Patrick Aouad | Founder & CEO
CU Health

Dr. Patrick Aouad is an internationally published consultant neurologist, multi-business founder and CEO of CU Health. CU Health is Australia’s only digital primary healthcare platform that operates under a multidisciplinary care model to offer preventive and management solutions for all common physical and mental healthcare needs. Patrick is passionate about improving health outcomes through human-centred technology and is a leading voice on digital health, workplace wellbeing and its economic impacts. He is also a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney and consults to multinational organisations on leadership, digital health standards and design. One of the key areas of interest and problems Patrick is addressing is the nexus between the health and wellbeing of society and economic productivity. It is intuitive that a mentally and physically well population will be more productive, but the systems, processes, technology and metrics that underpin this relationship are poorly understood. Instead of allowing this important space to remain intangible, Patrick has coined the term “Wellbeing Economics” as a means of understanding how the protection and wellbeing management of human capital not only leads to lower rates of disease and illness, but ultimately improves the bottom line in ways equal to or more powerfully than AI. In an era where technology underpins efficiency, we are running the risk of forgetting about people altogether which is an irony when all businesses need to attract, retain and protect talent as well as develop products and services that serve people.