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Guest: Marijn Kortekaas
Presenter: Wayne Bucklar
Guest Bio: Marijn Kortekaas is a Partner & Program Director Asia Pacific with Physitrack, a global digital therapeutics platform used by thousands of practitioners around the world to prescribe clinical exercise programs to patients and track patient adherence, pain levels and other outcomes in real-time. With 16 years of experience in international business development, including seven years with Nike, Marijn is passionate about using the latest app-based technologies to change the way healthcare is delivered, engage patients throughout their rehabilitation process, and allow healthcare practitioners detailed insight in the patient journey.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, we are joined by Physitrack Partner & Program Director Asia Pacific Marijn Kortekaas here to provide a brief background of their product and explain how their Digital Therapeutics Platform work.They help physiotherapists, surgeons, chiropractors and other practitioners better engage patients, help increase patient adherence and therefore help improve treatment outcomes. Physitrack is the exclusive exercise technology partner of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, Sports Medicine Australia, Chiropractors’ Association of Australia and Chiropractic Australia. They also work closely with leading healthcare organisations and universities in the country.

Guest: Samantha Cobb

Presenter: Tabetha Moreto

Guest Bio: Samantha “Sam” Cobb is the founding CEO of AdAlta. She has over 15 years’ experience in business development and commercialisation of early stage scientific technologies. As the founding CEO of AdAlta, she has raised over $20m in capital from angel investors and venture capital. Samantha was also involved in taking AdAlta public on the ASX, raising $10m in an oversubscribed IPO. Prior to AdAlta, Samantha was the Business Development Director at the Co-operative Research Centre for Diagnostics. She has also worked for the biotech start-up companies Sensologix Inc and Nephrogenix Pty Ltd, and at the University of Queensland’s technology commercialisation companies Uniquest Pty Ltd and IMBcom Pty Ltd.

Segment Overview: In today’s interview, Sam Cobb joins the programs to talk about her company. AdAlta is a highly innovative drug discovery and development company using its powerful technology platform to generate a promising new class of protein therapeutics for treating a wide range of diseases.

Presenter: Wayne Bucklar
Guest: Lloyd Ernst
Guest Bio: Lloyd Ernst, has had a distinguished career in the Australian IT industry as an Internet pioneer and entrepreneur. Over the past three decades, he has worked for industry leaders including Apple and Microsoft and founded and exited a series of successful IT companies in Australia and Asia. Presently, Lloyd is focused on CloudStaff.com and Process-Box.com. These two new but fast growing outsourcing ventures based in the Philippines focus on supporting startup and entrepreneurial businesses. CloudStaff offers businesses dedicated and talented people in both technical and administrative roles.

Guest: Jerald D. Wishner, MD, FACS

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Jerald Wishner is the Co-Director for The Institute for Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Medical Director for the Colorectal Surgery Program at Northern Westchester Hospital. Dr. Wishner is Fellowship trained in both colorectal and minimally invasive surgery, has received advanced training in robotic laparoscopic surgery, and has been designated as a trainer for robotic general and colorectal surgery by Intuitive Surgical.

Segment overview: March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and Dr. Jerald Wishner discusses a new report from the American Cancer Society that suggests colorectal cancer rates are rising sharply among younger people (both millennials and Gen X).

Guest: Mark Borsody
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Mark Borsody, MD, PhD is the Chief Medical Officer of Nervive Inc. He is a stroke neurologist and inventor of the VitalFlow stimulator with 20 years of preclinical and clinical neuroscience research experience and 6 years executive experience in stroke pharmaceutical R&D and medical affairs.

Segment overview: Nervive, Inc. has a simple and safe non-invasive medical device to emergently treat ischemic stroke – the VitalFlow stimulator. The VitalFlow increases blood flow to the brain by stimulating the facial nerve with pulsed magnetic energy; a novel magnetic stimulation coil has been developed by Nervive to specifically stimulate the facial nerve without stimulating the overlying brain. Nervive has 7 patent applications in various stages of review and its first patent has been granted. By the end of 2016, Nervive expects to have an initial version of the VitalFlow available for the intensive care unit market through a co-development partnership. Thereafter, the VitalFlow will be placed in hospital emergency departments and, as a smaller second version of the device, into ambulances.

