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Dr Tom Mulholland
Can you turn your life around simply by changing your mind?
Dr Tom did and from his experience, he has created a life-changing toolkit so that you can too.
The Healthy Thinking® approach helps people live the life they dream. Dr Tom has survived a Tsunami, divorce, single parenthood, the dot com crash, has even been stabbed by home invaders yet he still has a smile on his face. Dr Tom has influenced tens of thousands of people worldwide to find a better way to be, with his Healthy Thinking® approach.
Yes! You can make crucial changes in your thinking that will change the outcome of most situations - not just in times of crisis but in every part of your life.
Dr Tom, with a First Class Honours degree in Molecular biology and a Medical Doctorate, has had an amazing career that has also included being a Forest Ranger, Pilot and Entrepreneur. He still works part time as a Doctor in a busy Emergency Department of a hospital.
In spite of his impressive CV Dr Tom learned through personal experience that life sometimes serves us lemons.
Dr Tom Mulholland DOB 10.2.62
Educational Qualifications
- B Sc (Hons) 1st Division 1st Class. University of Canterbury Molecular Genetics
- MB ChB University of Otago 1989
- Post Graduate Diploma Sports Medicine 1994
In Progress
- Post Graduate Certificate in REBT
Current Appointments
- Honorary Lecturer Dept of Psychological Medicine Auckland University School of Medicine
- Locum Senior Registrar/ MOSS Auckland Hospital Adult Emergency Department
- Locum Senior Medical officer Taranaki Base Hospital
- GP Locum Oneroa Accident and Medical Centre Waiheke Island
- Chairman Health Intelligence Ltd: HIQ JV Capital and Coast DHB and Taranaki DHB 2003-current Shared Services organisation with Capital and Coast DHB and Tarnaki DHB. Annual Budget $19 million; Staff 130
- Elected Member Taranaki District Health Board 2000-2006
- Taranaki Medical Foundation 2001 - current
- Director: Healthy Thinking Institute
Previous Appointments
- Chairman LABCare Taranaki DHB Pathology Services 2001-2006
- Vice Chairman Taranaki District Health Board Hospital Advisory Committee 2001-2004
- CEO Doctor Global Ltd 1997- 2001
- Founding Clinical Director White Cross Taranaki 1995-1998
- General Practitioner and Partner Vivian Medical Centre New Plymouth 1994-2000
- Orthopaedic Registrar Taranaki Base Hospital 1992
- Locum Medical Officer Chatham Islands Hospital 2003
- Senior House Officer Christchurch Hospital 1991
- House Surgeon Taranaki Base Hospital 1990
- Civil Aviation Authority: Designated Medical Examiner 1996-1999
Recent applicable Conferences
- World Congress of Neuropsychiatry Sydney 2006
- Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (SIOP) San Francisco 2008
- Workshop Half day "World Class E-learning" at SIOP 2008
- Microsoft Health Users Group conference, MSHuge Brussels 2000
Significant Achievements/Awards
- Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Most innovate business 1997 White Cross
- Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Best Medium sized business Doctor Global
Professional Societies/Service/Other Activities
- Member International Neuro-Psychiatry Association 2006/2007
- National Speaker Association 2005 current
- Delegate 6th World Congress of Neuro-Psychiatry: Sydney 2006
Teaching
- Medical Student Psychological medicine teaching program 2008 Auckland School of Medicine
- Taranaki Base Hospital RMO Teaching Program 2002 to current. Teaching House Surgeons and Registrars Healthy Thinking®, and strategies to reduce stress in the workplace.
- Sovereign Insurance. Year long teaching program to staff on Healthy Thinking®, some basic neuroscience and physiology. Basis of CBT and connection with stress and performance. 2006/7
- ACC Series of workshops to senior management in Wellington and Healthy Thinking® Champions program in ACC North Harbour Branch. Healthy Thinking® and stress, physiology and some neuroscience. Also cardiovascular and attitudinal health for prevention.
