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Dr. Caroline Seiler recently defended her PhD in Medical Sciences (Physiology and Pharmacology) at McMaster University on the clinical effects of gluten, wheat, and the nocebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome and whether patients change their diets when presented with tailored information. Having worked at McMaster’s Farncombe Institute, she published high-impact meta-analyses on celiac disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, and probiotics, and coordinated two irritable bowel syndrome clinical trials. In her free time, she has been a ballroom dancer for the past 7 years and enjoys dancing modern jive and American-style tango.
Dr Powell is a neurologist and geriatrician with a special interest in cognition and dementia. She obtained her MBBS from the University of Adelaide and completed her neurology and geriatric medicine training across St Vincent’s, Concord and the Prince of Wales Hospitals with a neurodegenerative disease fellowship at the University of Sydney Brain and Mind Centre. She is currently undertaking a PhD through the University of New South Wales Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing focusing on maintaining high cognitive ability and mental and physical health with increasing age.
I am a molecular pharmacologist who works at the University of Adelaide, Australia. I have a broad interest in the understanding of how surface receptors can modulate neuronal function and survival, as well as interests in natural product pharmacology and drug design. As well I am interested in evolutionary biology, science communication (committee member of SA Science Communicators) and am an avid amateur astronomer. My astronomy blog is astroblog. I did postdoctoral work in the Institute of Pharmacology at the Free University of Berlin in 1991-1994, returning to Australia in 1994. I have collaborated with Professor John Carver, Dr. Scot Smid and Professor Colin Barrow on using natural products to attack the neurodegeneration process in Alzheimer’s Disease. I was recently elected as convenor of the Toxicology Special Interest Group of the Australasian Society for Pharmacology and Toxicology. I am also collaborating with Professor Roger Byard on the forensic implications of herbal medicines. I have held NH&MRC funding and currently hold ARC funding.
Dr Chiu completed her medical degree with Honours at the University of Sydney. She also completed a Bachelor of Medical Science and following a dedicated research year, graduated with First Class Honours. Her academic pursuits continued, completing a PhD supported by prestigious scholarships from University College London and Cambridge University. Dr. Chiu has contributed significantly to peer-reviewed publications and authored a book chapter for Oxford University Press. Her ophthalmology training was undertaken at Sydney Eye Hospital, with further subspecialty Fellowship training in refractive surgery, including a further post-graduate academic qualification in this field. With over a decade of experience, Dr. Chiu has been a dedicated medical educator, specializing in teaching cataract surgery, including advanced and complex techniques. Currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Education at Harvard University, Dr. Chiu remains deeply committed to medical education. Beyond her clinical practice in private and public hospitals, she actively engages in advisory boards and participates in clinical trials focusing on Extended Depth of Focus (EDOF) IOLs. Dr. Chiu is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences, sharing her expertise in refractive eye surgery.
Dr Baulderstone graduated from Flinders University Medical School in 1996. On completing her internship at the Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park SA she worked in Paediatrics at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide. She was awarded a Post-graduate Diploma in Child Health in 1998. Dr Baulderstone then specialised in family medicine and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2004. She then trained in the Griffiths Child Developmental Assessments in 2010 and in Medical Psychology (Interpersonal Therapy) in 2011. She has worked at the Oakden Medical Centre since 2013. Dr Baulderstone is passionate about helping parents with the “best and hardest” job in the world in the world. Her proudest professional achievements in the last year have been becoming a certified provider of the two following evidence based programs: “What’s the Buzz” child social and emotional skills programme (July 2016) and the Melbourne University “Tuning in to Kids” Parenting Program (May 2017). Dr Michaela Baulderstone provides special clinics for child health and wellbeing and parenting support. These include the Kids Clinic and the “Potties & Pillows” Sleep and Toileting Clinic. She has undertaken targeted training in primary care child health, child behaviour, parenting counselling and interpersonal therapy.
A/Prof Amanda Gilligan is a consultant neurologist with specialist interests in stroke medicine, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. She has a passion for teaching, research and new developments in clinical neurology. In the 1990’s, as the study coordinator, she launched the first national thrombolysis trial in acute stroke. After neurology training, based at Austin and Royal Melbourne Hospitals, she completed a PhD in stroke medicine with NH& MRC scholarship support. She has held senior roles at Eastern Health and continues her long association with Austin Health in their stroke service.She joined Epworth Healthcare in 2016 as the Director of the new Epworth Eastern Neurosciences Unit, based at Box Hill. She has been pivotal in the development of their Rapid Access Inpatient TIA service. In 2018, she was appointed as Director of Epworth Neurosciences Clinical Institute which oversees neurology, neurosurgery and spinal surgery across 4 Epworth sites, including 43 neurologists, 34 neurosurgeons and 10 orthopaedic spinal surgeons. Epworth appointments: Director, Epworth Neurosciences Clinical Institute Director, Epworth Eastern Neurosciences Unit
Sally joined the University of Essex in 2019. She graduated as a Sports Therapist in 2001 and has since spent time in academia, sport and clinical practice in the UK and in South Africa. She completed her PhD in Human Movement Science at the University of Pretoria in 2014 and an MSc in Sports Nutrition at Liverpool John Moores University in 2019. She is a member of the Society of Sports Therapists, Sport and Exercise Nutrition register and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Research interests include training and nutrition for endurance sports (with a particular focus on iron-distance triathlon masters athletes) and physical activity and health.
