Dr Daniel Cehic is a cardiologist and the Chief Medical Officer Cardiology at GenesisCare. He also has expertise in health management and regulation and completed a Master of Business Administration at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, USA. He currently holds several board and advisory appointments relating to healthcare in both the private and public sectors.

Dr Anita Sharma is the Practice Principal at Platinum Medical Centre and has been practicing as a GP for over 25 years here in Australia. During her time overseas before moving to Australia she has worked in South Pacific countries and the Middle East where she managed emergency departments, developed emergency medicine protocols and supervised junior doctors. She is an accredited supervisor for first- and second-year registrars (GPTQ)and medical students from University of Queensland and Griffith University. She is a member of National Faculty of Specific Interests (NFSI) RACGP for Diabetes and Obesity, co- author of the RACGP General Practice Management of type 2 Diabetes handbook, member of the Education Committee of the RACGP, Advisory Board member for REED education and member, State Advisory Committee (SAC) Queensland for Medical Defence Australia (MDA National).

Dr Wadsworth is a medical registrar at Royal North Shore, completing her specialty training in Gastroenterology. Harriet graduated from Sydney University in 2017 after completing her undergraduate degree in Medical sciences with first class honours and postgraduate medical training in the MD program. She has previously worked at Gosford Hospital, where she was involved in published research, largely in hepatology and cirrhosis.

Dr Marita Long is a Victorian based GP working across clinical practice, medical education and research. She has a strong interest in women’s health and cognitive health. She is a current committee member for the Australian Society of Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology, a member of the WIGP RACGP committee and is the current Vic/Tas representative on the board of the Australasian Menopause Society. Marita is actively engaged in various projects related to dementia, and is the first GP appointed as an Honorary Medical Advisor for Dementia Australia and a Clinical Assoc Professor for Wicking Dementia Education and Research Centre.

Prof Neal is a UK-trained physician who has 25 years’ experience in clinical, epidemiological, and public health research with a focus on heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Bruce has a longstanding interest in high blood pressure and diabetes and the potential for both clinical interventions and changes in the food supply to deliver health gains. His work has been characterised by its focus on collaboration, quantitation, translation and impact. He holds professorial appointments at UNSW Sydney, Imperial College London, and an honorary appointment at the University of Sydney. He has published some 450 scientific papers, and since 2016 has been identified by Thomson Reuters as one of ‘The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’, an acknowledgement provided to just a few thousand researchers across all disciplines, worldwide. He has particular expertise in the conduct of large-scale clinical trials addressing cardiovascular disease but has also done a significant body of work addressing food policy issues related to sugars, fats, portion size and food labelling.

Dr M Talat Uppal is a Gynaecologist and Visiting Medical Officer at Macquarie University and Hornsby Hospital. She is the Director of Women’s Health Road, an RACGP-accredited, national hybrid, multidisciplinary practice offering private menopause management services. Her niche expertise lies in managing abnormal menstrual bleeding (AUB), having pioneered Australia’s first digitally enhanced AUB Management Hub. She also leads the charity based, Bleed Better initiative, and founded the International Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Day to raise awareness. With a passion for digital health, Dr. Uppal research how technology enhances patient journeys and healthcare practices and is a RANZCOG service medal award recipient for excellence in GP clinical education.

Prof Richard Prince is a consultant endocrinologist and an academic teacher and researcher who has been practising for over 30 years in his special area of expertise. He is currently based at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Hollywood Hospital.

His qualifications include a undergraduate degrees in medicine and physiology ( MB. ChB., B.Sc) from Birmingham Univ, an MD from Melbourne Univ. on the subject of vitamin D metabolism and membership of both the UK and Australian College of Physicians (FRACP, MRCP(UK)).

His areas of expertise include general endocrinology with an emphasis on bone and mineral (calcium and phosphorus) disorders, thyroid disease and diabetes.

