Research, advisory and publishing for Australian health

Dr Chris Mitchell AM, FAICD is co-founder and principal of Medius Global and a Rural General Practitioner and Rural Generalist with more than 35 years of experience in Northern NSW. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Past President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He was previously Head of Adoption, Benefits and Change at the National eHealth Transition Authority (NEHTA). He has served on numerous health sector boards, including the RACGP, NPS MedicineWise, Therapeutic Guidelines Ltd, The Rural Doctors Network and North Coast GP Training. Chris was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2013 for services to general practice and received a Rural Doctors Network Rural Medical Service Award in 2025.

Kate Marie is the founder of Medius Global and a business development, sales and communications strategist with over 20 years of experience in Australian health. Her background spans nursing, senior consulting roles across health NFPs, medical colleges, primary care, digital health and medtech. She advises health organisations on go-to-market strategy, stakeholder engagement, partnership development and market entry, directs commissioned research programs, and writes and edits across the scope of Medius publishing activities. She co-authored Fast Living, Slow Ageing with Professor Merlin Thomas (25,000+ copies sold) and co-designed SLOWBot, an AI coaching chatbot for healthy ageing published with Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy (ACM Digital Library, 2018).

Kerron is a health consultant with over 25 years of operational and executive management experience across healthcare and broader business sectors, with particular depth in regional and rural health service delivery. Her focus is primary care and urgent care, including the establishment, management and optimisation of general practices and Urgent Care Clinics in regional settings. Her consultancy work covers health and infrastructure planning, feasibility assessments, economic modelling and practice optimisation for communities outside metro catchments. Kerron is an accredited assessor with Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited (AGPAL) and co-author of Urgent care in the community: an observational study (Journal of Health Organization and Management, 2021). She serves as Board Member and Treasurer for Healthy Ageing Partnerships and Maroochy Neighbourhood Centre.

General practitioner with over 30 years' experience and former owner of a successful network of practices in South Brisbane. Former Vice President of the RACGP and Rose-Hunt Award recipient, Immediate Past Chair of the RACGP Queensland Faculty, and former Chair of General Practice Supervisors Australia. Specialises in practice quality improvement, medical education and using practice data to drive decision-making and optimal patient outcomes.

Tyson Reynolds is a public health expert and co-founder of New Frontier Health, a healthtech and consulting company servicing more than 150 Australian healthcare practices. He designed and built both the platforms and operations behind them, facilitating more than 5,000 multidisciplinary case conferences between health providers belonging to 22 different disciplines. He has negotiated enterprise agreements with multi-site general practice groups, national allied health practices and multiple national professional sports teams. He is an academic, having undertaken postgraduate research in general practice and public health at UNSW and Griffith University and holds further postgraduate health qualifications from La Trobe University and Torrens University. He is currently chief investigator for large-scale collaborative research examining multidisciplinary healthcare across 100 different sites. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Health Executives and the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association.

Adam Mazzaferro is a corporate and commercial lawyer (BA, LLB, Grad. Dip. LP) with over 20 years of experience advising medical and health businesses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, corporate advisory and structured banking and finance. Alongside his private practice as Partner at MillerPrince, he has eight years of in-house experience, including as General Counsel and CEO of a medical centre group that grew from 2 to 12 practices during his tenure, and as General Counsel and key adviser to one of NSW and Queensland's largest pathology providers. His sector experience covers primary care, pathology, radiology, pharmacy, private hospitals, NDIS and allied health. He is admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia.

Rural GP and past President of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia. Experience in medical education, governance and rural health advocacy. Awarded AM in 2008.