HealthTech Talks - Lumina Podcast Series

BioSpine, a game changing Qld-led technology to help recover movement and sensation after paralysis.

Description: Like the entire BioSpine team, Claudio Pizzolato lives and breathes his work. And it’s easy to understand why when your aim is to see people with spinal cord injury walk again. Claudio and the team, based at Griffith University Gold Coast, have a variety of engineers and clinicians working alongside industrial designers and game designers are making remarkable progress with trial participants experiencing unanticipated benefits.

Preventative Healthcare: the Next Wave in Removing Barriers to get on top of your Health and Wellness

Turning the conversation from reactive to proactive when talking about your health and wellness journey. Order and receive results to your phone and track over months and years to understand your body. A natural entrepreneur, Thor set out to remove the barriers around testing and help give people more ownership of their health. The result - Bloody Good Tests – an award-winning healthtech start up offering a pioneering approach to preventive health.

Eradicate hypothermia: Wearable warming revolutionising the healthcare industry

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.

Neurodivergence in Children’s Health: What is it, Symptoms, Where to get help.

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.

Cancer diagnostic and treatment has evolved with Cancer Radiology and Therapy (CRT)

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.