Rachel Clun is a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald

Dr Smathi Chong graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2001 and trained in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne. He has also completed a Diploma of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in Liverpool (UK).Dr Chong started working with Clinipath in 2013 and is happy to discuss the investigation and treatment of a broad range of community and hospital acquired infections. These include serology, multi-resistant bacterial infections, tropical & travel medicine and parasitology. He also does volunteer teaching at a hospital in West Timor, Indonesia.

I am currently a senior lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Westminster, London UK. My previous posts include: Lecturer and Coulson Trust Fellow (University of Leicester, UK), Vice Chancellor Fellow (University of Surrey, UK) and the Fogarty Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA.I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). I am also a Ambassador for the Royal Society of Biology.My areas of expertise includes molecular cardiology, cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, circadian biology, circadian clock genes, pineal gland, and the hormone melatonin.Using a multi-disciplinary approach (molecular, cell, organ and animal models), our focus is to identify and delineate novel gene regulatory networks in cardiac function and unravel mechanisms that control the expression of those genes critical to heart function, disease and human health, in particular cardiac hypertrophy, arrhythmia and heart failure.

Dr Ian Chambers is a graduate of the University of Otago. His training in pathology and medical microbiology began in Wellington, continued in the subspecialty of medical virology in Adelaide and was completed at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. He joined Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology in 1988. As Director of Microbiology and Immunoserology, Dr Chambers is responsible for those departments that are involved in the laboratory diagnosis of infectious disease, including bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, virology, immunoserology and molecular pathology. Although based in the laboratory, Dr Chambers is an infection control consultant to several private hospitals and serves on their infection control committees in that capacity. He also has an appointment as Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Pathology at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame

Felicity Caldwell is state political reporter at the Brisbane Times

Dr Linda Calabresi is an Australian-based health professional. Linda is trained as a GP (General Practitioner) and has practices located in North Ryde, Artarmon.

Bethany Cadman was born and raised in Scotland and now resides in Brighton where she lives with her partner and rather disobedient cocker spaniel pup.Inspired during her MA in Creative Writing from Sussex University she began writing ‘Doctor Vanilla’s Sunflowers’, her debut novel, finishing it a few years later while working as a freelance writer.

Dr Wendy Burton graduated from the University of Queensland in 1987. She is married with three boys and enjoys the variety and challenge of General Practice. Wendy is passionate about helping to build a stronger society and working to improve health outcomes, both within her consulting room and by working on connecting the health care sectors.
In addition to her principal work role as a GP, she works at a local, state and national level in the maternity and early childhood space.
Her principal interests are in Women’s Health, Antenatal Care, Paediatrics and Asthma.

Journalist. Producer, Health Report and Ockham’s Razor on @RadioNational. My views, not ABC’s