Dr Robinson has worked as a specialist at the Department of Allergy and Immunology at the Royal Children’s Hospital since 2008. She has had an active role in training and mentoring nursing staff, paediatric trainees and general paediatricians. She is also a lecturer and examiner for the University of Melbourne. She holds an honorary research fellow position at the Murdoch Research Institute and has been involved in a number of major allergy studies including the HealthNuts Study and the Probiotics Peanut Oral Immunotherapy Trial (PPOIT). She is also a co-author of the Allergy section of the Australian Asthma Handbook, which forms Australia’s national guidelines for asthma management.
Marnie takes a holistic approach to the management of allergic diseases and is passionate about ensuring her patients receive excellent care.
Marnie’s areas of interests include: food allergy, asthma, allergic rhinitis (hay fever), eczema, insect and drug allergy, immunotherapy and primary immune deficiency

Dr. Laura Hart is a Senior Research Fellow in the Engaging Minds in Body Image and Eating Disorders (EMBodIED) Research Team at La Trobe University’s School of Psychology and Public Health, and in the Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Hart has been working in population mental health for over a decade. Her research focuses on developing, evaluating and disseminating training programs for the public to improve prevention, awareness and help-seeking for mental illness. Her research has been recognized with multiple awards, including a 2016 Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science, and a 2017 Australia Endeavour Award to spend 6-months working with Harvard University’s Strategic Training Initative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders in Boston, USA.

Dr Wong is a gastroenterologist from Sydney. She has a broad range of interests in gastroenterology. She investigates and manages all gastroenterology conditions including functional gut disorders, bowel cancer screening, liver disease and inflammatory bowel disease. Dr Wong is currently a staff specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital.

Prof Adrian Esterman has over 40 years of experience as a Biostatistician and Epidemiologist. His career includes 7 years working as a WHO staff member in Geneva and Copenhagen. As an Epidemiologist, he is a generalist, working across most areas of health and medicine, including working with GPs. However, he has spent much of the last 4 years focusing on COVID-19. He is now considered a leading expert in the epidemiology of COVID-19 and is in constant demand by the media. He is ranked as a researcher in the top 0.2% of scholars worldwide. He has written 36 articles for The Conversation, with over 2.8 million reads.

Dr Jim Tsaltas is head of Gynaecological Endoscopy and Endometriosis Surgery at Monash Health and Monash University. He is also past President of AGES (Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery Society). He is a Clinical Director and Senior IVF Specialist at Melbourne IVF. He has presented and published widely both nationally and Internationally. One of his main research interests is the impact of endometriosis and adenomyosis on Infertility and IVF outcomes.

Louise has a special interest in Aged Care nutrition, with 16 years of experience in this industry. Her mission is to bring deliciousness back into aged care, by supporting staff to create tasty, quality food that makes the residents want to lick their plates clean! She follows the motto Through the stomach, to the heart – we show we care for people through good food and company. She thinks outside the box when it comes to ways to achieve this, and works together with catering staff to develop and create quality and affordable meals.

Louise is based in Townsville and provides services to the surrounding areas as well.

Dr Lisa Clarke is a specialist haematologist who cares for patients with both malignant and non malignant conditions. She holds dual fellowship with both the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia having completed the majority of her training through the Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick. She has appointments at Sydney Adventist Hospital and the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood

Director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease

GP; President, Australian Society for Psychological Medicine; Senior Lecturer, Primary Care Clinical Unit, University of Queensland