About Satori Medicine
Satori Medicine is founded on a simple but powerful idea: that knowledge creates the conditions for instant transformation. The consultancy exists to support organisations, companies and healthcare leaders in advancing evidence-based, integrative approaches to health and medicine..
Led by Professor Kylie O’Brien PhD, Satori Medicine brings over 25 years of expertise in higher education, curriculum design, healthcare practitioner training and clinical research. With a career spanning senior academic roles in universities and private institutions (eg. Associate Dean [Teaching & Learning, Victoria University; Director of Assessment & Learning Design, Deakin University; National Academic Director, AIAS]), as well as academic leadership in doctor education for organisations such as the National Institute of Integrative Medicine (NIIM) and the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM), Professor O’Brien offers a depth of experience that bridges academia, clinical practice, and industry.
She has been a member of the Australian government’s Tertiary Education Quality & Standards Agency (TEQSA) since 2013 and has been a member of the Judging Panels for Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) and the Office of Learning and Teaching T&L Research Grants (2015). She is an Adjunct Professor at Torrens University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University.
Professor O’Brien has extensive experience in research having conducted clinical research into Chinese medicine, teaching and learning, and medicinal cannabis, with over 45 peer-reviewed papers, 13 book chapters and three textbooks published. She has extensive experience in research ethics and governance, having chaired and served on multiple Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) at universities and within the private sector.
Since 2018, Professor O’Brien has focused on medicinal cannabis and is one of Australia’s leading educators of doctors in medicinal cannabis, authoring two textbooks focused on medicinal cannabis and also conducting clinical research into medicinal cannabis for a range of conditions.. During her time with the NIIM HREC, she played a key role in the development of the Authorised Prescriber Pathway for medicinal cannabis, an important mechanism enabling doctors to prescribe within Australia’s regulatory framework. She is an Adjunct Professor at Torrens University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University. Add: She sits on the Policy and Regulations Committee of the Federation of International Hemp Organisations (FIHO).
She also has experience working for government, having worked for Victoria’s (then) Department of Human Services in the early 2000’s on the implementation of the Chinese Medicine Act 2000, and later on a rural health strategy for the Policy & Strategic Planning Division. She has also contributed at a national level to the field of integrative medicine as a member of the Therapeutic Goods Administration Advisory Committee on Complementary Medicines.
This unique background, skill set and experience positions Satori Medicine uniquely to assist organisations and companies within the integrative medicine sector and medicinal cannabis sector.