar spine movement. With the help of his brother Dan they developed a device, ViMove that offered a new way of measuring movement for patients, both in and away from the clinic, in real time and real situations. The need for this type of technology in the OH&S and elite sports markets became quickly apparent, so ViSafe and ViPerform were developed respectively to meet this demand.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment we are joined by Dr. Andrew Ronchi, Chief Executive Officer of dorsaVi. dorsaVi are using sophisticated wearable technology to assess and treat patients with conditions affecting their movement. They provide complex medical-grade movement data in real-time. The technology has FDA & TGA clearance, and European CE mark. It is currently used by over 200 physicians & other health professionals across the US, Europe and Australia.
A recently published randomised-controlled trial demonstrates the effectiveness of dorsaVi technology in the management of chronic low back pain. Patients assessed and treated with dorsaVi wearable technology were 2.4 times more likely to have improved function and 3.3 times more likely to have significantly reduced pain, when compared to patients receiving standard care. These results were sustained for at least 12 months after treatment began; a truly remarkable result for chronic low back pain, a notoriously challenging condition to treat.

Guest: Dr. David Cosgrove
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Dr. Cosgrove is a medical oncologist with Compass Oncology, a practice in The US Oncology Network. He specializes in general adult oncology with advanced subspecialty expertise in breast and gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. He serves on The US Oncology Research Network’s national GI Research Committee and as a principal investigator for many studies.

Segment overview: Dr. David Cosgrove, MD, discusses the new cancer “Moonshot” initiative led by Vice President Biden.

Guest: Kathryn Kemp Guylay
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Kathryn Kemp Guylay is Founder of Nurture in Illinois. Kathryn wears many hats for Nurture including Board Chair and Executive Director. Kathryn loves to work directly with participants, applying her bilingual abilities as needed and offering her expertise as a Certified Nutritional Counselor. Kathryn also gives presentations at school assemblies or other group gatherings and is available as a Trainer on the Nurture curricula. Kathryn has a masters degree in business administration (MBA) and was a principal in a management consulting company prior to her entrance into the world of nutrition education.

Segment overview: Kathryn Kemp Guylay, MBA, and Certified Nutritional Counselor, has for health professionals some quick, easy tips to give to frazzled parents who are asking questions about picky eaters and how to encourage kids to eat healthier foods.