Leaders in
bariatric care
Our Home Sooner™ Ambassadors are leading bariatric care clinicians, educators and people with lived experience. They bring real-world insights and best practice knowledge directly into your wards, sharing their expertise and building your teams’ confidence through talks, demonstrations and practical training sessions.
Alongside our ambassadors, our trainers are available for specific education modules right through to annual training schedules.
Our three main educational approaches:
Dr Caz Hales
Caz Hales is a registered nurse and Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, and an Adjunct Bariatric Care Advisor with Health New Zealand Capital Coast Hutt Valley. With over 20 years’ clinical and academic experience, her research focuses on improving bariatric care through safe patient handling, mobility, and size-inclusive healthcare design. A long-time advocate for Bariatric Essentials and the Home Sooner™ methodology, Caz has helped advance safer, more dignified hospital journeys and improved patient outcomes.
Professor Brian Dolan OBE
Brian Dolan Is a healthcare leader with over 30 years’ experience in system redesign, culture change and patient flow. He founded the global movements #EndPJparalysis and #Last1000Days, championing dignity, mobilisation and reduced deconditioning in hospital care. His work is guided by a simple belief: while staff time matters, patient time is sacred.
Tracey Carr
Tracey Carr is a UK-based bariatric consultant and patient advocate with more than 20 years’ experience. As a bariatric patient herself, she combines lived experience with professional expertise to support healthcare teams in safer moving and handling, respectful language and dignity-first care. She works internationally to educate and upskill staff, improving outcomes for both patients and clinicians.
Professor Anne-Marie Hill
Anne-Marie Hill is a Senior Principal Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia, specialising in healthy ageing and falls prevention. A Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists, she brings over 30 years’ clinical experience working with older people. Ranked among the world’s top researchers in this field, she has led major clinical trials and published over 180 papers advancing evidence-based mobility, safety and patient wellbeing.
“Longer stay patients are at higher risk of injury. In turn, this increases the pressure on nurses and other resources, especially in the case of care for bariatric patients. Hospitals that take a proactive approach to the patient’s arrival have the best chance of ensuring a smooth and safe journey overall.”
Senior Nurse
QLD Hospital