Dr Chris McManus is a lecturer at the School of Sports Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences and is Cluster Lead for the Human Performance Research Group at the University of Essex. In these roles, he is responsible for designing and delivering courses in sports nutrition, exercise physiology, and exercise testing. He also conducts research, secures external research funding, and provides sports science and nutrition services to athletes.
Dr Henry Chung is a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science (SES) and is a part of the School of Sport, Rehabilitation, and Exercise Sciences (SRES) at the University of Essex. Henry is also the schools Employability Development Director (EDD). Henry’s background is in Sport & Exercise Sciences, where he completed his Sports Science BSc degree 2015. Further a Sport & Exercise Science MSc degree in 2016 at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge. Following this, he worked at Addenbrookes hospital’s Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) and Cambridge University Hospital (CUH), in Epidemiology for the University of Cambridge (UoC) (2016 – 2018). In this role he supported the completion of large scale research projects for the Medical Research Council (MRC). Henry was awarded the Vice Chancellor Scholarship fund, where he then successfully completed and was awarded his Ph.D in Exercise Physiology and Genetics (2022). During this time was an Associate Lecturer in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition for the School of Psychology and Sports Science, at Anglia Ruskin University.
Dr Anthony Marinucci is a generalist aged care practitioner with extensive experience in the aged care sector. He holds the position of national chair for the RACGP specific interest group for Aged Care, in which he is actively involved in advocacy and policy consultation for improving aged care standards in this country. After finishing his medical degree at Sydney University, Dr. Marinucci completed his residency in the Sydney Local Health District (SLHD), gaining experience in the acute geriatrics services at Concord and Canterbury hospitals. As a registrar, he further pursued his interest in aged care by being heavily involved in outreach medical care to RACF’s during his specialist primary care fellowship. He is now the admitting local medical officer for multiple residental aged care facilities in the Inner-West, North Shore and Eastern suburbs of Sydney, offering regular outreach (mobile) consultation and palliative care support. He works closely with both public and private local specialist services to deliver best-practice, evidence based and multi-disciplinary care to his patients. He has a special interest in the collaborative care of those people living with dementia. As an accredited GPMHSC mental health care provider, he is able to offer bulk-billed focused psychological therapy (incl. CBT, Interpersonal therapy and EMDR). Dr. Marinucci is currently available to accept new RACF patients, including ageing in place, low care and high care residents. He is available for limited consulting hours weekly in his rooms, to support those still living in the community, outside of residential care.
Professor Kaarin Anstey is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute. She is also co-Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing as well as a conjoint Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia. Anstey’s research programs focus on the causes, consequences and prevention of cognitive ageing, and dementia. She has developed risk assessment tools interventions to reduce risk of cognitive decline and dementia and conducted epidemiological and data synthesis projects. Anstey currently leads ‘MyCoach’ – a randomised controlled trial of a multidomain intervention for older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Subjective Cognitive Decline. A second focus of her work is on older driver safety and in this field Anstey has also developed and validated risk assessment tools and interventions. Anstey was a member of the WHO Guideline Development Committee for the Guidelines on Risk Reduction for Cognitive Decline and Dementia and is a member of the Governance Committee of the Global Council on Brain Health.
Brenton Prosser is Professor of Public Policy and Leadership at the University of NSW and the Director of the UNSW Public Policy Hub. Brenton has held senior research positions at at Australian and UK universities. In these roles, he has led national health, education and social service evaluations for Australian Government, while he also specialises in capability building with the public sector. Brenton also specialises in education, public health, mental health, medicalisation and policy, while he is known for his expertise in ADHD. He has also researched extensively in governance, policy networks and democratic engagement. In the UK, he has co-led research into citizen’s assemblies and devolution, as well as explored avenues for research impact in Westminster. As a former political Chief-of-Staff, he has worked extensively in the area of minority government and public policy, publishing a handbook on this area in 2016. He has published four books, including a guide to ADHD, which has sold over 5,000 copies internationally. His latest book, Minority Policy (MUP), looks at the influence of independents and marginal members on contemporary public policy. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor (Medicine) at Notre Dame University.