Sam Mitchell

Hawthorn Senior Coach

The current Senior Coach at Hawthorn, AFL Premiership Player and Captain, Brownlow Medalist and All Australian, Sam Mitchell, delivers brilliant insights into his own career and what it takes to succeed at the highest level.

Sam Mitchell played 329 AFL games, won a raft of accolades and awards, moved into coaching and has been on football's major TV and radio Programs. He shares the importance of teamwork and leadership and his - What's the chance moments throughout his life and career.


Cameron Mackenzie

Four Pillars Gin

From Olympian to wine maker, to gin distillery owner to producer of hand-sanitiser, Cameron is an adaptable entrepreneur who seeks enjoyment from the everyday challenges in life. Todays challenge is discovering the perfect partner tonic for his award-winning Gin. He is, quite simply, the heart and soul of Four Pillars. Cam is an Olympian, having run in the 4x400m at 1996 Games. He is the distiller and operations guru of Four Pillars Distillery which in 2019 was named the world learning gin producer by the IWSC in London. His passion for Gin production stemmed from his fifteen years in the wine industry where he learned about flavour, balance, palate and people. Along with his two friends Stuart and Matt they found a niche market in Australia that had been untapped.

Dr April Armstrong

Business for Doctors

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April is a UWA graduate of Medicine and works in General Practice in Western Australia. She is passionate about the business of medicine. She is the founder of the Business for Doctors concept and social media group. April was awarded the WA Telstra Business Woman of the Year 2015 in the start-up category and her rural practice, Collins Street Surgery nominated for the WA Telstra Business Awards 2015.

She has developed strategies and methods in investing and business management. As an owner of two medical practices and numerous investments she brings 25 years of business and investing experience to the team. April actively supports medical students and overseas trained doctors during their transition into the Australia medical system

Julian Muldoon

1Group Property Advisory

After using a buyer’s agent himself in his early investing years and studying financial planning, Julian sought to enter the property industry with a business that would do things differently. His success with residential and commercial property acquisitions nationally and vast experience in the corporate world meant he had a compelling vision of what a great real estate advisory & research business should look like.

As Director and Co-founder of 1Group Julian enjoys the fast pace and constantly changing landscape of the property industry and feels privileged to lead a team of industry experts supporting doctors with some of life’s biggest decisions.

Evan Tsipas

RSM Australia

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Evan is a Director of the RSM Australia Financial Services in Melbourne. Evan joined RSM in 2002 and has significant experience advising clients on investments, risk protection, superannuation, retirement planning and aged care matters.

He combines practical experience and postgraduate qualifications to assist clients in making informed decisions to achieve their financial goals and objectives.

Karla Treweek

RSM Australia

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Karla is based in Ballarat, working within RSM's Business Advisory division. Karla advises medical practices on how to enhance business growth and profitability. In doing so, she helps them realise their full potential through a range of improvement and strategic outcomes.

Karla is motivated to always deliver practical outcomes in a timely matter to help her clients achieve their goals.

Robert Miano

RSM Australia

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Robert is a Partner of the Audit & Assurance division in Melbourne. Robert’s experience covers the responsibility for external audit functions, the review of financial systems and controls, financial analysis, assessment and reporting.

He has in excess of 25 years’ experience conducting audits of a number of entities across a broad range of industries including the health sector.

Oliver Gaunt

RSM Australia

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Paul Jarvis

BFD Finance

Paul is a Director of BFD Finance who are a specialist mortgage brokering service for Medical Practitioners. He has over 28 years’ experience in the Banking and Finance industry having held senior roles with ANZ and NAB in addition to experience gained in the UK with Zurich. Paul’s skills and experience are diverse having worked with clients ranging from individuals, small to medium businesses, large privately-owned groups and ASX listed companies and across a variety of professions and industries. Paul’s approach is simple – to listen, understand and provide help so clients can achieve their personal and business financial goals.

Jay Bhatia

AutoMed Systems Pty Ltd

Jay Bhatia is the founder of Prolific You, a digital marketing agency that specialises in the digital success of healthcare professions. Prolific You is not your standard agency; Jay and Prolific You have a comprehensive understanding of the rules and regulations associated with being a certified clinic, and uses these insights to provide proven methods to grow your brand and clinic online.

Jay has helped multiple clinics achieve growth and success with their online presence leveraging digital marketing techniques from rebuilding and redesigning websites, integrating booking platforms, creating content, social media and appearing at the top of Google to increase patient acquisition.

Louis Putter

AutoMed Systems Pty Ltd

Louis has dedicated the last 28 years to the IT industry with 20 years working on large scale projects within the banking and telecommunication sector. He co-founded AutoMed Systems 7 years ago with Dr Peter Demaio and has been working closely with hundreds of GP Practices across Australia to achieve the highest level of automation and process improvement.

