Evening Insights by SANCTUM with Dr Jason Chan

For ten years, Dr Jason Chan was Chief Medical Officer at the Melbourne Storm. His role was to help keep players healthy and performing, week in and week out, through long seasons, injuries and the pressure that comes with elite sport.

In this closed session, Jason will reflect on what that time taught him. Much of it came from the players, coaches and staff around him: the value of small, consistent habits, the importance of acting early rather than waiting for problems to appear, and the difference between simply being well and performing at your best. He’ll share some of the moments and lessons that stayed with him, and how they shaped the way he now thinks about health.

He now practices in performance and longevity medicine at PK27. Applying the many principles he has learnt in his time, with the aim being to help people well beyond the playing field, including those leading busy, demanding lives. If Epigenetics, gut microbiome, fasting insulin, VO2 max, Fat max, Ca scores and CGMs are things that you have heard of before, this could be the talk for you.

Jason will also touch on the growing interest in peptide therapies. It’s a field that attracts a lot of attention and a fair amount of confusion. He’ll share what he has learned, what the evidence does and doesn’t yet show, and why careful, medically supervised use matters.

It will be a relaxed and open conversation, with plenty of time for questions.

Jason is a Life Member of the Melbourne Storm, and has worked in medicine for 32 years, across general practice, bariatric medicine, sports medicine and assisting in over 8000 surgeries.