The Future of Medicine: Preventative Healthcare

New Zealand's healthcare system is under immense pressure, grappling with a growing wave of chronic diseases and mental health challenges. The current healthcare model remains predominantly reactive, focused on treating symptoms with medications and procedures rather than preventing these conditions in the first place.

Join Keynote Speaker - Dr Glen Davies LIVE in Hawkes Bay

The upcoming Future of Medicine event in Hawke’s Bay seeks to address these challenges head-on, advocating for integrative prevention medicine and lifestyle-based treatments to create a more sustainable and proactive healthcare future.

Join us for this exclusive live seminar featuring Keynote speaker and GP of the year, Dr Glen Davies on Reversing Diabetes in Clinical Practice

Glen will explore the root causes of Type 2 Diabetes, the key biochemistry, and the nutritional and behavioural strategies used by Reversal NZ to help clients reverse diabetes, pre-diabetes, and maintain long-term metabolic health.

Also joined by Best Selling Author and Public Health Professor Grant Schofield as well as Behaviour Change Specialist Dr Louise Schofield.

What can I expect to learn and engage in?

The very latest evidence-based science and practice in preventative lifestyle medicine.
Practical tools to empower better health outcomes.
Proven strategies to reverse and sustain metabolic health.
The power of professional health coaching in practice.

How do I know if this event is right for me?

This is an unmissable event for health professionals and those aspiring for a career in health, including those thinking about a new purpose-filled career as a Professional Health Coach.

You might be working in the below industries (or similar):

Doctors, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, pharmacists, naturopaths, personal trainers, HR managers, or health coaches.

If you want to be at the cutting edge of the latest in evidence-based health outcomes, or are considering a career change as a Professional Health Coach, this event is for you.

Featuring headline speakers:

🔥 Prof Grant Schofield, Best-Selling Author and Professor of Public Health speaking on The Future of Medicine

🔥 Dr Glen Davies, Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner and GP of the Year 2021 speaking on Reversing Diabetes in Clinical Practice

🔥 Dr Louise Schofield, Behaviour Change Specialist and Entrepreneur speaking on Coaching Techniques to Drive Lasting Change

About Prof Grant Schofield

Professor of Public Health, Chief Science Officer PREKURE

Grant is a Professor of Public Health at Auckland University of Technology and Director of its Human Potential Centre, has dedicated his career to combating modern diseases. As former Chief Scientific Adviser to NZ's Ministry of Education, co-author of four best-selling books, and Chief Science Officer for PREKURE, his focus is on promoting long, healthy, fulfilling lives. Prof Grant champions the motto "be the best you can be," aiming to revolutionise the health system by prioritising wellness over sickness. Renowned for his innovative approach to nutrition, weight loss, physical activity mental health, and the science of human potential.

About Dr Glen Davies

General Practitioner & Lifestyle Medicine Physician

Dr Glen Davies is a GP specialist with dual fellowships in both general practice and lifestyle medicine. He is a passionate advocate of lifestyle approaches to reversing chronic disease. He has helped over 200 patients reverse their pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes, recognised for his work by being awarded the GP of the Year 2021 at the NZ Primary Care Awards. Becoming frustrated by failing to address prevention and by managing treatable conditions rather than aiming for cure, Glen's “why” is to make a real difference through 'Reversal NZ', a specialist GP clinic, focused on the reversal and prevention of metabolic illnesses and chronic disease using lifestyle medicine and the coach approach.

About Dr Louise Schofield

Professor Behaviour Change Specialist

Louise is co-founder and CEO of PREKURE, NZ's leading Professional Health Coaching education institute. With a PhD in behaviour change, Louise is a successful entrepreneur, previously spending 15 years leading businesses in the corporate wellbeing industry and developing behaviour change programs to achieve positive wellbeing outcomes. Louise’s mission is to inspire a change in medicine to be more preventative. She is passionate about eliminating the over-prescribing of medication that offers little or no benefit, poor nutritional advice and programs that don’t work, and for the medical community to embrace a lifestyle medicine approach.

Secure your spot now—spaces are limited!

Can’t make it to Hawke’s Bay? Don’t miss these upcoming 2025 Future of Medicine events:

• Auckland – Dr James Muecke, 27th May, B:HIVE

• Dunedin – Dr Lily Fraser, 11th June, University of Otago

• Hamilton – Dr Matthew Phillips, 20th August, WINTEC

Join us at a location near you and be part of the revolution in preventative and lifestyle medicine!

Contact the host of Future of Medicine 2025: Hawkes Bay