Our Team

Dr. Ash Wallin is a General Practitioner based in Cairns with a distinct background in both military service and metabolic health. Before entering medicine, he served as a pilot in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and later worked as a Medical Officer in the Royal Australian Navy, deploying to Afghanistan and serving on ships at sea.

He completed his medical studies at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle in 2011. Since discharging from the Navy, he has settled in Cairns with his family.

Areas of Special Interest:

• Metabolic Health: Specializes in health optimization, obesity treatment, and the reversal of chronic disease using low-carbohydrate diets and lifestyle interventions.
• Lifestyle Medicine: Promotes exercise (specifically High-Intensity Interval Training) as a cornerstone of wellness.
• Specialized Medicine: Dive medicine, aviation medicine, and occupational health.
• Men’s Health & Sports Medicine.

Personal: Outside of clinical practice, Dr. Wallin is a tennis enthusiast, drummer, and supports the Melbourne Demons (AFL).

Don McKay MPST is a Health and Performance Coach, Consultant, Trainer, Author, Keynote Speaker, nutrition enthusiast, and lifelong learner dedicated to optimal health and resilience. His combination of frontline operational experience and academic expertise creates a unique “skill stack,” integrating health, resilience, and performance strategies to help individuals and organisations perform at their best in both professional and personal domains.

Don has worked in Law Enforcement for 39 years, with over 31 years in middle and senior management roles. His experience centres on leading specialist, multi-disciplinary teams in complex, high-risk operational environments, where decision-making, resilience, and performance under pressure are critical.

He holds a Master of Professional Studies (High Performance and Resilience Strategies) from the University of Southern Queensland and a Diploma in Public Safety (Policing). Don is also a Certified Primal Health Coach through the Primal Health Coach Institute and a certified Nutrition Health and Wellbeing Coach through VAST Nutrition.

With more than 30 years of training and facilitation experience, Don is an engaging presenter who has designed and delivered specialist programs in Critical Incident Decision Making, Decision Justification, Industry Exercise Design and Management, Operational Communication, Debriefing, and Organisational Learning. He has worked with audiences ranging from students to senior executives across diverse sectors.

In 2017, Don founded My Evolution Coaching and Consulting to expand his impact and support individuals, teams, and organisations in building high-performance capability and resilience. Since 2019, he has delivered My Evolution High Performance Workshops to over 3,200 participants across Queensland.

More recently, Don has extended his work into the development of applied AI solutions, harnessing artificial intelligence to design and build bespoke applications across health, coaching, performance, nutrition, decision-making, domestic violence risk detection, and relationship education. These tools are purpose-built to rapidly enhance and optimise outcomes by translating complex data and evidence-based principles into simple, actionable strategies—empowering individuals to better understand themselves, make informed decisions, and improve their health, safety, and performance.