As a teacher and researcher he has supervised over 15 Ph D students, and many medical and science students. Dr Richard Prince has published over 200 research papers in top Journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Genetics.
As a clinician he aims to integrate his knowledge of disease processes into a management plan for the patient and their GP and advise on how this can be achieved successfully

Dr Lowy practices in Double Bay, Sydney at the Double Bay Specialist Suites and also offers Telehealth consultations.
Dr Lowy is a sexual health physician specialising in men’s health conditions, sexual medicine and counselling. He is specifically trained in the treatment of male sexual dysfunction (libido, erection, ejaculation disorders), relationship and sexual problems
affecting individuals and couples.
Dr Lowy has worked in the specialty of sexual medicine since 1992, with an interest in the physical and psychological causes and treatments. He obtained his original medical degree from the University of NSW. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine and obtained a Master of Psychological Medicine from the University of NSW. Dr Lowy is also a Fellow of the European Committee in Sexual Medicine.
Dr Lowy is a lecturer in Men’s Health at the University of NSW, Notre Dame University, Sydney University and Family Planning NSW. He is a founding member of the Society of Australian Sexologists (SAS) and has been awarded a life membership of ASSERT NSW.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr Lowy has been an investigator in numerous clinical drug trials of medical treatments for male sexual dysfunction. He has been a member of a number of pharmaceutical industry clinical advisory boards.

Amy is a senior research fellow at the Food & Mood Centre. She completed her Masters of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) and PhD at the University of Melbourne.
Clinically trained in neuropsychology, she is passionate about understanding the relationships between physical and mental health across the lifespan. A particular research interest of Amy’s is the gut and oral microbiomes and harnessing these to improve mental and brain health. In 2017 she was awarded the Jack Brockhoff Foundation Early Career Grant to examine the role of the microbiome in Alzheimer’s disease and cognition. She is also working on collaborative research regarding prenatal and early life predictors of child mental health at the Food & Mood Centre and the Barwon Infant Study.
Amy is an active communicator of science, and has written for The Conversation, The Research Whisperer and The Thesis Whisperer.

Prof Marshall is a medical clinician researcher and NHMRC Practitioner Fellow with specialist training in child health, vaccinology, and public health. She holds the position of Professor in Vaccinology at the University of Adelaide. Her main interests include meningococcal, Human Papillomavirus and pertussis infections and their prevention by immunisation.

Professor Felice Jacka is Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University. She is also founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research(ISNPR) and immediate past president of the Australian Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders. She has been responsible for the development of a highly innovative field of research establishing diet and nutrition as of importance to common mental disorders. These include the first studies to document a role for diet in adolescent depression the primary age of onset for common mental disorders the first study to identify both maternal and early life nutrition as important predictors of children’s mental health, and the first trial to show that dietary improvement can address depression. The results of the studies she has conducted have been highly influential, and she is widely recognized as international leader in the nascent but transformative field of Nutritional Psychiatry research.

Professor Jacka’s current research focuses closely on the links between diet, gut health, and mental and brain health. This work is being carried out with the ultimate goal of developing new, evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies for mental disorders. Professor Jacka has published >160 peer-reviewed scientific papers, the majority in high-impact journals in the mental health field including the American Journal of Psychiatry, World Psychiatry, BMC Medicine and Lancet Psychiatry. She is listed in the top ten most highly-cited researchers in mood disorders in Australia (Scopus).

Personally, Felice has a passion for food and medicine, as well as knowledge translation. She has written a book for the lay public called ‘Brain Changer’ through Pan Macmillan press in Australia (available internationally through Amazon) and is working on a children’s book with her husband (‘There’s a zoo in my poo’). Her hope is that her work will inspire individuals and families to prioritise a healthier way of eating to protect their mental and brain health over their lifespan, as well as influencing clinical practice for people affected by mental health problems. She is also passionate about prompting changes by policy-makers to improve the global food environment.

A/Prof Rebecca Deans is a Lecturer at UNSW and a Consultant Gynaecologist and Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecologist at RHW and SCH. She has completed a PhD in Asherman’s Syndrome from UNSW. She also has a Masters of Medicine (Reproductive Health Sciences & Human Genetics) from Sydney University. Rebecca holds the Certificate of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (CREI). She is immediate past president of ANZSPAG and her research and clinical interests include Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, Oncofertility and Fertility Surgery.