Dr. Rick Nauert has over 25 years experience in clinical, administrative and academic healthcare. He is currently an associate professor for Rocky Mountain University of Health Professionals doctoral program in health promotion and wellness. Dr. Nauert began his career as a clinical physical therapist and served as a regional manager for a publicly traded multidisciplinary rehabilitation agency for 12 years. He has masters degrees in health-fitness management and healthcare administration and a doctoral degree from The University of Texas at Austin focused on health care informatics, health administration, health education and health policy. His research efforts included the area of telehealth with a specialty in disease management.

Dr Esther Myint graduated, in 1979, from the Institute of Medicine 1, Rangoon, Burma, and received her qualifications in general pathology, in 1985, from the same institute. She won a scholarship from WHO to study for her MSc in immunology at the University of Birmingham, UK, awarded in 1992. Dr Myint was retrained in anatomical pathology at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and received her FRCPA Fellowship in 2011. Dr Myint has considerable undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience and is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney and The University of Notre Dame. She is a member of the overseas-trained specialist assessment committee of the Royal College of Pathology, Australasia, and commits herself to the education programs of pathology by the RCPA. Dr Myint joined Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology in May, 2014.

Dr Michael Musker has 30 years practice experience in mental health nursing, and has written publications on the genetics of depression, bullying, and precision medicine in depression. He arrived in Australia in 2001 and was employed as a Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health for the University of Adelaide. Mike has led on a number of research projects on depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, bullying, and mental health disorders. He completed his PhD at the University of Adelaide whilst working as the Advanced Clinical Services Coordinator of the Forensic Mental Health Service of South Australia. The research training focused on perpetrator induced traumatic stress and included interviewing forensic mental health patients and prisoners about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other comorbid disorders. He is currently a senior research fellow in the Mental Health and Wellbeing team at South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.

I am a general practitioner. I divide my career between clinical practice and academic work. I am particularly interested in evidence-based medicine and prevention (especially of cardiovascular disease).

Meaghan Mobbs, M.A. is a West Point graduate, Afghanistan Veteran, and former Army Captain who is currently an advanced Clinical Psychology doctoral student at Columbia University, Teachers College. Mobbs is also a David O’Connor Fellow, Tillman Military Scholar, and a Noble Argus and National Military Family Association Scholarship recipient.

I have special expertise in psychology and psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology and paediatrics, as well as having a great interest in general medicine.

Carole Tanzer Miller is a writer for MedicalXpress

Dr Alistair McGregor is a graduate of Otago University (1982), and trained in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in Christchurch, Canberra and Sydney before moving to Hobart in 1996. He worked as full time staff specialist and was Director of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Royal Hobart Hospital for a number of years before commencing diagnostic practice at Hobart Pathology. He is an active member of the Australian Society of Microbiology and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases and sits on the RCPA Specialist Advisory Committee for Infectious Diseases.

Adrian’s primary research interest is in the effects of vitamin D on human health. His work combines laboratory investigation of the effects of vitamin D on the immune system with a series of multi-centre clinical trials and meta-analyses, investigating the potential role of vitamin D supplementation as an agent to prevent respiratory infections and non-communicable diseases.He is clinical Chief Investigator for the Vitamin D and Longevity trial (VIDAL, a NIHR-funded study investigating effects of vitamin D supplementation on all-cause mortality in UK adults aged 65-84 years) and the ViDiKids trial (a MRC-funded study investigating whether vitamin D can prevent tuberculosis infection among primary schoolchildren in Cape Town, South Africa). He sits on the NICE Public Health Advisory Committee on Vitamin D, and works clinically in the Tuberculosis Clinic at Barts Health NHS Trust. Adrian has an active PhD programme and enquiries from prospective PhD or MD students interested in respiratory infection and / or vitamin D are welcome.Adrian gained a B Med Sci degree in Epidemiology and Public Health from Newcastle University in 1995, and graduated from Newcastle Medical School in the following year. He then gained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from Liverpool University before working as a Medical Officer in South Africa. He returned to Liverpool to continue medical training in 1999, and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2001. Adrian joined Queen Mary as a lecturer in Respiratory Medicine in 2002, and established a programme of laboratory and clinical research into the immunomodulatory actions of vitamin D in tuberculosis. He received his PhD in 2010, and is currently conducting clinical trials of vitamin D supplementation to prevent respiratory infections and non-communicable diseases in the UK, South Africa and Mongolia. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2017.

Mike Mariani is a writer and educator based in Hoboken, NJ. His work has appeared in the LA Review of Books, the Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Hazlitt magazine and others.

Jo Marchant, PhD, is an award-winning science journalist, bestselling author and speaker. She writes on topics including the mind-body connection and what science can reveal about the mysteries of our past.