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Dr Chiu completed her medical degree with Honours at the University of Sydney. She also completed a Bachelor of Medical Science and following a dedicated research year, graduated with First Class Honours. Her academic pursuits continued, completing a PhD supported by prestigious scholarships from University College London and Cambridge University. Dr. Chiu has contributed significantly to peer-reviewed publications and authored a book chapter for Oxford University Press. Her ophthalmology training was undertaken at Sydney Eye Hospital, with further subspecialty Fellowship training in refractive surgery, including a further post-graduate academic qualification in this field. With over a decade of experience, Dr. Chiu has been a dedicated medical educator, specializing in teaching cataract surgery, including advanced and complex techniques. Currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Education at Harvard University, Dr. Chiu remains deeply committed to medical education. Beyond her clinical practice in private and public hospitals, she actively engages in advisory boards and participates in clinical trials focusing on Extended Depth of Focus (EDOF) IOLs. Dr. Chiu is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences, sharing her expertise in refractive eye surgery.
Dr Baulderstone graduated from Flinders University Medical School in 1996. On completing her internship at the Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park SA she worked in Paediatrics at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide. She was awarded a Post-graduate Diploma in Child Health in 1998. Dr Baulderstone then specialised in family medicine and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2004. She then trained in the Griffiths Child Developmental Assessments in 2010 and in Medical Psychology (Interpersonal Therapy) in 2011. She has worked at the Oakden Medical Centre since 2013. Dr Baulderstone is passionate about helping parents with the “best and hardest” job in the world in the world. Her proudest professional achievements in the last year have been becoming a certified provider of the two following evidence based programs: “What’s the Buzz” child social and emotional skills programme (July 2016) and the Melbourne University “Tuning in to Kids” Parenting Program (May 2017). Dr Michaela Baulderstone provides special clinics for child health and wellbeing and parenting support. These include the Kids Clinic and the “Potties & Pillows” Sleep and Toileting Clinic. She has undertaken targeted training in primary care child health, child behaviour, parenting counselling and interpersonal therapy.
A/Prof Amanda Gilligan is a consultant neurologist with specialist interests in stroke medicine, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. She has a passion for teaching, research and new developments in clinical neurology. In the 1990’s, as the study coordinator, she launched the first national thrombolysis trial in acute stroke. After neurology training, based at Austin and Royal Melbourne Hospitals, she completed a PhD in stroke medicine with NH& MRC scholarship support. She has held senior roles at Eastern Health and continues her long association with Austin Health in their stroke service.She joined Epworth Healthcare in 2016 as the Director of the new Epworth Eastern Neurosciences Unit, based at Box Hill. She has been pivotal in the development of their Rapid Access Inpatient TIA service. In 2018, she was appointed as Director of Epworth Neurosciences Clinical Institute which oversees neurology, neurosurgery and spinal surgery across 4 Epworth sites, including 43 neurologists, 34 neurosurgeons and 10 orthopaedic spinal surgeons. Epworth appointments: Director, Epworth Neurosciences Clinical Institute Director, Epworth Eastern Neurosciences Unit
Sally joined the University of Essex in 2019. She graduated as a Sports Therapist in 2001 and has since spent time in academia, sport and clinical practice in the UK and in South Africa. She completed her PhD in Human Movement Science at the University of Pretoria in 2014 and an MSc in Sports Nutrition at Liverpool John Moores University in 2019. She is a member of the Society of Sports Therapists, Sport and Exercise Nutrition register and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Research interests include training and nutrition for endurance sports (with a particular focus on iron-distance triathlon masters athletes) and physical activity and health.
Dr Chris McManus is a lecturer at the School of Sports Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences and is Cluster Lead for the Human Performance Research Group at the University of Essex. In these roles, he is responsible for designing and delivering courses in sports nutrition, exercise physiology, and exercise testing. He also conducts research, secures external research funding, and provides sports science and nutrition services to athletes.
