HealthTech Talks, Lumina Podcast Series

As a clinician and researcher Professor Nick Ralph was passionate about preventing hypothermia. But it was his own personal experience with the condition that propelled Nick to research and design a solution to eradicate the ‘world’s most common serious adverse event in surgery’. Nick is now the Founder and Director of Thermal Armour and has created warming devices for soldiers injured during combat and for use during hospital surgical procedures. We spoke with Nick about his ground-breaking technologies and his mission to eradicate surgical hypothermia from hospitals across the globe.

The Child Development Service supports families and children across the Coast. The service has recently moved into a brand new fit-for-purpose location in Lumina, featuring quiet spaces and wall art created by patients, among a number of initiatives, to help their young patients feel more comfortable and engaged during their appointments. We spoke with the Medical Director Dr Francoise Butel about neurodivergence and the new space.  In this episode, hear about the fascinating stages of early childhood development, covering everything from language acquisition to social-emotional growth. With expert insights and practical tips, it's a must-listen for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to support the next generation.

CRT Imaging is Queensland's newest and most sophisticated radiology centre providing general imaging along with specialist cancer radiology and theranostic. In this episode of HealthTech talks, we talk to the expert team behind the brand-new state-of-the-art centre, within Proxima at Lumina Gold Coast, to find out the new technology detecting cancer, what makes it unique and how it supports patients on their cancer journey.

Our feet can tell us a lot about our health – just ask Professor James Charles. As a podiatrist, James is passionate about foot health, in particular when it comes to First Nations Peoples. Now as the Director of Griffith University’s First Nations Health Unit, James is focused on the broader health of Indigenous people and, using virtual reality, is helping future generations of health care professionals to understand culture so they can provide more culturally appropriate healthcare. We spoke with James in the lead up to National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners Day.

As an anatomical pathologist, Dr Admire Matsika spends a great deal of his working day looking through a microscope at placentas, and tissue samples from kidney, bladder and prostate tumours. But in the not too distant future, a microscope might not be part of Dr Matsika’s diagnostic toolbox. We spoke with Dr Matsika about what advances are ahead in the field of anatomical pathology and how this will benefit patients, the health system and pathologists.

If you don’t like going to the dentist, you need to listen to this episode of Healthtech Talks! That’s because we’re talking to dentist and entrepreneur Dr Padma Gadiyar who has developed an app that lets you access dental advice from the comfort of your own home. Among Dr Padma’s vision for her app, is that it improves access to dental care across the globe and helps decrease the number of children with tooth decay. 

A team of Gold Coast health professionals turned entrepreneurs is taking health care ‘Beyond the Clinic’ walls to optimise patient outcomes. Using digital technology and AI, the team has created an app that is revolutionising healthcare by allowing clinicians to engage with patients in between appointments while helping to drive time efficiency in medical practices. Find out more in the latest episode of Health Tech Talks with registered nurse and co-founder of Beyond the Clinic, Ali Stokes.  

It was a simple online pizza order that gave clinical psychologist Noam Dishon the idea to create an app that could keep his patients better engaged with access to support in between appointments. The app – Wellifiy - is now up and running, and is helping to improve outcomes for patient accessing support for mental health.

Ashley Hanger could not have predicted her latest career move. When the former journalist moved in with her former partner, and saw first-hand the daily struggles he experienced living with diabetes, she became so committed to making life easier for him and others, that she took a giant leap of faith and started her first business, Stripped Supply. Australia’s first diabetes subscription box automatically delivering medical supplies straight to people’s home, Stripped Supply also provides diabetes education making top-tier healthcare accessible to all. We spoke with Ash about her journey as a businesswoman and why she has become such a staunch advocate for people living with diabetes.