Prof Kristine Macartney is a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases and vaccinology. Kristine is currently the Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), a paediatric infectious disease consultant at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and a Professor in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney. Her research interests include translation of evidence into policy and practice, vaccine safety, and most other areas of vaccine preventable diseases research, particularly in relation to rotavirus, varicella zoster virus and influenza. She is the senior editor of the Australian Immunisation Handbook.

Professor Maher is a tertiary referral Urogynaecologist working at the Wesley and Royal Brisbane Urogynaecology Units. His long interest long interest in research has been rewarded with over 150 peer review publications and a PhD at the University of QLD.

He has lead the Queensland branch of the Continence Foundation of Australia, served as secretary of the AGES board and chaired the Royal Australian & New Zealand College Urogynaecology Sub-specialty Committee and Urogynaecology Society of Australasia (UGSA).

Professor Maher also leads the prestigious Cochrane review on the surgical management of prolapse since 2004 and the International Collaboration Incontinence (ICI) on the surgical management of prolapse since 2012. In 2021 he co-chairs the 50th International Continence Society meeting in Melbourne.

Dr Marc Jurblum is an advanced trainee in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry working with the Alfred Hospital Mental Health Service. He completed his medical training through Deakin University and a subsequent Masters of Psychiatry through the University of Melbourne. Marc is a member of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ASAM) and was a founding member of the Space Life Sciences Sub-committee. In this capacity he helped establish the Bioastronautics Australia Network and has been a faculty member for the Humans in Space space medicine course run since 2017. He completed the International Space University (ISU) Southern Hemisphere Space Program (SHSSP) in 2014 as well as a Graduate Certificate in Space Studies via the University of South Australia. He is currently enrolled in a PhD through the University of Melbourne working with the St Vincent’s Hospital Department of Psychiatry. Marc’s research involves recent developments in visual neuroscience and lessons from isolated and confined environment psychology and extreme environment habitat design. The project aims to improve patient recovery as well as staff performance and wellbeing in a stressful healthcare ward setting.

Professor Nick Zwar joined Bond University in 2019 as Executive Dean. Nicks’ background is in medicine as a general practitioner and as a primary health care teacher and researcher. Nick was previously Dean of Medicine at University of Wollongong and prior to that Professor of General Practice and Deputy Dean (Education) at the University of New South Wales. He has a national and international reputation in health services research on prevention and management of chronic illness, with a focus on respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Other clinical, teaching and research interests include tobacco control, immunisation, and travel health. Professor Zwar has led the development and contributed to several sets of Australian and international clinical practice guidelines and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications. Over the course of his academic career Nick has maintained involvement in clinical practice, working part time as a general practitioner for over 30 years.

Professional admissions
* Fellow Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
* Fellow Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
* Member and past President, Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care
* Member, Editorial Board, Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases
* Member COPD-X Evaluation Committee, Lung Foundation Australia
* Chair, Editorial Committee, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice 9th edition
* Chair, Expert Advisory Group, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guidelines
* Deputy Chair, Australian Travel Health Advisory Group
* Quality Assurance Examiner for Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

A/Prof Ching Li Chai-Coetzer is a Sleep and Respiratory Physician at the Sleep Health Service, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, and an NHMRC Postdoctoral Early Career Research Fellow at Flinders University.

Her research work focuses predominantly on the use of ambulatory, community-based models of care for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with the goal of improving equity of access to sleep services worldwide, as well as strategies to optimise treatment adherence in patients with sleep disorders

Katinka specializes in the use and supply of performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs), which includes projects surrounding anabolic-androgenic steroids and drugs policy, education, harm minimization, and improving health services for people who use enhancement drugs. She also conducts research in relation to alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment services systems more broadly, amongst others around funding mechanisms, workforce characteristics, client outcomes and rurality. Katinka is the Founder and Director of the Human Enhancement Drugs Network (HEDN), is the Editor-in-Chief of Performance Enhancement & Health, has co-edited the Routledge published book Human Enhancement Drugs, and (co-)authored numerous peer-reviewed papers within the enhancement field.

Beng Eu is a GP, practice owner and researcher and holds a senior fellow position at the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Melbourne.

He is an International Speaker and Researcher in the fields of Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and HIV Medicine. He has published articles in journals and contributed to guidelines in his chosen fields.
He was the Principal Investigator of the PUSH! Study which studied the demographics and adverse effects of people on testosterone and Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs in Australia.

Prof Simone Strasser is a hepatologist at RPAH in Sydney. She is a past President of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia. She has a major clinical and research interest in viral hepatitis, advanced liver disease, liver cancer and liver transplantation. As Director of Hepatology Clinical Trials at RPAH, she is site principal investigator on multiple trials of new therapies for fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis, and liver cancer. She is a regular speaker in national and local educational programmes and is on multiple educational, advisory, and administrative boards and committees in Australia and internationally.

A/Prof Kurt Gebauer is a dermatologist and Director of Fremantle Dermatology as well as Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. He has contributed to over 40 clinical trials, authored over 40 journal articles and is an invited International Guest Speaker at various meetings and conventions.

Clinical A/Prof Palme is an Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgeon and is the Director of Head Neck Surgery at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse. Carsten is active in clinical research and has authored a number of peer reviewed publications and book chapters.

Dr Gillman has specific expertise in male sexual health and male sexual dysfunction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and is an affiliate member of Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine (AChSHM) which has been established within the Adult Medicine Division of the Royal Australian College of Physicians.

He has been invited to participate in numerous Australian national men’s health advisory boards and also has participated in international expert summit meetings.

Dr Gillman is frequently asked to present at national and international medical conferences and is regularly interviewed by the media as an expert on male sexual health issues.

He has worked on clinical research projects and has been involved in published clinical papers in international journals. He has co-authored Australian Guidelines for Clinical Practice and has also co-authored a chapter in the medical textbook ‘Lifestyle Medicine.’

Dr Gillman received his medical degree from the University of Queensland in 1988. He continues to support medical education in Queensland by teaching men’s health to senior General Practice training registrars and doctors undertaking the Family Planning Course in Queensland.