Nurturing your Clinical Innovation with AUSCEP

The MTPConnect Podcast

In a special series dedicated to the Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program (AUSCEP) we introduce you to some of the passionate health professionals taking part in this 12-month program to develop their innovative ideas into products and enterprises.

Dr Monica Hadges is a Clinical Educator and Mental Health Therapist and founder of Mi Team Mental Health. Monica’s digital health innovation, I-CiE Mi Team, is an app for client involved e-collaboration giving consumers and families easy access to participate in clinical review dialogues about their care.

Monica shares her start-up journey which began with the findings of her PhD research, and her innovation is now ready for funding to resource further development. She explains how the regular AUSCEP Pitstop events enabled her to find the time away from her busy practice and build camaraderie with other clinicians ‘seeking solutions’.

The program’s third cohort has been delivered in NSW and Victoria, in partnership with MTPConnect and Australian Society for Medical Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ASME) and supported by LaunchVic and NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI). The next 2025/26 cohort is open for Victorian applications until 20 June 2025 – apply at auscep.au.

This episode is hosted by MTPConnect’s Caroline Duell and Elizabeth Stares.

Chapters

1. Introduction to MTP Connect Podcast (00:00:00)

2. Introduction to the podcast (00:00:33)

3. Dr Monica Hadges and I-CiE Mi Team (00:01:16)

4. How the System Works for Patients (00:01:51)

5. Why apply for the Australian Clinical Entrepreneurs Program? (00:06:44)

6. Value of AUSCEP and Future Plans (00:11:44)

7. Contacting Dr Hadges and Episode Closing (00:15:12)