Rashi is part of a select group of doctors in Melbourne to obtain the highest level of postgraduate qualification as a fertility subspecialist, CREI (certificate in reproductive endocrinology and infertility). She uses her knowledge, experience and passion for fertility medicine to help her patients achieve the best outcomes possible.

Rashi has worked in two of Australia’s leading fertility units, including the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne and draws on this experience to provide her patients with up to date and evidence based care. She is passionate about offering appropriate advice, investigation and treatment to her patients. Where less invasive fertility treatments are indicated such as lifestyle changes and ovulation induction, she is a strong advocate of them. If it is deemed that IVF is required an individualised approach is used. With the support of her nursing, embryology and reception staff at Genea, Rashi is able to help her patients achieve the best success rates possible.

A/Prof Piyush Srivastava is a Cardiovascular Imaging Specialist at Advara HeartCare. His areas of interest and research include valvular heart disease, heart failure, diabetic cardiovascular disease, cardio-oncology and all aspects of non-invasive cardiac imaging including stress, trans thoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography as well as Cardiac MRI/CT. A widely published clinical researcher, A/Prof Srivastava holds a Clinical Associate Professor position at the University of Melbourne and supervises Cardiology Fellows as well as PhD candidates. He has also been appointed Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, with numerous publications in highly regarded peer reviewed journals from around the world.

Yoni K. Ashar, PhD is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He completed his doctorate in clinical psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder and an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine. Yoni’s research uses functional MRI brain imaging, natural language processing, and other clinical and computational tools to understand how mind and brain processes influence health, especially chronic pain. A main research focus is investigating a new class of psychological and neuroscience-based treatments aiming for recovery from chronic pain.

My main research interest is human biological aging; how to measure it in human cohorts, understanding causal pathways in aging and identify geroprotectors to repurpose for age-related diseases. Markers of human biological aging can be telomere length, epigenetic clocks, functional aging, frailty index, etc. I study such markers in longitudinal data from several twin studies of aging (SATSA, GENDER, HARMONY, OCTO-Twin, TwinGene) within the Swedish Twin Registry and also using UK biobank data. Methods that I use include longitudinal modelling, causal analyses using drug target Mendelian Randomization, and large-scale genome-wide approaches.

I am a PhD student at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. My research focuses on biological aging and frailty, with an overall aim to enhance our understanding of the biological mechanisms of aging and improve management of frail patients in clinical settings.

Associate Professor Yu is currently a senior consultant geriatrician and Deputy Director of Aged and Extended Care Services (AECS) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Central Adelaide Local Health Network. He is also a clinician researcher and completed his PhD study with Dean’s commendation, University of Adelaide, in 2014 on the topic of “Sarcopenia in Older People” under the supervision of Professor Renuka Visvanathan. The focus of his study looks at developing a tool for detecting sarcopenia at an early stage, so that preventive intervention can be introduced before detrimental effects set in. He has presented his study both nationally and internationally and is continuing to refine his work in this area.

Associate Professor Yu is Associate Investigator with the University of Adelaide School of Medicine’s NHMRC Centre Research Excellence Frailty Trans-Disciplinary Research To Achieve Healthy Ageing based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital campus and Basil Hetzel Institute (Basil Hetzel Institute). As a Clinical Associate Professor, he is also working in the Geriatrics Training and Research with Aged Care (G-TRAC) Centre in Adelaide.

Associate Professor Yu is also the Deputy Director of Training at AECS, and is involved in coordinating specialist geriatric training at The Queen Elizabeth. He has supervised more than 13 advanced trainees in Geriatric Medicine and many have secured teaching award and won prizes for research projects. He was invited to the Advanced Training Committee for Geriatric Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and was appointed as the Lead in Site Accreditation for Geriatric Medicine on this committee. He is also current member of the Geriatric Medicine Education and Training (GMET) subcommittee of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) and also holds a lead role in site accreditation. In 2017, he was elected as the inaugural South Australian councillor to the Australian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research (ANZSFFR) and nominated President elect in 2021.

He has played a major role in the establishment and development of this new society. Associate Professor Yu was invited to join Sarcopenia Diagnostic Taskforce, the work that led to the consensus on operational definition of Sarcopenia in Australia. In 2019, as an ongoing ANZSSFR effort in establishing recognition of sarcopenia clinical condition in Australia, Sarcopenia was awarded an Australian ICD-10 code. Associate Professor Yu was a member of the organising committee for the ANZSSFR annual scientific conference held in Adelaide (2016) and then New Zealand (2017).

Manuela Callari, PhD, is an award-winning freelance science and medical journalist. She has a PhD in medical science, a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in material science, and a post-graduate degree in science communication.

Associate Professor Peta Stapleton is a registered clinical and health Psychologist who embraces evidence-based and innovative techniques. Peta is a world-leading researcher in Emotional Freedom Techniques (‘Tapping’) and has been awarded many achievements including the 2014 Harvey Baker Research Award for meticulous research (Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology, USA), the 2015 Global Weight Management Congress Industry Professional Award of Excellence, the 2015 Gold Coast Women in Business Women in Change Award and the 2018 Innovation and Technology Award Winner. In 2016 Peta was awarded the Most Contribution to the Field (energy psychology) and was named the 2019 Research Supervisor of the Year at Bond University. In 2019 Peta was also named Psychologist of the Year (by the Australian Allied Health Awards).

