Dr Caroline West

Dr Caroline is one of Australia's most respected and well-known media doctors. As a specialist GP she is passionate about  Lifestyle Medicine, Women's Health, Mental Health, Prevention and Wellness. As a TV presenter , she  currently appears on iview ABC Ask the Doctor series and Catalyst . She is the Doctor at The Australian Womens Weekly with Ask the Doctor .As a frontline doctor, Dr Caroline has worked in rural, remote and city locations and has recently completed 2 years in India in Women's Health. 

Dr Caroline West

Media Doctor

Specialist GP

Health and Wellbeing Expert

Dr Caroline is passionate about wellness and

remains committed to the latest developments in

lifestyle medicine believing that prevention

is the key for better health.

She aims not only to

inform but inspire, always

encouraging her clients and audience

to put their knowledge into action.

Her areas of expertise include:

Healthy lifestyle

Stress management/ Burnout prevention

Better sleep

Nutrition

Positive Ageing

Using prevention to shape health destiny

Practical small steps to improve health

Mental health and wellbeing.

Corporate clients have included:

RTA, Commonwealth Bank

Cisco, Avant,

CSIRO, Austrade

Australia Post, Smartre

KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Mozaic

medical practice

Dr Caroline West holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of NSW and a Fellowship of Lifestyle Medicine.

On graduation , she was awarded the university prize for most outstanding achievement in community medicine.

Dr Caroline West has undertaken extensive post graduate training in the areas of lifestyle and preventative medicine, nutrition ,counselling/ psychology and innovation in healthcare , including training in AI.

Dr Caroline is the Past President of the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association. She has a background as a consultant lecturer through the University of Southern Cross, school of Lifestyle Medicine and Health Promotion. Dr Caroline West has attained her fellowship in Lifestyle Medicine / Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

Dr Caroline has designed and presented RACGP (Royal Australian College of GPs) accredited courses on stress management and healthy lifestyles/self care for health professionals. She currently runs wellness programs and retreats for medical doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.

Extensive experience designing and implementing wellness and health projects at a corporate level has also given her great insight into the importance of wellbeing in the workplace.

During the Covid years, Caroline was based in Broken Hill , NSW working for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and in aboriginal health.

From 2022 - 2025 , Dr Caroline was based in Bangalore India where she worked in women’s health in a large free hospital . During this time, She also worked with a large corporate tech and analytics team based in Bangalore in the areas of leadership, wellbeing and health programs .

Quality Use of medicines remain a passion , and Caroline has been a medical advisor to the NPS Quality Use of Medicines and is a current associate partner of QUM Connect.

Dr Caroline has completed her Executive Education Certification through Harvard Medical School in the Implementation of AI in healthcare .

She has worked extensively as a media presenter,TV producer, facilitator , MC , podcast host and thought leader in the areas of Health and Science.

Dr Caroline West currently works as a GP in private practice.

Her areas of expertise include

Wellness

Stress management

Women’s health

Fitness

Nutrition

Healthy sleep

Stop smoking

Counselling

Mental Health

Positive Ageing

Quality Use of Medicines

Health Literacy