Longevity & preventive medicine
Mapping chronic-disease risk early and acting on it: cardiovascular, cancer, metabolic, neurocognitive and mental health.
About · Longevity doctor, Brisbane
Dr Joshua Hatch
Opse Health is built around one accountable doctor: a Fellowship-qualified GP (FRACGP) practising longevity and preventive medicine in Brisbane, with an unusual foundation for the work. A decade in medical imaging, then hospital orthopaedics, then general practice.
Dr Hatch's career is built around the hardest part of preventive care: judgement. He spent roughly a decade as an MRI and emergency radiographer before medicine, worked as a hospital orthopaedic registrar, qualified as a Fellow of the RACGP, and still assists in surgery today. That path informs how he brings test results into your broader care plan.
For people who have already had a whole-body MRI, Dr Hatch reviews the images alongside the radiologist's report and your clinical history. This is a GP consultation about findings and follow-up, not a replacement for a specialist radiology report. He discusses further assessment, monitoring or referral where indicated. Whole-body MRI screening is not routinely recommended for people without symptoms, known cancer or a cancer-predisposition syndrome.
That is the philosophy of Opse. The value is in the judgement: mapping your risk, deciding what is worth doing, interpreting results as one coherent picture, and following through over years.
It is also a program built to a standard. Opse was developed over two years alongside a clinical pharmacist trained in appraising evidence, so recommendations are anchored to current, critically appraised science and refined as the evidence moves.
“The value isn't in ordering more tests. It's in deciding what's worth doing, and following it through.”
The path here
Imaging, then hospital orthopaedics, then general practice.
Experience that informs clinical assessment and follow-up.
Foundation
Medical imaging
Roughly a decade working as an MRI and emergency radiographer, working with scans daily long before reviewing them as a doctor.
Hospital
Orthopaedic registrar & surgical assisting
Four years as a hospital orthopaedic registrar, and ongoing work as a surgical assistant: a structural, operative view that still shapes how he assesses movement, pain and injury.
Practice
General practice & Fellowship
Fellowship-qualified GP (FRACGP) practising face-to-face, longitudinal preventive medicine.
Now
Longevity & preventive medicine
Lead clinician at Opse Health, guiding screening and risk decisions across cardiovascular, cancer, metabolic, brain and mental health.
Qualifications
Credentialled, and accountable for it.
- Chair — RACGP Musculoskeletal, Sports & Exercise Medicine (Specific Interests) faculty
- Academic appointments at Senior Lecturer level — University of Queensland and Griffith University
- Registered medical practitioner — Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Fellow — Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
MBBS
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery — Griffith University.
FRACGP
Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
Dip. Musculoskeletal Medicine
Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine (UK).
BAppSc (Medical Imaging)
Queensland University of Technology — a decade in MRI and emergency radiography.
Clinical focus
Where the expertise concentrates.
Metabolic & body composition
DEXA-led body composition, visceral fat and bone density read as trends, with evidence-based interpretation.
Cardiovascular & cancer risk
Cardiovascular risk assessment and personalised cancer screening discussions, including the potential benefits, limitations and next steps for each test.
Exercise, strength & VO₂ max
Cardiorespiratory fitness, strength and body composition, with exercise prescribed for the individual rather than from a generic program.
Brain & cognitive health
Neurodegenerative risk weighed in context, with the modifiable factors addressed early.
Evidence-based screening
Screening weighed in the open, with its downsides, false positives and follow-up explained before you decide.
Decided with you
Every screening test is talked through and weighed against its downsides, never assumed.
Evidence-graded
Recommendations are tied to the strength of the evidence, and stated plainly when the evidence is thin.
Accountable over years
One doctor, with planned retesting and follow-through, not a report you never revisit.
Work directly with Dr Hatch.
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