Dr Caroline
West

Speaker Profile

Dr Caroline West is one of Australia's best known doctors. Currently Dr Caroline is the health and fitness host of the Network 7 TV series Guide to the Good Life. Her past credits include Beyond Tomorrow (enjoyed by a global audience through the Discovery Channel), Good Medicine, Beyond 2000, 60 minutes, Sex/Life, Living Longer, Everybody and George Negus Tonight. Using her knowledge of health and fitness she has also presented several ABC TV specials.

Dr Caroline West also works in private medical practice specialising in healthy lifestyle medicine. As a medical practitioner she has extensive clinical experience helping clients make healthy changes for life. Her areas of expertise include work/life balance, stress management, healthy lifestyle, health and peak performance and preventative medicine. Dr Caroline remains committed to the latest developments in healthy lifestyle medicine believing that prevention is the key for better health. She is a leader in this field and communicates the latest in medical advances not only to her patients but also to a broader audience through her work as a media doctor, health broadcaster, corporate speaker and consultant.

Dr Caroline West is currently a lecturer in Lifestyle Medicine presenting workshops around Australia as part of the Southern Cross University Lifestyle Medicine and Health promotion unit. She is also a speaker and facilitator on Eduventures and Into the Blue, which are health modules on lifestyle and prevention for health professionals within the context of a walking or kayaking adventure. Dr Caroline was elected to the committee of the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association in 2010.

As a health journalist she has been a regular columnist for the Sun Herald, Good Medicine and ninemsn. She is currently the 'Doctors' Health' feature writer for Australian Doctor.Throughout her career she has maintained a commitment to preventative medicine, always encouraging people to enhance their wellbeing by translating their knowledge of health into action. Dr Caroline is also director of Healthy Difference, a health consultancy which provides advice, coaching, seminars and workshops for corporate and community based groups.

Dr Caroline's sanity savers include surfboard riding and kayaking, winning the Gold medal in the marathon kayaking event in her age division at the 2009 World Masters Championship. Dr Caroline is also passionate about music and has written for multiple ABC records and artists from Anne Kirkpatrick to the Crosby Sisters.

Dr Caroline holds a Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery from the University of NSW and on graduation was awarded the prize for most outstanding achievement in community medicine.

Dr Caroline West aims not only to inform but to inspire, always encouraging clients to put their knowledge into action.

Travels from New South Wales