- Microsoft/Hewlett Packard and Telecom Business Club Speaker 2004. Lecture tour of New Zealand in 14 Cities teaching business people about Health, Attitude, Stress and performance.
- Healthy Thinking® Schools Project. Waitara High School. Five year project training staff and students principles of Healthy Thinking®. Waitara High School to become first Healthy Thinking® School.
- Commonwealth Bank Executive Leaders Course. Teaching top 70 leaders in bank basis of Healthy Thinking®. Workshops on stress, fatigue and prevention of disease by attitudinal change. Emotional algebra and Attitude Profiling
- Work and Income 3 year project getting sickness beneficiaries back to work by changing their attitude. Teaching basic life skills, behavioural change and CBT.
- Over 1000 hours in the past 5 years running teaching workshops on Healthy Thinking®, stress, biological effects and cognitive strategies to avoid illness.
Career Research Specialties:
Undergraduate
As an undergraduate at Otago University I had a strong interest in mental health research. I chose to do 2 pieces of original research.
- Reminiscence in The Elderly - a case control study I designed matching rest home and domiciled people in their own home to look at the difference Reminiscing made to their adaptation to old age. As a 3rd year medical student with Professor John Campbell as my supervisor. Won the New Zealand Essay prize in Geriatrics.
- Suicide: Is it Preventable or Predictable - 5th year medical student project - 10 year review of suicides that had been seen by the Crisis team in Christchurch, looking for any warning signs that may have predicted or prevented suicide.
Graduate
- Diploma of Sports medicine - reviewed Head Injury in Rugby Players with and without headgear.
- Healthy Thinking institute - collected on line data from approximately 2000 individuals answering qualitative and quantitative questions around attitude, behaviour emotions and stress at home and in the workplace. Formed the basis of the 10 Attitude profiles with Antidotes.
Invited lectures
- Monash University 2004 Sydney Rabobank EDPPP program: Healthy Thinking®
- Medical Assurance lecture series to Clinicians 2004 New Zealand wide (10 presentations) on Healthy Thinking®
- Kaiser Group Health 2007 Seattle Physicians meeting on Disability, Keynote Opening presenter
- 1st Global summit of Professional Speakers 2005 Singapore
- Health Care On line Conference 2000, Sydney. : The future of On-line Consultations. Also Chaired afternoon Session
- 4th Conference of Adventure Tour Operators for India; New Delhi 2006. Adventure Tourism in India, The Way Forward
- Aviation and Occupational Health Conference Queenstown (ANZSOM) 2007. Healthy Thinking® in the workplace Keynote Presentation.
- NZ Medical Association GP Conference Wairakei 2005 Keynote Presentation, Healthy Thinking®
- 350 Presentations including keynote and workshops on Healthy Thinking® to groups like Microsoft, Hilton, and Hewlett Packard globally.
Publications
- Mulholland, TA: Healthy Thinking; Reed Publishing New Zealand ; 167 Pages 2004
Also Published in Australia, India, Poland, Brazil, Russia, Malaysia,Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Philippines, Spain, Croatia - Mulholland, TA: The Power of Healthy Thinking; Reed Publishing New Zealand 2005; 159 Pages. Also In India, Spain, Brazil
Videotapes and Films
- Dr Tom "The Attitude Doctor"; 40 Half hour shows on TV2: TVNZ 2006 on Attitude and Health issues. Produced by Top Shelf productions.
- "Neighbours at War", guest expert 2006-2007 Greenstone Pictures.
- "Happiness DVD". Steve Hart Productions 2007
Graeme Beals B Ed (Hons), Dip Tchng, TTC
Graeme was a successful New Zealand school teacher, principal, Teachers College Lecturer and Director of a regional Teachers Centre (In-service Training and resource provider) before setting up an independent educational publishing company in New Zealand (Curriculum Concepts). That company has grown to also include e-delivered education as well as print and general publishing under the name Zenith Publishing Group Ltd, though it is still privately owned by Graeme and his wife Jane, who now runs the company.