Craig Hong

Hillhouse Legal Partners

One of three Directors with Hillhouse Legal Partners, Craig joined the team in 2004 and relishes the challenge of helping clients across all sectors and business sizes at every stage of the business life-cycle. Whether it is in the initial stages of establishing a start-up by eliminating risk, clarifying goals and achieving solutions to growing a business through operation and process improvements and merger and acquisition activity right through to exit strategies such as sale or business succession.

Craig has built a reputation for his pragmatic approach to commercial law and has a strong reputation for his work in commercial contract drafting and legal business advisory work.

Craig is experienced across a broad range of industries but has developed a particularly strong practice at all levels in the medical and allied health sector. Craig’s approach is well suited to the medical sector which requires fast, tailored advice to clients who work long hours and are time-poor.

Danny Haydon

Brentnalls SA

Danny’s trusted advice, includes business planning, governance, HR management, quality and risk management, infrastructure development, and developing innovative business models. He has been a business consultant since 2008 and heads up the Health Division, focussing on value adding to better enable health-related businesses and services to achieve their business financial goal.

Danny assists business owners by defining their goals through effective facilitation and collaboration. In addition, Danny works with the owners to improve business operations and drive improved financial performance.

Matthew Holden

Brentnalls SA

Through years of experience, Matthew has developed a strong specialisation with clients in the Medical and Allied Health sectors. Matthew has enjoyed working with a range of clients from Specialist Medical, Veterinary, Dental and General Practices, as well as working closely with Practitioners themselves to provide a tailored approach to their needs.

Matthew enjoys working with Practitioners to simplify their tax and compliance obligations, improve practice and business processes and set and plan & achieve strategic goals.

Mark O'Flynn

Oxlade Financial

Mark O’Flynn is the Managing Director & Principal Adviser at Oxlade Financial. He has been in the industry since 2005, and has been practicing as an Independent Advisor since 2015. Mark was a finalist in the FPA Certified Financial Planner® Professional of the Year Award in 2021.

Mark holds both the Certified Financial Planner® and Chartered Financial Analyst® qualifications. He also has a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Accounting), and has completed a Diploma in Financial Planning. Mark is a member of the Financial Planning Association of Australia’s Policy & Regulations Committee, and also has specialist SMSF Accreditation.

His extensive qualifications and experience are coupled with a true passion for improving the lives of his valued clients. Mark has worked with most of his clients for many years, and he places great value on these long-term, rewarding relationships. Mark is driven to provide transparent and holistic advice, and seeks to apply his knowledge to help families have a better financial future. As a husband, father and business owner, he understands the financial complexities and pressures that families can face, and recognises the difference that good advice can make.

Simon Hepson

Oxlade Financial

Simon Hepson is a Senior Financial Adviser at Oxlade Financial. Simon has 9 years’ experience as a Financial Adviser, and has been an Independent Adviser since 2018. As well as holding his Certified Financial Planner® qualification, Simon has also completed a Masters in Financial Planning and a Bachelor of Business (Finance).

Simon is driven to help his clients to live life to the fullest by managing and optimising their finances. He finds great satisfaction in helping his clients to achieve their goals and improve their quality of life, as well as helping them to navigate challenging situations that may be relevant to their financial position.

Simon is an experienced and ethical operator, who brings great value to his clients as 3 their Financial Adviser.


Heath Stewart

ECOVIS Clark Jacobs

Heath is a Director of the firm and has over 20 years’ experience in practice, working in business services, taxation, audit and consulting.


He has developed a specialisation in the medical and dental industries but actively engages with clients in a broad range of industries including publishing, professional consulting, legal practices, building, construction, civil contracting and manufacturing.


Heath also supervises the firms’ audit and assurance engagements, including litigation support and valuation.

He likes to work together with his clients tailoring our service to the client’s specific individual needs which includes industry KPI comparison, forecasting, projections, financing and efficient tax structuring.

Scott Maggs

MetaOptima

Just sold my beard for a million dollars to help fund the world's first, AI powered national skin check program. Quite literally, making skin cancer history.

If you'd like to be part of it please get in touch.

Chris Smeed

Cubiko

Chris Smeed is the co-founder and CEO of Brisbane-based software startup Cubiko, an innovative platform dedicated to helping general practices gain insights into their business.

For the last seven years, Chris has seen first hand the opportunities that can be realised through harnessing the power of practice data, having worked previously as Director of Finance and Business Development at Inala Primary Care. Chris is a surveyor for AGPAL and a Director for a number of companies across both the not-for-profit and commercial start-up space and is renowned for his enthusiasm, high energy, commitment, and proactive approach to making practice life healthier.

