He has numerous postgraduate qualifications including a PhD in Public Health at Monash University. He is certified by the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine, is a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and is the current chair of AICE Wellbeing & Lifestyle Medicine Clinicial Practice Group.

Carl Thistlethwayte, Member
Carl is a registered chiropractor, a certified lifestyle medicine professional, a certified functional medicine practitioner, a certified shared medical appointment facilitator and a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

He is a sessional academic at CQUniveristy for the School of Health, Medical and Life Sciences. Dr Thistlethwayte was the inaugural chairperson and co-founder of the Wellbeing and Lifestyle Management (WLM) CPG and is also a committee member of the AICE WLM group.

Dr Peter McCann, Member
Peter has thirty years clinical experience as a chiropractor, naturopath and chinese medicine practitioner.  He is certified by the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine and is a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. He was a founding member of the ACA Nutrition SIG and a current committee member of the Australasian Institute of Chiropractic Education (AICE), Wellbeing and Lifestyle Management clinical practice group.

His research interests lie in non-pharmacological interventions for back pain. He is currently a Masters in Research candidate at CQUniversity investigating the use of superficial heat in low back pain management.