Guest: Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Marshall, MD, MBA

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Elizabeth (Liz) Marshall, MD, MBA is the Director of Clinical Analytics at Linguamatics. She served as active duty in computer operations in the United States Air Force as part of the logistics team in Operation Enduring Freedom, the military response to the 9-11 Attacks. After her military career, she became a research physician that dedicated her time to informatics solutions to improve efforts to effectively treat the mental health of Military Veterans. Her work as a Clinical Research Health Scientist at the Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Administration Medical Center in Charleston, SC led to substantial gains in the areas of suicidality and PTSD. Her work led to her acceptance of the Research Training Institute Scholar Award, ICRC-S Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention (2013). As project manager, she was responsible for the development of a highly effective e-learning training program for clinicians, “recognized by the government’s education system, the Talent Management System (TMS).” The Department of Defense has since requested to adopt this training for federal-wide usage. She has reviewed and abstracted relevant study information from electronic patient records of over 1,000 patients and approximately 300 clinicians for overall VA hospital care, including physical and mental outcomes of those patients. After these projects and prior to her fellowship training in Informatics at the Medical University of South Carolina, she served as an Assistant Professor where she served as the clinical manager for a nutrition study for Veterans in efforts to decrease suicidality.  

Segment Overview: Elizabeth Marshall, MD, MBA, Director of Clinical Analytics at Linguamatics discusses how NLP (Natural Language Processing) technology can improve veteran care and maybe even prevent suicides.

Guest: Lisa Capamagian
Presenter: Wayne Bucklar
Guest Bio: Lisa joined Tunstall in 2006, with 20 years of sales, marketing and management experience in a variety of industries including: health, food manufacturing, travel, gaming and media. Lisa has a degree in health science and a post graduate degree in communications. She is a passionate advocate for proactive health care management and health promotion. As Corporate Development Manager of Tunstall Healthcare, Lisa is responsible for the development of new business strategies in the Asia Pacific region.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, learn more about the services that Tunstall Healthcare has to offer. Tunstall Healthcare is a world leading provider of telecare and telehealth solutions. Operating in over 50 countries and supporting more than 3.6 million people, our connected care solutions play a key role in helping older people, and those with long-term health needs, to live safely and independently in their own homes. With over 55 years of global experience, they offer a truly end-to-end solution, encompassing design and development, consultancy and service support, deployment and training, and triage and monitoring services.

Guest: Dr. Natasha Lazareski (Kiso)
Presenter: Henry Acosta
Guest Bio: Natasha is an occupational health specialist, and an expert in organizational health and psychosocial risk management. She worked in personal insurance area as Medical Officer and Claims Manager in AXA Australia and workers’ compensation as National Manager of CGU Injury Management Services. She has helped a wide range of organisations – including national and global employers; and government institutions – to successfully develop sustainable risk management strategies and holistic health frameworks. She completed her medical degree in Belgrade, Serbia and was a junior doctor during the war there in the late 80s and early 90s. Natasha’s first had exposure to the disastrous effects of war and trauma, and their devastating effects on the human mind, stirred her to explore preventive medicine and psychological health. She became especially interested in psychological flexibility and helping people develop the strength to deal with challenging situations.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, we are joined by Dr. Natasha Lazareski from Psyflex. Dr Natasha Lazareski (Kiso) is a co-director of PsyFlex, together with Dr Russ Harris. They aim to create strong, flexible workforces, using best-practice methods, guided by cutting-edge research. They offer a cutting edge approach for thriving organisations, resilient employees and supportive work environments. Among the services that they offer are Organisational Development Programs, Health and Wellbeing, Psychosocial Risk Management, Individual Development, Workshops and Specific Health Management Services. Both Natasha and Russ continue to explore the important connections between mind, body, environment and wellbeing.

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.