Professor Bruce Mann is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Melbourne and a specialist breast surgeon. He was appointed the Director of the Combined RMH and Women’s Breast Service in 2007, and the Director of the VCCC Breast Tumour Stream in 2016. His clinical interest relates to all those with suspected or proven early breast cancer, where he was involved in the introduction of sentinel node biopsy to Australia, the appropriate use of contrast imaging in early breast cancer and safe de-intensification of treatment for early beast cancer. His research interests focus on optimising the early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. He is co-chair of the expert advisory group for the ROSA (Roadmap to Optimising Screening in Australia) project of the Cancer Council of Australia. He is the instigator and Principal Investigator of the PROSPECT trial, investigating the role on MRI in the selective omission of radiotherapy in early breast cancer, and the national PI of the UK-led POSNOC trial of omission of additional axillary treatment in those with limited disease in the sentinel nodes. He led an Australian validation study of the DCISionRT assay in DCIS and is PI of an Australian registry of this assay.

Adjunct Associate Professor, The Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between the University of Sydney and Cancer Council NSW, and Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney

Dr Henry Cutler is the inaugural director of the Centre for the Health Economy at Macquarie University, where he investigates the Health Economy at the macro level, with particular focus on the interdependencies of these systems with each other, and the broader economy. Henry has led or co-authored over 80 health economics consultancy publications on a broad range of topics for federal and state government departments, government agencies, and Australian and international non-government organisations. His research focuses on economic evaluation, policy analysis, and forecasting in health and human services using a variety of economic tools and modelling techniques. He undertaken major studies on health and aged care reform, private health insurance, hospital efficiency, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, blood products, integrated care, hearing services, health care workforce, and mental health care. He has a PhD (Economics) from UNSW, where his research focused on increasing efficiency within the health care system by allocating government spending to areas most valued by society. Prior to Macquarie University, Henry was the national lead of KPMG’s health economics group, and led the Sydney health and social policy team at Access Economics. He has also been a senior economist at the Centre for International Economics, and spent eight years working in financial markets in Sydney and London.

A/Prof Teh is a fertility specialist and gynecologist at City Fertility and Epworth Healthcare (Freemason and Eastern). She is also co-medical director of Public Fertility Services at the Royal Women’s Hospital. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Monash University, Masters of Reproductive Medicine from University of New South Wales and Doctor of philosophy (PhD) from University of Melbourne.

A/Prof Teh has more than 15 years’ experience in the field of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. She completed her general specialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash Medical Centre, before joining Reproductive Services Unit at The Royal Women’s Hospital and subsequently City Fertility.

A/Prof Teh has a passion in research and teaching. She has been appointed honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and is actively involved in supervision of both clinical and research students and specialist trainees.

Her main research interest is on endometrium, implantation failure and to improve obstetric outcomes following IVF treatments. She has received multiple scholarships, research grants and awards during her career.

Prof Andrew Sindone, Cardiologist; Director of the Heart Failure Unit and Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Concord Hospital; Head, Department of Cardiology, Ryde Hospital
Prof Andrew Sindone B. Med (hons), MD, FRACP, FCSANZ, FNHFA is Director of the Heart Failure Unit and Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Concord Hospital and Head of Department of Cardiology at Ryde Hospital. He runs the Concord Hospital Heart Failure Clinic, research, rehabilitation and outreach programs. He has been Principal Investigator in 50 international, multi-centre, clinical trials and authored over 100 articles. He is a Co-Chairman of the NSW Cardiovascular Expert Reference Group, Fellow of the Heart Foundation of Australia and is co-author of the Australian and the Asia Pacific Heart Failure Guidelines.

Dr Ted Wu, Endocrinologist; Senior Specialist Endocrinologist, Director, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Diabetes Centre; Director of Physician Training, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
Dr Ted Wu is a senior specialist endocrinologist, Director of the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital Diabetes Centre and Director of Physician Training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He has a long-term interest clinical diabetes, and teaching and research into diabetes complications and novel treatments. In 1998 he joined the RPA Diabetes Centre, formulating and delivering novel educational programs in clinical diabetes. He has published numerous articles, abstracts and book chapters and has been an invited speaker to many international symposia. He was instrumental in establishing RPA Hospital’s Diabetes Centre as a National Association of Diabetes Centre’s ‘Centre of Excellence’ and Australia’s only International Diabetes Federation ‘Centre of Education’.

Prof Kovacic graduated from The University of Melbourne Medical School in 1994, and then undertook residency and cardiology specialty training in interventional cardiology at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, becoming a Fellow of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2003. Prof Kovacic then completed a PhD in cardiovascular medicine at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

In 2007, he was elected as a Fellow of The American College of Cardiology and relocated to the USA, to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. At the NIH, Professor Kovacic discovered critical new pathways that lead to blockage of the body’s blood vessels. He then moved to The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. In parallel with his vital ongoing research to define new ways to prevent and treat vascular disease, Prof Kovacic is a practicing clinical cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, specialising in vascular disease and blockages of the heart arteries.

Prof Kovacic has authored numerous scientific and clinical papers on heart and vascular disease and serves on a number of NIH committees. He has a particular interest in unraveling the pathobiology of the vascular diseases, fibromuscular dysplasia and spontaneous coronary artery dissection.

Dr Megan Lee is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Bond University, teaching research methods, statistics, and psychology subjects. Dr Lee has a PhD in Nutritional Psychiatry and is the Secretary of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR). Dr Lee has published evidence-based research in diet and mental health, intuitive & disordered eating, body image in the postpartum, and positive psychology.

Dr Amy Burton is a lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Recently, Amy’s research has focused on the prevention and early intervention of eating disorders in young people and Amy is the co-director of the Body Image and Eating Academic Network at UTS. In addition to her academic role at UTS, Amy is a practising clinical psychologist and clinical supervisor to early career psychologists. Having worked in and with headspace centres for over 8 years, Amy is passionate advocate for youth mental health, accessible mental health care, and supporting early career mental health clinicians.

Kathy Beck is an experienced Paediatric Dietitian with expertise in food allergy and a passion to support families living with food allergy. Her philosophy emphasises focusing on what children with allergies are able to eat. Kathy is the past chair of the Dietitian Committee of ASCIA and has worked with other experts to produce ASCIA resources, in addition to supporting other dietitians.

Prof Elizabeth Denney-Wilson is Professor of Nursing in the Sydney Nursing School. She has academic qualifications in nursing, public health and epidemiology. Since completing her PhD in 2005, her research has focused on obesity prevention and management with a focus on the development of brief interventions (including mHealth interventions) targeting infant and young child feeding that can be scaled up and implemented. Prof Denney-Wilson has long term collaborations with researchers across a broad range of health disciplines from UNSW, Deakin and Flinders University. She was recently appointed to a WHO guidelines committee on child obesity prevention and management and the NHMRC clinical obesity guidelines committee.

Kylie is an experienced legal professional with a strong background in litigation, dispute resolution and class actions, specialising in running group proceedings on behalf of people who have suffered injury or loss as a result of corporate or government wrongdoing. She is also a playwright and mother of two young children.