Dr Henry Chung is a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science (SES) and is a part of the School of Sport, Rehabilitation, and Exercise Sciences (SRES) at the University of Essex. Henry is also the schools Employability Development Director (EDD). Henry’s background is in Sport & Exercise Sciences, where he completed his Sports Science BSc degree 2015. Further a Sport & Exercise Science MSc degree in 2016 at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge. Following this, he worked at Addenbrookes hospital’s Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) and Cambridge University Hospital (CUH), in Epidemiology for the University of Cambridge (UoC) (2016 – 2018). In this role he supported the completion of large scale research projects for the Medical Research Council (MRC). Henry was awarded the Vice Chancellor Scholarship fund, where he then successfully completed and was awarded his Ph.D in Exercise Physiology and Genetics (2022). During this time was an Associate Lecturer in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition for the School of Psychology and Sports Science, at Anglia Ruskin University.
Dr Anthony Marinucci is a generalist aged care practitioner with extensive experience in the aged care sector. He holds the position of national chair for the RACGP specific interest group for Aged Care, in which he is actively involved in advocacy and policy consultation for improving aged care standards in this country. After finishing his medical degree at Sydney University, Dr. Marinucci completed his residency in the Sydney Local Health District (SLHD), gaining experience in the acute geriatrics services at Concord and Canterbury hospitals. As a registrar, he further pursued his interest in aged care by being heavily involved in outreach medical care to RACF’s during his specialist primary care fellowship. He is now the admitting local medical officer for multiple residental aged care facilities in the Inner-West, North Shore and Eastern suburbs of Sydney, offering regular outreach (mobile) consultation and palliative care support. He works closely with both public and private local specialist services to deliver best-practice, evidence based and multi-disciplinary care to his patients. He has a special interest in the collaborative care of those people living with dementia. As an accredited GPMHSC mental health care provider, he is able to offer bulk-billed focused psychological therapy (incl. CBT, Interpersonal therapy and EMDR). Dr. Marinucci is currently available to accept new RACF patients, including ageing in place, low care and high care residents. He is available for limited consulting hours weekly in his rooms, to support those still living in the community, outside of residential care.
Professor Kaarin Anstey is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute. She is also co-Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing as well as a conjoint Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia. Anstey’s research programs focus on the causes, consequences and prevention of cognitive ageing, and dementia. She has developed risk assessment tools interventions to reduce risk of cognitive decline and dementia and conducted epidemiological and data synthesis projects. Anstey currently leads ‘MyCoach’ – a randomised controlled trial of a multidomain intervention for older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Subjective Cognitive Decline. A second focus of her work is on older driver safety and in this field Anstey has also developed and validated risk assessment tools and interventions. Anstey was a member of the WHO Guideline Development Committee for the Guidelines on Risk Reduction for Cognitive Decline and Dementia and is a member of the Governance Committee of the Global Council on Brain Health.
Brenton Prosser is Professor of Public Policy and Leadership at the University of NSW and the Director of the UNSW Public Policy Hub. Brenton has held senior research positions at at Australian and UK universities. In these roles, he has led national health, education and social service evaluations for Australian Government, while he also specialises in capability building with the public sector. Brenton also specialises in education, public health, mental health, medicalisation and policy, while he is known for his expertise in ADHD. He has also researched extensively in governance, policy networks and democratic engagement. In the UK, he has co-led research into citizen’s assemblies and devolution, as well as explored avenues for research impact in Westminster. As a former political Chief-of-Staff, he has worked extensively in the area of minority government and public policy, publishing a handbook on this area in 2016. He has published four books, including a guide to ADHD, which has sold over 5,000 copies internationally. His latest book, Minority Policy (MUP), looks at the influence of independents and marginal members on contemporary public policy. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor (Medicine) at Notre Dame University.
Peter is a clinical pharmacist who has worked in the hospital, academic and community sphere during a career that has spanned over 40 years. He has conducted thousands of medication reviews for patients in nursing homes and in the community. Dr Peter Tenni M Pharm (Curtin), PhD (UTAS), Cert Pain Sci
A/Prof Samantha Hocking is an Endocrinologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and a Clinical Academic at the University of Sydney. A/Prof Hocking’s main research interest is precision medicine exploring how personalised medicine can both predict, prevent and improve the management of metabolic disease, particularly diabetes. In addition, she is working with fellow researchers at The Boden Institute and the CPC-RPA Clinic on projects in obesity, bariatric surgery, metabolic syndrome and diabetes and liver disease.
