International and Australian Invited Speakers

International Speaker

Dr Cathy Price

Dr Cathy Price is a consultant in Pain Medicine at Southampton University Hospitals Trust in the UK. In 2003 in response to significant pressures on the services the local health community took the innovative step of shifting specialist pain management care out of hospital and adopting a whole systems approach to management. For this Cathy and her manager received a Medical Futures Innovation Award for Leadership in 2005 from McKinsey.

She has been a member of the British Pain Society Council 2006-9 and is currently an executive member of the UK Chronic Pain Policy Coalition. She assisted with production of the Chief Medical Officers report on pain in 2009.

She is also currently vice chair of the clinical leadership arm of the local health board.

Australian and New Zealand Invited Speakers

Professor Brian Broom

Professor Brian Broom is a ‘philosopher physician,’ with a passion for ‘whole person’ approaches to illness. He leads the unique post-graduate MindBody Healthcare Diploma and Masters Program at AUT University, Auckland.   On the ‘body’ side of his work he is a Consultant Physician in Clinical Immunology (in the Department of Immunology at Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand), but is consulted for many types of physical illness by people wanting a clinician who will look at both physical and non-physical factors that may be playing a part in their illnesses.  On the ‘mind’ side he is a New Zealand-

registered psychotherapist and has long experience training and supervising psychotherapists working with patients with a wide range of physical conditions.  His psychotherapy style is eclectic and strongly interpersonal.  He has written two books for clinicians emphasising how the person’s personal life story relates to the emergence and progression of illness and disease.

Professor Garry Egger

Dr Garry Egger MPH, PhD has worked in public, corporate and clinical health for nearly 4 decades. He is the author of 30 books (including four texts) over 150 scientific articles and numerous popular media articles on health and fitness. He is an Adjunct Professor of Health Sciences at Southern Cross and Deakin Universities and the University of South Australia, and an Advisor to the World Health Organisation and several Government and corporate bodies in chronic disease prevention. In the 1990s Dr Egger initiated the GutBusters, men’s waist loss program, the first of its kind in the world, which has now developed into the Professor Trim’s Weight Loss Program for men. He is one of the initiators of the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association and runs training programs in Lifestyle Medicine for doctors and allied health professionals.