Dr Caroline West Travels from Sydney, NSW

Topics

Change Management
Ethics
Facilitator
Female Speaker
Health
Lifestyle
Motivational
Relationships
Science
Society / Social Trends
Stress Management
Work Life Balance

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Dr Caroline West specialises in Healthy Lifestyle Medicine and is one of Australia’s best known doctors. As a medical practitioner she has extensive clinical experience helping clients make healthy changes for life. Dr Caroline aims not only to inform but inspire, always encouraging her clients and audiences to put their knowledge into action. Her areas of expertise include healthy lifestyle, stress management, better sleep, nutrition and weight management, happiness and positive psychology. Her philosophy is simple: a healthy lifestyle anchors wellness, boosts energy, longevity and peak performance. She has been described as a “medico who brings solutions to the real health issues of real people”. She joined East Sydney Doctors in 1988 and she has also worked at Holdsworth House Medical Practice, Bondi Road Doctors and as a doctor in aboriginal health doing remote locum work in the Northern Territory.

As a leader in the field of healthy lifestyle and preventative medicine Dr West communicates the latest in medical advances not only to her clients but also to a broader audience through her work as a media doctor. Currently Dr Caroline is the health and fitness host for Guide to the Good Life. She has also been a TV presenter for other top rating programs including the internationally acclaimed Beyond Tomorrow series, Good Medicine, Beyond 2000, 60 minutes and George Negus Tonight. As Director of the healthy consultancy group Healthy Difference, Dr Caroline West also provides advice, coaching, seminars, strategic health planning and workshops and keynotes for corporate and community based groups.

Dr Caroline is currently the President of the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association (ALMA). She is an adjunct Professional Fellow at Southern Cross University and consultant lecturer at their School of Lifestyle Medicine and Health Promotion Unit. She holds a Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery from the University of NSW. On graduation she was awarded the prize for most outstanding achievement in community medicine. She has undertaken extensive post graduate training in the areas of lifestyle and preventative medicine, nutrition, weight management and counselling/ psychology.

Dr Caroline is an ambassador for cycling in the City of Sydney appearing in the "Everything's connected, Caroline" series. She enjoys keeping active with surfboard riding, cycling to work and kayaking. She was the World Masters gold medalist in the marathon kayaking 2009. She also has a love of art, music and the ukulele.

Caroline is also a vocal champion of preventative medicine and has been an ambassador for Global World Sight Day promoting prevention of vision loss.

Keynote Titles

Little Changes, Big Results
Power Sleep
Healthy Balance
The Science of Happiness

Testimonials

Dr Caroline West is a polished, professional and engaging speaker. Her topic ‘Health and Wellness at any age’ completely resonated with our audience and they absolutely loved her presentation! Caroline used the right amount of interaction with our audience and gave them practical tips they could take away and use in their day to day lives, while also sharing some of her own personal stories. Many of our customers rated her as the best speaker yet! Caroline was great to work with in the planning stages – always meeting our deadlines and seeking feedback so she could ensure her presentation was exactly what we were after. She also worked with us on a webinar and has great TV skills. Caroline was an absolute pleasure to work with and definitely contributed to the huge success of our event!

Commonwealth Bank

Dr West developed a highly engaging, interactive program which was tailored to the needs of our team. All members of the team were motivated by the information presented and the way the program was delivered. She is a highly motivational presenter and has a wealth of information to support the all-round health and well- being of a workplace team. I would highly recommend this program to anyone looking to improve the productivity and effectiveness of individuals and teams.

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