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Private Healthcare Australia 2024 Conference Program Boronia Room on Level 2, InterContinental Sydney, 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 *Healthcare for the empowered consumer: navigating fact from fiction amid the cost-of-living crisis*
DAY 1 – Tuesday, 15 October 2024
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Registration and Lunch
1:35pm – 1:45pm	Welcome to Country
1:50pm – 2pm	Welcome \| Opening Remarks	Dr Rachel David, PHA and Ricardo Gonçalves, MC
2pm – 2:30pm	Keynote address: Empowering consumers to manage their healthcare / be informed.	Dr Ben Bravery
2:30pm – 2:45pm	Break
2:50pm – 3:45pm	Panel session: Social media’s influence on diagnoses, self-care and treatment	Moderator: Ricardo Gonçalves, MC Panellists: Yasmin London, Qoria Laura Henshaw, Kic Dr Zac Turner
3:50pm – 4:35pm	Panel session: Introducing consumer convenience into healthcare	Moderator: Michael Smith, AFR Panellists: Anna Smith, iMH Deakin Private Hospital Mark Fitzgibbon, nib Matthew Gregory, Zable Health
4:40pm – 5:10pm	Overdiagnoses and over-treatments in a cost-of-living crisis	Dr Adam Triggs, Mandala
5:10pm	Close of Day 1
6:30pm – 9:30pm	Conference dinner Speaker: Jessica Fox OAM Venue: Boronia Room, Level 2, InterContinental Sydney

Private Healthcare Australia 2024 Conference Program Boronia Room on Level 2, InterContinental Sydney, 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 *Healthcare for the empowered consumer: navigating fact from fiction amid the cost-of-living crisis*
DAY 2 – Wednesday, 16 October 2024
8:30am – 9am	Registration and coffee on arrival
9am – 9:05am	Introduction to Day 2	Dr Rachel David, PHA and Ricardo Gonçalves, MC
9:05am – 9:50am	Panel: Political climate	Moderator: Dr Rachel David, PHA Panellists: John Black, Health Geographics Kos Samaras, RedBridge Brian Loughnane AO, business and political strategic advisor
9:55am – 10:35am	Blinded…by science tells the story of Neil Hansell, a man who woke one morning blind in both eyes due to his diabetes. In this fascinating yet confronting presentation, Dr Muecke discusses the key drivers of metabolic dysfunction which are creating a tidal wave of mental health ailments and chronic disease in our society.	Dr James Muecke AM, 2020 Australian of the Year, Eye Surgeon & Blindness Prevention Pioneer
10:35am – 10:55am	Break
11am – 11:55am	Panel session: Obesity Treatment	Moderator: Ricardo Gonçalves, MC Panellists: Natasha Robinson, The Australian Dr Nic Kormas, Senior Staff Specialist Endocrinologist & Obesity Physician Dr Robert McGrath, nib Theresa Thompson, WIN
12pm – 12:30pm	Separating fact from fiction in healthcare	Dr Ranjana Srivastava, Monash Health
12:30pm – 1pm	Lunch
1:05pm – 2:15pm	Panel session: How health funds can encourage members to live healthy lives (empowering the consumer)	Moderator: Ricardo Gonçalves, MC Panellists: Matthew Evans, Gourmet Farmer Dr Sam Manger, The GP Show Podcast Jacqueline Alwill, Brown Paper Nutrition Callum Hann, Chef, Author, Entrepreneur
2:20pm – 2:50pm	Mental health – a perspective on men and boys	Dr Zac Seidler, Movember
2:50pm – 3pm	Closing remarks	Dr Rachel David, PHA and Ricardo Gonçalves, MC
3:10pm	Close of Conference