Lloydspharmacy in 2011, where
Thom is now Medical Director, with
responsibility for its online doctor
service, www.lloydspharmacy.com/
doctor. PatientChoice was sold to
Westfield Health the same year.
Thom also sits on the healthcare panel
of several venture-capital companies.
He remains very interested in
disruptive innovations that improve
the delivery of healthcare.
Centre for Global Health, Deputy
Director of the INDOX research
network at Oxford University and
CEO of MedicineAfrica Ltd. He
has previously held positions as a
researcher with Dr Bryan McIver at
The Mayo Clinic, a Kennedy Scholar
in systems biology and genetics at
Harvard University and an Academic
Clinical Fellow in Cancer Medicine at
Oxford University.
global burden of disease and the global
clustering of healthcare expertise.
It provides real-time mentoring,
tutoring and clinical support to
isolated healthcare workers in low and
middle-income countries, specifically
Somaliland, Ghana, Palestine and
Tanzania, with Rwanda, Uganda,
Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe
soon to be included.
our own shores. By applying business
rigour to development and healthcare,
the 27-year old entrepreneur, medical
doctor and philanthropist intends
disease across the globe.
of 21, while studying medicine. He
has since grown Zambrero to over
15 outlets across the country, and
counting. In 2010, the business, which
employs 170 staff and brings in over
$10 million in revenue, was recognised
by Business Review Weekly as the
fastest-growing franchise in Australia.
has set his will towards democratising
healthcare and education for young
people, in Australia and across the
globe. Off the success of his rapidly
expanding Zambrero group, Sam
created the Emagine Foundation in
2007. To date the foundation has built
and equipped 15 IT learning centres
in rural Sri Lanka, ensuring children
in these areas are not prevented from
accessing the education required to
better their lives simply by virtue
of their geographical location and
socioeconomic circumstance. There
are plans for 100 centres by the end
of 2014, along with expansion to
Cambodia and Vietnam.
an aid organisation that
aims to systematically eliminate
infectious diseases from Australia
for good, one at a time. This leads
him to work much closer to home,
to improve the health of remote
indigenous communities where
children suffer from the parasite
scabies in epidemic proportions.
opportunities for disadvantaged
young people across the globe to
empower themselves through good
health and quality education. Sam's
success in business derives from an
unusual ability to visualise practical
solutions to seemingly vast problems,
and to drive these to implementation
through a calculated approach and by
force of willpower and inspiring others
to believe in his vision.
has demonstrated the outcomes that
can be achieved when this is applied.
he juggles medicine and business,
and the importance of applying
entrepreneurial skills and framework
to his big-picture healthcare projects.
in the influence of our work, thinking
big and having sound business
principles underpinning our practice
and personal `operations' will, most
certainly, greatly expand our positive
impact on our family, our community,
our country and the world.
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