Eric Lowenstein

Tego

Eric Lowenstein is CEO of Tego, a specialist medical indemnity insurer for medical practitioners in Australia. Eric’s qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in business administration and law from Macquarie University; a master’s degree from UNSW in law and management; and an MBA from AGSM. Before founding Tego, Eric’s career spanned both insurance and legal services and he held positions at Aon, Mega Capital, Liberty International Underwriters and Norton Rose Fulbright. Eric is actively involved in several community organisations and is a board member of the Wolper Hospital.

David Piacentino

Allied Insurance Australia

David Piacentino is Director and co-founder of Allied Insurance Australia, a specialist professional general insurance advisory firm servicing the insurance and risk management needs of the healthcare industry. David’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Business in Financial and Risk Management and a Diploma in Financial Services. Before founding Allied Insurance Australia, David’s 20-year insurance career has spanned both insurance broking and direct insurance, having held senior roles with one of the world’s largest insurance & risk management brokerage firms as well as with an established specialised major health and allied health insurer, working closely with some of Australia’s pre-eminent healthcare professions.

Kellie Dell'Oro

Meridian Lawyers

Kellie draws on more than 20 years of experience devoted exclusively to insurance and health law. Throughout her career Kellie has acted for the Victorian insurer of public hospitals, many private hospitals (both directly and through insurers such as MarketForm), pathology companies and medical and allied health practitioners (through insurers such as MIPS, Avant and Guild Insurance).

Over many years Kellie has acted for large public liability insurers (such as Wesfarmers General Insurance Limited, GIO General Ltd, CGU Insurance and London Underwriters), utility companies, brokers, claims handling agents and large corporations (such as Federation Centres, Boral Ltd and the GEO Group of companies). Kellie was selected on the specialist panel for coronial investigations for all Victorian Government Departments from 2009 to 2015.

Apart from her dedicated client work, Kellie is deeply involved in training and improvement across the healthcare and insurance law industries. As co-author of successful books, risk management registers and training programs, she combines deep legal knowledge with a passion for helping others.

Kellie has been recognised in Best Lawyers Australia as a leading lawyer in Insurance Law since 2017 and in Medical Negligence since 2019. In the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers, Kellie was selected as ‘Lawyer of the Year’, by her peers, for her work in Medical Negligence in Melbourne.

Dr David Williams

Hoxton MPM

David is Managing Director at Hoxton MPM. A Neurologist and founder of Australia’s largest private Neurology Practice. With these practical insights, David designed a system of scalable efficient administration processes that are central to the operation of all medical practices. Motivated to help more doctors avoid problems that he had experienced starting and running his practice, David studied leadership and corporate governance before launching Hoxton MPM: to provide certainty, flexibility and a premium level of service to specialist doctors Australia-wide.

Emily Elst

Hoxton MPM

Emily is the General Manager at Hoxton Medical Practice Management. Emily and her team provide comprehensive outsourced administration and management services for doctors and practice owners. Providing them the freedom to focus on their clinical practice with the certainty that their business is operating efficiently. Emily has worked in management and the health care industry for over twenty two years, including roles in practice management, training and education, medical software, sales, development and marketing. Emily has broad experience in the assessment and establishment of new practices. Her role at Hoxton MPM utilises her capabilities in change management, IT services, staff education and high level service delivery.

Stephen Price

Integer Financial Group

Stephen will dissect the ever changing landscape of Income Protection and highlight the remaining options to be covered for your specific occupation as a medical professional. Learn what you should be covering for Life, TPD, Trauma, Income Protection and Key Person and have premium structure explained for long term affordability.

Melanie Gordon

Perfect Practice

Melanie Gordon is a Designer with Perfect Practice and Levitch Design Australia. As an emerging designer, she has strong interests in both heritage and contemporary constructions, sustainable design outcomes for residential, educational, and commercial properties, and in creating narratives within both private spaces and public domains.

Rami Weiss

HealthShare


Rami is a Co-Founder of HealthShare, a leading Australian health technology company whose platform helps ensure that the right health information is delivered to the right patient or doctor at the right time. Through HealthShare’s innovative digital solutions, patients and doctors get access to relevant information so better-informed health decisions can ultimately be made.

Rami’s passion lies at the intersection of product, strategy and innovation, with an underlying belief that technology, when it is fully harnessed, can deliver a more sustainable and effective healthcare system, ultimately leading to far superior patient health outcomes.

