Family physician
Dr Paul Lam,
MBBS, FAMAC, a family physician and tai chi master in Sydney, Australia, for thirty-two years, is a world leader in the field of tai chi for health improvement. He has published widely in medical journals and magazines and is author of Overcoming Arthritis, Tai Chi for Beginners and the 24 Forms and Teaching Tai Chi Effectively. Dr Lam has worked with tai chi and medical specialists to create several tai chi for health programs — including Tai Chi for Diabetes — that are safe and easy to learn. Dr Lam has travelled around the world training thousands of Tai Chi for health instructors.
Dr Pat Phillips,
MBBS, MA(Oxon), FRACP, MRACMA,GRADDIP HLTH
ECON UNE), is the Senior Director of Endocrinology at the Central Northern Adelaide Health Service. He has been actively involved in Diabetes Australia, the Australian Diabetes Society and the Australian Diabetes Educators’ Association since the 1980s. He is an editor of the Australian Guidelines for the Management of Diabetes in General Practice and of Diabetes Australia’s national diabetes magazine Conquest. He oversees the Diabetes Centre at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the State Diabetes Outreach Program.
