Consulting
Medical Leadership
Chief Medical Officer-grade leadership for Australian healthcare operators — fractional, advisory, or interim. A clinician who has led teams, prescribed at scale, and run a clinical business at the same time.
What this covers
Medical leadership is more than a credentialled name on a slide deck. Operators in regulated healthcare need a clinician who can sit across a board, a regulator, a practitioner network, and a product team without losing the thread between them. I provide that capability on a fractional, advisory, or interim basis — including stepping in when an existing CMO has departed, when a platform is preparing for a regulator response, or when a founder needs a credible clinical voice to scale beyond the early team.
Who it is for
- VC-backed health-tech and telehealth operators who need a credible clinical face and a working governance partner.
- Medicinal cannabis platforms expanding their authorised-prescriber base or rebuilding their clinical model post-AHPRA scrutiny.
- Distributed practitioner networks where retention, capability uplift, and consistent prescribing standards are the operational bottleneck.
- Aesthetic medicine groups professionalising under tightening state-level cosmetic-medicine regulation.
Typical deliverables
- Fractional Chief Medical Officer or Medical Director engagements.
- Clinical strategy for new product lines, patient pathways, and geographic expansion.
- Practitioner recruitment, onboarding, and capability-uplift programs.
- Stakeholder management with AHPRA, the TGA, state health departments, insurers, and indemnifiers.
- Crisis response — regulator notifications, patient incidents, and media management.
- Clinical board reporting and KPI design that boards and regulators both find credible.
Why Dr Rob
Sitting CEO and clinical lead of Claims Doctor (Health Data Research Pty Ltd). Active prescriber across multiple Australian medicinal cannabis platforms — including Alternaleaf and Sirius Green — which means the operator-side and practitioner-side incentives are equally familiar. Trained across neurosurgery, emergency medicine, radiology, addiction medicine, and cosmetic medicine; comfortable in clinical complexity and corporate governance in the same week.
Engagements are delivered through Health Data Research Pty Ltd. For enquiries, use the contact page and select the business or partnerships route.