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Dr Rick Kausman is a medical doctor who is an Australian pioneer in health and lifestyle balance - and inspiring, motivational and entertaining speaker. He regularly speaks at corporate, medical, educational and community group conferences and seminars.
While being entertained, participants in Dr Rick’s talks and workshops gain key strategies in managing important health issues which helps increase life balance at home and productivity at work.
He is the principal of the If not dieting Weight Management and Eating Behaviour Clinic, and consults on a daily basis with clients who have difficulties with weight management and eating behaviour, taking a multi-disciplinary approach in his management of clients. Dr Rick works with a team of health professionals including dieticians, psychologists, exercise specialists, physiotherapists and chefs, if and when appropriate for the individual person.
Talk and seminar topics include:
- If not dieting, then what?
- How to eat chocolate without feeling guilty! A guide for women in the 21st Century
- Protecting our children from eating disorders and promoting healthy eating
- 5 golden guidelines for guilt-free healthy eating
- Balancing health, weight and happiness
Dr Rick is a prize-winning author for his book 'If Not Dieting, Then What?' which won the Australian Food Writers Award for Best Nutrition Writing. Both ‘If Not Dieting, Then What?’ and his second book, ‘Calm Eating’, have been released internationally. He is the creator of the healthy eating, healthy weight management web site www.ifnotdieting.com and his other resources include the If not dieting Eating awareness diary, Empowerment cards and Pedometer.
He is a regular media performer on both radio and television. He has been an advisor on many Government committees, is a director of the Butterfly Foundation, a consultant to the Jean Hailes Foundation, a Fellow of the Australian College of Psychological Medicine, and has been the Australian Medical Association (Vic) spokesperson on eating behaviour and weight management for over 10 years.
Rick has been an Executive Council member of the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity for 9 years, and Chairperson of Body Image and Health Inc. He recently sat on the committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council working party on overweight and obesity; he is a Fellow of the Australian College of Psychological Medicine and an Australian Medical Association spokesperson on eating behaviour and weight management.
But he believes his greatest achievement has been to survive (so far, anyway) living in a house with two adolescent daughters, a wife, and a female golden retriever.
Over the last 19 years, Dr Rick has had the opportunity of listening to, and working with, thousands of people who have shared their stories with him.
As a medical doctor who is recognised as the Australian pioneer of the non-dieting approach to healthy weight management, his background includes:
- Australian Medical Association (AMA, Victoria) spokesperson on weight management and eating behaviour (1995-2006), Chairperson, Body Image and Health Inc. 2001-2004; having been a committee member since 1992
- Fellow of the Australian College of Psychological Medicine
- Consultant to the Jean Hailes Foundation
- Board member of the Butterfly Foundation
- Committee member of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) working party on guidelines for health professionals on 'overweight', 2001-2003
- Executive Council member of Australian Society for the Study of Overweight (ASSO) from 1993-2002
- Regularly interviewed by the print media, television and radio
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