Episode 22

Purpose of Health

Purpose of Wealth Podcast

About the episode

So often in our busy lives health comes second. But when we ask our guests what matters most at the end of each podcast episode, health is one of the top responses.

And two fundamental contributors to health – what goes on in your guts and in your lungs – remain a mystery to most of us.

In this episode host Narelle Hooper gets the goods on guts and lungs from two global specialists from Victoria’s largest NFP private hospital group, Epworth Health.

Professor Andrew Metz, a gastroenterologist, interventional endoscopist, and director of the Jreissati Pancreatic Centre, and Dr Jazmin Eckhaus, a thoracic surgeon and robotics assisted surgery specialist share their expert insights.

They talk about what you need to know to stay on top of your gut and lung health, key questions to ask of your surgeon, look at the role of stress and diet and how to separate fact from fake in a social media world swimming with misinformation.

Plus some simple ways for you and your family to stay healthy so you can look after what matters most.

Featuring

Narelle Hooper - Host

During more than 25 years as a business and finance journalist and editor Narelle has worked for Australia’s leading media groups including the ABC, Fairfax Media and SBS TV. She’s a former Editor of the Australian Financial Review’s BOSS Magazine and was founding co-chair of the Financial Review’s Women of Influence Awards.

Narelle is also a member of the board of the The Ethics Centre. She has held a number of non executive director roles over the past decade, including with the Tasmanian Development Board, the Documentary Australia Foundation and with women's entrepreneurship accelerator SBE Australia, which runs the Springboard Enterprises program.

Professor Andrew Metz - Guest

Professor Andrew Metz is a gastroenterologist and interventional endoscopist and Director of the Jreissati Pancreatic Centre, leading this Centre of excellence in research, clinical care and patient experience for people with pancreatic cancer. He is the Head of Endoscopy at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, having been previously Head of Endoscopy at Cambridge University Hospital in the UK. Professor Metz underwent fellowships at Westmead Hospital Sydney and Cambridge UK and has a particular interest in medical pancreatology, running a multi-disciplinary pancreatic clinic. He is an Australasian Pancreatic Club Council and International Association of Pancreatology scientific committee member as well as being CI for multiple national and international studies. Professor Metz’s main research interests are the screening and early detection in pancreatic cancer, including the APRISE national pancreatic screening program, investigator led multi-centre drug RCTs and novel endoscopic devices for diagnostics and therapeutics, including confocal endomicroscopy, and EUS-RFA.

Dr Jazmin Eckhaus - Guest

Dr Jazmin Eckhaus is an Australian-trained cardiothoracic surgeon with a sub-specialty thoracic surgical practice. She has completed advanced training in thoracic oncology, chest trauma, and minimally invasive techniques, including robotic and VATS (video-assisted thoracoscopic) surgery.
She has a special interest in minimally invasive thoracic surgery, lung cancer and mediastinal disease. Dr Eckhaus is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) and a clinical lecturer at the University of Melbourne. In addition to her surgical practice, she has a Master’s degree in Clinical Ethics from the University of Oxford, where she focused on the ethics of consent. Outside of her work at Epworth she has public appointments at Eastern Health and St Vincent’s Hospital.