Scott Maier, senior public information representative, covers cardiology, orthopaedics, transplant medicine, School of Dentistry and School of Nursing, along with other areas. A native Texan, he has more than 20 years experience as a newspaper reporter and higher education communications specialist. Scott most recently was media relations director for the Texas A&M Health Science Center, handling media queries and outreach for six disciplines in nine cities. A graduate of Angelo State University, Scott also has been a reporter at several Texas newspapers.

Dr Livingstone’s research interests include dietary patterns, cardiometabolic health and personalised nutrition. She has expertise in dietary pattern methodologies to understand overall diet quality and how this relates to risk of obesity and chronic disease. She also has an interest in personalized nutrition and the role of genetic and phenotypic information. She is involved with a pan-European randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of personalized nutrition on on change in dietary and physical activity behaviors. She has a competitive track record relative to opportunity, with experience publishing over 50 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals in her field. Dr Livingstone also has experience on Editorial Boards, by acting as Associate Editor for Public Health Nutrition, and in peer-reviewing publications for high impact journals in the field of Nutrition and Health.

Ziba Kashef is a Senior Writer, Editor and Communications Consultant helping businesses and organisations reach strategic goals.

As one of Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology’s senior pathologists, Dr David Kanowski reports across all aspects of biochemistry including clinical chemistry, endocrinology and toxicology.

Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent at NPR. She joined NPR in 2014, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning. Since then the NPR Ed team has won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation, and a 2015 National Award for Education Reporting for the multimedia national collaboration, the Grad Rates project. Kamenetz is the author of several books. Her latest is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (PublicAffairs, 2018). Her previous books touched on student loans, innovations to address cost, quality, and access in higher education, and issues of assessment and excellence: Generation Debt; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, and The Test.

Environment and science correspondent,Comment editor @thescotsman and @edinburghpaper, interests include environment, politics, history, cycling, guitar, chess

Yasmin Jeffery is a journalist and producer with ABC News Digital.

Geoffrey James, a contributing editor for Inc.com, has authored a dozen books, hundreds of feature articles, and thousands of online columns, mostly about business and technology. He’s won awards, given speeches, helped companies triple sales, yada-yada-yada¦You know the drill. He also has a free newsletter.

Sumeyya is a reporter for The Age

Leigh Hopper is a media relations specialist with USC University Communications. She previously worked in communications for UCLA, in state government at the Texas Medical Board and as a medical reporter at the Houston Chronicle.

Dr Vincent Ho was appointed as a clinical academic gastroenterologist to the School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney in 2011. He completed his degree in medicine and surgery at the University of New South Wales in 2002. His basic and advanced physician training in gastroenterology were completed in Queensland.He is the convenor of the gastroenterology education program at the School of Medicine and teaches gastrointestinal basic science including gastrointestinal physiology. As a practising clinician he is passionate about making the science of the gut relevant and interesting.