Andrew Whitaker

Medical Messages on Hold


With over 10 years experience looking after the needs of medical practices and guiding many of them through the minefield of Covid-19, Andrew can help all practices appear professional to their callers. Ask how your practice can improve it's efficiency or market to callers in an environment that is often perceived as being of little importance. Let Andrew help turn a weakness in your practice into a strength.

Dr Cate Howell

Dr Cate Howell Mental Health Education and Wellbeing

With over 30 years of training and experience in the health area, and a passion for mental health and wellbeing, Dr Cate’s focus is on education for health professionals and the community. Cate had a year 2000 Churchill Fellowship, completed a PhD on depression in 2010, and in 2012 was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to mental health.

Cate aims to share knowledge and useful tools with professionals and the community to improve mental health and wellbeing. She currently works in her own business with clinical and education arms, and she works with various organisations as a Medical Education Consultant and lecturer. Cate has authored six books on mental health topics, and her holistic and practical approach is evident in all of her pursuits.

Ian Lowe

Clinimetrix

Ian Lowe is the CEO of CMH Practice Management (CMHPM).

CMHPM manages medical centres under the Castle Hill Medical Centre and Castle Medical brand and is the developer of Clinimetrix, Pemelo and CMx Connect software.

Ian has a history of creating business growth. At Sony he was ultimately responsible for 3000 dealers, 2500 SKU’s and $300M of revenue as the head of Consumer AV.

After a short stint in Sports Marketing, he moved to the executive team at Rooty Hill RSL, one of Australia’s biggest clubs. During his time at the RSL membership numbers grew, a new gym went from empty to 5000 members and loyalty programs and data analytics were introduced.

He has been working for Castle Medical for over seven years and in that time has created significant growth for the business including:

  • Relocation and expansion of the original practice,

  • Addition of new sites under various brands,

  • Creation of the management services business,

  • Introduction of financial and clinical analytics,

  • Development of telehealth applications and;

  • Operation of the Castle Hill Respiratory Clinic which provided over 60,000 vaccinations, all whilst continuing to maintain strong profits.

Ian has a BE in Electronics, a Masters of Management and is an avid golfer. He is now looking for further opportunities across the country to replicate the successful medical service offerings in Sydney.

Sophie Piron

Australian Association of Practice Management

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Panel Speakers

Dr Mary Barson
Real Life Medicine

Dr Mary Barson is a rural GP and entrepreneur based on the Victorian Surf Coast. Dr Mary has particular interests in nutritional medicine, lifestyle medicine and psychological medicine. She has forged her love of metabolic health, compassion centred care and real food nutrition into a successful online health coaching business, Real Life Medicine. Along with her fabulous business partner, Dr Lucy Burns, Real Life Medicine empowers people to reclaim their health and regain control of their weight naturally and sustainably. Dr Mary is a mother to two kids aged nine years and two months, and has worked hard to make medicine a sustainable and fulfilling career for her as a working mum.

Dr Rodney Aziz
MBBS, FRACGP, FCPCA, DipSkinCancer, MAICD

Graduate of the University of Melbourne in 1995 (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery). Although now in General Practice, I actually started my career in Emergency Medicine. I worked as a Senior Doctor/CMO in Emergency Medicine for over eleven years. I ultimately decided that I wanted to move on to General Practice where I could build life-long relationships with my patients, and I obtained a fellowship with the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2010. I has also obtained a further fellowship with the Cosmetic Physicians College of Australasia, a Diploma of Skin Cancer Surgery, and am a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

I am the Founder, 100% Sole Owner and Principal GP of Family Doctor Pty Ltd - a group of 70 medical and dental practices across 5 states (Vic, ACT, NSW, Qld and WA) around Australia founded in 2008 and still growing well. The practices are operated as independent practices, each with a practice manager responsible for the day to day operations, and a central support office.

Dr Catherine Bacus
Alevia Medical Weight Loss

Dr Catherine Bacus is founder and Director of Alevia Medical Weight Loss - a group of primary care led obesity management clinics in Melbourne and Adelaide - and she is past Chair of the RACGP Specific Interest Group - Obesity Management. Catherine has also cofounded the Valita Obesity Management Solution - to help other GP practices to launch an obesity management service within their own practices.

Dr Elaine Sung
Doctors of South Melbourne

Elaine enjoys the full spectrum of general practice while having special interests in:

  • Mental health

  • Women’s health

  • Kid’s health

  • Pregnancy care and shared care

  • Chronic and complex health needs

Elaine began her training at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital after graduating from the University of Sydney. She completed her fellowship with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Melbourne.

Elaine also undertook extra training in shared care (pregnancy care). Going on to practise in South Yarra for a decade, she firmly established herself as one of inner Melbourne’s most respected and in-demand GPs.