Dr Jessica Tattersall is an allergist and medical rhinologist. She graduated from the University of Sydney with honours in 2003. After starting out training in Otolaryngology she went on to pursue a career in allergic diseases. Jessica is a fellow of the RACGP and holds a Masters of Medicine in allergic diseases from the University of Western Sydney.During her training she worked as a clinical research fellow at the John Radcliff Hospital in the Department of Otolaryngology in Oxford. She has a special interest in allergic, non- allergic and inflammatory diseases of the airway and sinuses and is actively involved in research and education in this area. Jessica is a member of the Australasian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the Australian and New Zealand Rhinological Society.

Dr Jason Chow is a Gynaecologist and Obstetrician, interested in the management of pain in the pelvis and the body. He has a longstanding interest in the promotion of health in women, providing care for endometriosis, menstrual problems, infertility, preconception and early pregnancy care, urinary incontinence, prolapse and abnormal cervical screening tests.

Professor John Boyages is a breast cancer specialist with over 35 years of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. He trained at the University of Sydney and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard University. He is a radiation oncologist at the ICON Cancer Centre He has published more than 180 research papers. He has established breast cancer screening, treatment and lymphoedema programs. He is the author of three Taking Control series of books for patients (www.bcpublish.com). In 2017, he was awarded an order of Australia for his work with breast cancer.

Jayashri KULKARNI commenced her appointment as Professor of Psychiatry, The Alfred and Monash University in 2002. She directs a large psychiatric research group, the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc), with approximately 150 staff and students. The Centre is dedicated to discovering new treatments, new understanding and new services for people with a range of mental illnesses.
Jayashri Kulkarni completed her MBBS degree in 1981 at Monash University and worked mainly in Emergency Medicine before deciding to specialise in Psychiatry. She became a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1989 and was awarded a PhD from Monash University in 1997 for her thesis Women and Psychosis. Jayashri has pioneered the novel use of estrogen as a treatment for schizophrenia and is internationally acknowledged as a leader in the field of reproductive hormones and their impact on mental health. An expert in Women’s Mental Health, Jayashri was elected the President of the International Association of Women’s Mental Health, a role she commenced in 2017.

Dr Preeti Joshi is a Paediatric Allergy and Immunology Specialist at the Children’s Hospital Westmead and in private practice. Her current research interests include immunotherapy for peanut allergy. Dr Joshi is the chair of the paediatric committee of the Australasian Society Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the lead of the National Allergy Strategy food allergy prevention project. She is also head of the medical board advisory board of Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia.

A/Prof Mike Armour is the Director of Research at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, where he leads several clinical trials on endometriosis, menstrual health and complementary medicine. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed articles on women’s health, contributed to textbook chapters including on medicinal cannabis and endometriosis, and secured over $7.1 million in research funding. Mike is widely recognised for his work in endometriosis, serving as the complementary medicine expert on the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ Endometriosis Expert Working Group that developed Australia’s endometriosis guidelines, and currently holds leadership roles as Chair of Australian Interdisciplinary Researchers in Endometriosis (AIRE) and is co-lead of the Menstrual Cycle Research Network.

Mike has had significant media attention on his work including articles in The Conversation, an SBS Insight special on endometriosis, an SBS special on herbal medicine for period pain and over 300 pieces of international news media with an estimated readership of 120 million across over 100 countries including Channel 7 News, ABC News, and The Guardian. Mike has secured over $7.1M AUD in funding, with $3,400,000 of this as lead investigator with a mixture of competitive grants, partnership grants and industry funding.

Mike is heavily involved in research and treatment of endometriosis, and he was the invited complementary medicine expert on the endometriosis expert working group (EEWG) for the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) that developed the first Australian guidelines for Endometriosis, released in January 2021. Mike is also a World Endometriosis Society Ambassador, Chair of Endometriosis Australia’s clinical advisory committee, Chair of Endometriosis Australia’s research committee, Academic lead of the Menstrual Cycle Research Network (MCRN) at Western Sydney University and Chair of the Australasian Interdisciplinary Researchers in Endometriosis (AIRE).