Dr Rachael Sharman is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in psychology, specialising in child/adolescent development. Her research is focused on the optimal and healthy development of the paediatric brain and has covered the neuro/psychological impacts of dietary practices of parents and their children, physical activity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, genetic disorders, concussion, and childhood trauma. Dr Sharman’s current interests include: children’s play opportunities and the built environment, child protection issues including sexual abuse and high-conflict custody disputes, social media and adolescent development, and transitions from education to the workplace.

Joanna Baker is a dietitian who loves food and is passionate about digestive health. In 2015 she stepped out of the hospital environment to establish Everyday Nutrition, a specialist Private Practice in Melbourne. She now works with a team of expert dietitians who love to support people with digestive complaints to implement simple yet effective strategies that resolve gut symptoms without losing their enjoyment of food. Joanna has worked in healthcare for over 25 years. She is a committee member of the Adverse Food Reactions Interest Group with Dietitians Australia and on the Advisory Board for the Master of Dietetics at Deakin University.

Dr Brent Richards is Professor or Critical Care Research and Medical Director of Research Commercialisation at GCHHS, with interests in ICU infections, ventilation, and re-using data.
He was previously director of ICU, and executive director of surgery at GCUH; and a founding member of the National Intensive Care Clinical Trials Group.
For the last 2 years he has worked on ICU preparedness for QLD, including help guide purchasing decisions and sitting on many state and national Covid-19 committees. His current interests also include Artificial Intelligence, and he chairs the Advisory Board of the QLD AI Hub.

Warren Ward is Director of the Queensland Eating Disorders Service (QuEDS) and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland. He is Chair of the Queensland Health Eating Disorder Advisory Group and co-author of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Eating Disorders. In 2017 he received the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders (ANZAED) Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Eating Disorders. He has published more than forty articles and book chapters, most of them on eating disorders. He was recently appointed Medical Director of Wandi Nerida, Australia’s first residential program for eating disorders.

Dr Desmond Graham is a Geriatrician who graduated from the University of Newcastle and completed specialty training at Westmead and North Shore Hospitals. He is actively involved with the Australia and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine and holds an academic appointment as a Clinical Lecturer with the University of Sydney. Dr Graham has a special interest in healthy ageing and peri-operative medicine. He provides holistic, patient-centred care for all patients with major geriatric syndromes including dementia, delirium, frailty, falls and end of life care. He participates in a monthly Healthy Ageing segment with Deborah Knight on 2GB radio and holds regular forums for the Northern Beaches community.

Dr Sarah Catford, endocrinologist and andrologist with a special interest in male infertility. Sarah is an expert advisor for Healthy Male. Sarah recently completed her PhD on the genetic basis and broader health implications of male infertility. A major part of her PhD was an NHMRC-funded study investigating the implications of male infertility on offspring health and fertility by clinically evaluating a cohort of ICSI-conceived young men of infertile fathers.

Prof. Sam Berkovic is Laureate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, and Director of the Epilepsy Research Centre at Austin Health.

His early work was in neuroimaging where he was a pioneer in the application of MRI and single photon emission computed tomography in epilepsy, and especially epilepsy surgery. This work was rapidly applied to routine clinical use and remains so today. In the late 1980s he realised the potential for clinical genetic research in epilepsy, utilising the NHMRC twin registry and working with large pedigrees. This led, together with molecular genetic collaborators in Adelaide and Germany, to the discovery of the first gene for epilepsy in 1995.

Subsequently he and his group have been involved in the discovery of many of the known epilepsy genes. This has changed the conceptualisation of the causes of epilepsy, is having a major impact on directions of epilepsy research and has directly translated to impacting daily clinical diagnosis and counselling, as well as refining treatment.

He heads a large group integrating genetic, imaging and physiological studies in epilepsy. His current passions are completing the understanding of the complex genetic architecture of epilepsies and developing precision therapies for severe genetic epilepsies.

He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2005, Fellow of the Royal Society (London) in 2007, Companion of the Order of Australia in 2014 and a member of the National Academy of Medicine (USA) in 2017. Together with Ingrid Scheffer, he was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science in 2014.