Peta is a featured EFT Tapping presenter on Gaia, SBS Warner Brother Myth vs Medicine research expert, yearly presenter on the international Tapping World Summit, and is featured on Prime USA (Chasing The Present Film). Peta 2018 TEDx Is Therapy Facing a Revolution is now hosted on the official TED website. Peta is one of two Bond University Gold Coast Tourism and Business Event Ambassadors, bringing conferences and events to the Gold Coast.

Lakshini has over 10 years of experience in healthcare communications and medical education. She is passionate about transforming complex science into compelling stories that drive better treatment outcomes. Lakshini has successfully supported the delivery of strategic, scientific, and commercial programmes across the communications spectrum. A true scientist at heart, Lakshini holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Auckland.

Lindy Willmott is a Professor of Law at Queensland University of Technology and a member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at the University. She researches in the area of the law that regulates the end of life, and particularly voluntary assisted dying, and publishes extensively in this field. Professor Willmott is the co-author of many text books in a range of areas and the website ‘End of Life Law in Australia’. She also is an editor of the text Health Law in Australia.

Ben White is Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (Professorial level, 2020-2024) in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at the Faculty of Business & Law, Queensland University of Technology. His area of research focus is end-of-life decision-making with a particular focus on voluntary assisted dying.

Ben graduated with first class Honours and a University Medal in Law from the Queensland University of Technology. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to complete a DPhil at Oxford University, where his doctoral thesis investigated the role that consultation plays in the law reform process. Before joining the Law School, he worked as an Associate at the Supreme Court of Queensland and at Legal Aid Queensland. Between 2005 and 2007, Ben was appointed as the full-time Commissioner of the Queensland Law Reform Commission where he had carriage of the Guardianship Review on behalf of the Commission. He also served as a part-time Commissioner between 2007 and 2010.

Ben was a foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research for six years (2013-2018). He still co-leads the End-of-Life Research Program within the Centre. He has published over 150 book chapters and journal articles in the area of health law, with a particular focus on end-of-life decision-making. His work is interdisciplinary with publications in law, medicine, bioethics, social science and psychology journals as well as those that have an interdisciplinary focus. He is an editor of the leading text Health Law in Australia (2018, 3rd ed, Thomson) and International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform: Politics, Persuasion and Persistence (2021, Cambridge University Press).

Ben has been part of interdisciplinary teams that have been awarded $45 million in the field of end-of-life decision-making, including from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council and Commonwealth and State governments. His five Australian Research Council grants have examined different aspects of law, policy and practice at the end of life. Key topics investigated include: What role does law play in medical decision-making? To what extent do doctors know and follow the law? Why is medical treatment that is futile/non-beneficial provided to patients at the end of life? How many people make a will or engage in advance care planning and why? What does the community know about the law of end-of-life decision-making? Do patients and families know their rights and responsibilities when making end-of-life decisions?

Ben is currently undertaking a four-year full-time Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2020-2024) that aims to develop a new and holistic approach to regulating voluntary assisted dying. This project will enhance end-of-life care in Australia through better regulation and will draw on Canadian and Belgian case studies. Ben is a Chief Investigator on a National Health and Medical Research Council project involving an intervention to address futile or non-beneficial treatment at the end of life. He has also been an Associate Investigator on two Centres of Research Excellence, one in End-of-Life Care and the other on Chronic Kidney Disease.

Ben is also currently developing funded training and research programs about end-of-life law. These programs include the legislatively-mandated training that health professionals must complete before being involved in voluntary assisted dying in Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland (funded by these State Governments). Another is a national program funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health to enhance health professionals’ knowledge of law at the end of life called End of Life Law for Clinicians. He also contributes to the Commonwealth Government-funded End of Life Directions for Aged Care project.

Ben’s research has had significant impact leading to changes in law, policy and practice. His work has been adopted by parliaments, courts and tribunals, and law reform commissions and has also influenced state and national end-of-life policy and prompted changes to clinical education in universities, hospitals and health departments. His research has also contributed to voluntary assisted dying law reform across Australia, and particularly in Queensland. His legal research is publicly available through the End of Life Law in Australia website (co-authored with Lindy Willmott and Penny Neller). This site aims to provide accessible information about law at the end of life for patients, families, health and legal practitioners, the media, policymakers and the broader community.

A list of Ben’s publications and other outputs is available here: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/White,_Ben.html.

Dinukshi graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Medical Science in 2001 followed by a Bachelor of Dentistry in 2005 and in recent years has been working as a director and principal dentist. Dinukshi has a well- rounded skill set in most areas of dentistry and treatment planning and has a particular interest in the correlation of sleep disorders to dentistry.

Dinukshi will be responsible for managing and developing the association’s new certification for dental sleep medicine professionals, the Fellow of Dental Sleep Medicine program.