Physician, Medical Administrator, Author, and Advocate for Value-Based HealthCare and Lifestyle Medicine
Specialty: Family Medicine
Dr Eddie Price is a pioneering healthcare leader and advocate for Value-Based HealthCare (VBHC), with a career spanning nearly five decades. A Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, Dr Price has been at the forefront of healthcare reform since the 1970s, promoting proactive, preventive, and patient-centred approaches long before they became mainstream. An early champion of Lifestyle Medicine, he highlighted its role in health outcomes as early as 1973 and has since authored influential works including Health Outcomes: A New Way of Defining and Managing Health and Supramedicine: From Health Outcomes to Outcome Medicine. In recognition of his outstanding and long-term commitment to advancing Lifestyle as Medicine in Australia and New Zealand, Dr Price was awarded ASLM’s highest honour, The Pioneer of Lifestyle Medicine Award, in 2023. His enduring vision continues to inspire innovation in healthcare systems that prioritise wellbeing, prevention, and value.