Graeme has since been part of two educational IT companies, developed a leading-edge web-based self-publishing business and been General Manager of Distance Education for one of New Zealand's largest private distance educators, developing the distance delivery approach and helping to write the national plan that has now been adopted as the standard for NZ Government funded tertiary distance learning. In that role Graeme was also responsible for the development of a series' of learning CD Roms for tertiary level industry training, that were so successful with learners, 75% of whom were Māori, that doubts were raised as to whether it was possible for people to learn so fast.
Graeme also established and Directs his own finance company, Aspire Finance Ltd and is a significant shareholder and director in a number of syndicated property companies. He assisted Dr Mulholland to write his books and has now joined The Healthy Thinking Institute as a 10% shareholder - a working co-owner, with special responsibility for management, written communications and e-learning methodology.
DR Paul Englert - Opra Group Ltd
DR Paul Englert is a founding Director of OPRA Group Ltd. Paul is a registered psychologist, an ex-chair of the New Zealand Psychological Society I/O division, a supervisor for the psychologist board and was awarded a certificate of appreciation from the New Zealand Psychological Society in 2007 for services to New Zealand Psychology. Paul has a PhD in Psychology awarded for his work with career counselling for the young unemployed. Paul also has a first class honours (BSC) in industrial and organisation, an arts degree majoring in criminology, and a graduate diploma in applied statistics, specialising in evaluation (through Claremount University).
Paul has extensive experience as both an industrial psychologist as well as a youth counsellor. Paul began his career as a youth worker, specializing in working with ‘kids at risk' and juvenile justice. During this time Paul also worked as a telephone counsellor for youthline. As an I/O psychologist Paul and OPRA have completed a range of work related to the current RFP. This includes the creation of online diagnostics through to development of training courses and major evaluation projects. Paul has 14 published articles, is a sought after speaker and appeared on television shows such as Telstra business, Close up, and the psychologist for Target.
Professor Rob Kydd MB ChB, PhD, FRANZCP
Professor of Psychiatry, Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science in 1996. During 1998-1999 he was also Clinical Director of Mental Health Services for Counties Manukau District Health Board and was Chair of the New Zealand Branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists over the same period. In 2000 he became Head of the School of Biomedical & Health Sciences and over 2002-2004 acted as Head of the School of Population Health. He was Deputy Dean of the Faculty from 2002 to 2005 before returning to the Department of Psychological Medicine.
Rob's research interests have ranged from basic neuro-physiological work on the effect of catecholamine neurotransmitters on the electroencephalogram (EEG) to health services research on the needs of long-term psychiatric patients living in the community. More recently he has developed an interest in the role of the workplace in the prevention and management of illness particularly mental illness and has been providing clinical services and opinions to employers and insurers through the occupational medicine clinics at the Tamaki Campus.
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Dr Libardo Dario Suarez Carvajal - IT consultant and Developer
Libardo trained as a Medical Doctor and Surgeon at the National University of Colombia in Bogota in 1989, later emigrating to New Zealand where he has worked in medically related IT since 1999, first with Doctor Global developing the Electronic Health Record project and on e-Care for Moods: a Web based application developed for Kaiser Permanente. He also worked on a project for Louisiana Health Care using the e-Care for Moods core functionality, with some customised UI and functionality then on HTN and Diabetes Chronic Disease Management Software: a Web based application developed for Kaiser Permanente (USA Health provider based in California). Libardo's has also been working for the IMF (International Medical Fund) on a collection of Health Insurance applications data and its management.
Libardo's work has included hardware and software architectural decisions, client requirements gathering and documentation, general and technical scope, technical documentation(data flows, technical help documentation);data base (SQL server) design, developing, implementation and setting of maintenance plans(backups), programming, User Interface design, developing and maintenance (XSLT, HTML, ASP, ASP .Net). Application and Data base testing and tuning of alpha, beta and production versions.
Our products and services
on-line Digital Learning Solution in Healthy Thinking
Healthy Thinking books
keynote and workshop presentations
Attitude Profiler Diagnostic Test to report and remediate your own unhealthy Attitudes and those of others.
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