Professor Brendon Yee is a Staff Specialist in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Medical Director of Respiratory Failure Services at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He is also a consultant for Rural Outreach Services in Sleep and Respiratory Medicine in Central Western NSW, previous Chair of the Professional Standards Committee of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and a member of the Clinical Committee of the Australasian Sleep Association.
Prof Yee is a graduate of the University of Otago, New Zealand and completed his sleep fellowship in Wellington, New Zealand and then Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. He has a PhD from his research on the metabolic effects of sleep apnea and the effect of weight loss, and is a previous Young Investigator Award Winner of the Australasian Sleep Association.
An experienced clinician, John is known globally for his breadth of clinical research into obesity and its complications as well as weight loss treatments and their effects on health. He rates in the top researchers worldwide in the fields of obesity; weight loss; morbid obesity; and bariatric surgery (expertscape.com). He has over 300 original research, review and guideline publications.
Focused on seeing findings translated into clinical practice and on patient advocacy for the obese, John is involved in a wide range of organizations both in Australia and internationally.
Clinical Associate Professor Ralph Audehm is a GP of 35 years experience. He is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne. He has a broad interest in chronic disease management, diabetes, heart disease and transitional research.
Dr Reema Kohli is a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology accredited by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG), with special interest in the management of pelvic floor disorders, pelvic floor reconstructive surgery and minimally invasive laparoscopic and vaginal surgery. Dr Kohli believes in ensuring personalised care for her patients by focusing on informed and shared decision making and keeping her patients’ wishes at the core of her practice. She has extensive experience in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology that she has gained through training and working as a specialist across rural, regional and tertiary hospitals in Australia and India over the last 15 years. She has completed her advanced training in obstetrics and gynaecology at Box Hill Hospital in Victoria before achieving Fellowship of RANZCOG. After completing specialist training she spent an additional year of training in urogynaecology at Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland. Working with an excellent team of urogynaecologists headed by Dr Malcolm Frazer helped her learn specialised techniques of pelvic floor surgery. Reema has also worked under the apprenticeship of Dr RK Mishra, a pioneer in advanced laparoscopy in India to hone her skills in pelvic floor surgery/endoscopy. Her current public appointments are at Eastern Health and Monash Health as a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology. She is also a RANZCOG-accredited training supervisor and a member of Board of Examiners for Specialist trainees in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology. Dr Kohli has been awarded for her research on predictors of fetal growth restriction and new techniques to better visualise urinary tract in laparoscopy at various national and international conferences. She has been actively involved in teaching medical students at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. In addition to her role as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, she engages in teaching medical students at Epworth Clinical School. She has recently been awarded the prestigious Brown Craig Travelling Fellowship By RANZCOG Women’s Foundation to pursue further research and training in advanced vaginal surgery. When not working, she loves to paint and travel with her husband Rohan who has been a GP for 10 years and is now pursuing specialist training in pain medicine. She works with multiple media on canvas and is now learning the ancient Indian art of Tanjore painting. She is fluent in English, Hindi, Urdu. In addition to looking after all aspects of gynaecological care, Dr Kohli’s clinical interests include: • Treatment of common urogynaecological conditions such as pelvic organ prolapse (through non-surgical and surgical approaches like vaginal hysterectomy), urinary incontinence, prevention of prolapse procedures (vault suspension) and procedures like colpocleisis (in patients not fit for major/extensive surgery). • Advanced laparoscopic roscopic surgical approaches including surgery for complex ectopic pregnancy, cysts in ovary, removal of uterus (hysterectomy), removal of fibroids and treatment of endometriosis. • Treatment of vulval disorders like chronic itching, discharge and warts, vulval skin diseases and precancer.