Dr Deirdre McGhee is a researcher for Breast Research Australia (BRA), a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Wollongong and an APA Sports Physiotherapist. She has extensive experience as a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of breast support. This includes treatment of the musculoskeletal symptoms experienced by women with large breasts and breast support during exercise for female athletes and active women. Her PhD in breast biomechanics was in relation to both sports bra design and bra fit, which included a sports bra patent designed specifically for women with large breasts. She has written several evidence-based educational resources for women on breast support and bra fit during physical activity, including guidelines for Sports Medicine Australia, Exercise and breast support which was the first sporting body in the world to introduce such guidelines and the App, Sports bra (available on iTunes & www.bra.edu.au), which is the only app in the world that contains evidence-based information to assist women choose a well-fitted, supportive sports bra that suits their exercise needs. Contact details: dmcghee@uow.edu.au.

I have over 20 years of clinical experience as a physiotherapist and hold the following qualifications: Doctor of philosophy (behavioural science), Master of Clinical Science (evidence-based practice), Post-Graduate Certificate in Sports Physiotherapy and Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physiotherapy.

My research is focused on mitigating sports related head and neck injuries particularly in football (soccer).

I am a Lecturer and Course Coordinator in the undergraduate physiotherapy program at ACU, North Sydney.

I am also a Titled Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist with extensive experience treating elite athletes. I have worked and travelled internationally with multiple sports.

I am currently completing a PhD in Medicine and Public Health at The University of Newcastle, Australia. My PhD focus is evaluating the identification of concussion in Women’s National Rugby League. I have a research interest in injury risk reduction, particularly in female contact and collision sports.

Professor Saini trained as a pharmacist at the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chandigarh, India (1990). She continued on to a path in research, starting with a Masters in the Discipline of Pharmaceutics (1992) at the same institute. Her master’s work involved exploring the mutagenicty of halogenated nitrobenzenes. After completing a masters degree in Business Administration (1996, University of Western Sydney), she changed her research direction to exploring pharmacy health services, an area which strategically combines her pharmacy background and an understanding of management principles. Her PhD project focused on asthma (2004, University of Sydney), and since then Professor Saini has led and collaborated in implementing and evaluating several successful pharmacy-based models that involve screening (sleep disorders and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), patient self-management (allergic rhinitis, sleep disorders, asthma) and clinical audits (sleep medications), as well as pharmacovigilance (sleep medications).

I am a practising clinician with an interest in chronic pain doing genetic and omic epidemiology studies to try and understand the pathways involved in multiple chronic pain syndromes, including lower back pain.

Previously I was a Wellcome Trust Fellow with Twin Research, and I also practise musculoskeletal medicine, providing clinics in general rheumatology and metabolic bone disease. I am also interested in occupational conditions, and hold a monthly unique NHS clinic for musicians and performing artists with musculoskeletal complaints.

Dr Jo Braid is a Rehabilitation Medicine Specialist based in Orange, NSW, Australia. Originally from Cambridge in the UK, she completed her medical training there before moving to Australia to complete her specialisation in Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr Braid is passionate about helping women and men in medicine overcome burnout and achieve greater joy and fulfillment in both their personal and professional lives. She offers coaching services to support clinicians in this journey, alongside her work in clinical medicine, where she focuses on the rehabilitation of people with traumatic brain injuries.

Dr Widera is a Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Reading. His areas of expertise are adult stem cells, expansion of stem cells for their clinical use, and the role of inflammation in health and disease.

He has published over 60 research manuscripts and has presented his research as invited talks at numerous international conferences in the UK, Germany, USA, Italy, Finland, San Marino, Russia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, and China.

Dr. Sanil Rege is a Consultant Psychiatrist with dual psychiatry qualifications from the United Kingdom and Australia. He is founder of Psych Scene and Vita Healthcare. He has lived and worked on five continents and currently lives on the Mornington Peninsula.

His focus on combining psychiatry with principles of entrepreneurship has uniquely enabled him to not only contribute to the academic world through his several publications but also add value to the real world by establishing two successful enterprises in a short span of 6 years. He was appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry at a prestigious Australian University at the age of 32 but left the role to focus on his passion of entrepreneurship in psychiatry. Psych Scene was co-founded to enhance psychiatry education, and Vita Healthcare was to provide the highest quality mental health care to the public.

He is passionate about learning from multiple disciplines (Medicine, Psychiatry, Neurosciences, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Finance and Psychology) with the aim of adding value to the world. By taking on multiple roles of a clinician, entrepreneur, father, educator, investor and MBA student, he recognises that personal development is a journey that needs to touch others’ lives for the better. He lives by the motto “All the knowledge in the world is not found in one academic discipline” and driven by curiosity.

Dr. Sanil Rege is as Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK). He hast practiced Psychiatry in the United Kingdom and throughout Australia and has experience in the assessment and management of a broad range of psychiatric disorders, including psychosis, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorders, personality disorders, neuropsychiatric presentations and consultation-liaison psychiatry.

Dr Grace Phua is a GP on the Syphilis Response Team at Metropolitan Communicable Disease Control. She aims to bring a primary care voice to the public health teams in which she works, and to bring messages about the syphilis outbreak and other topical public health issues to primary care settings.

I am interested in the diagnosis and management of insomnia, sleep apnoea, and co-morbid insomnia and sleep apnoea.

I am currently managing a primary care sleep disorder education and implementation program at the Australasian Sleep Association.

Tania is as registered psychologist and completed her PhD in 2012 in the area of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

She attained a Bachelor of Psychology (B Psych. Hons.) 2003 from the University of New England, Armidale, NSW and a Post graduate Diploma in Social Health (PGDipSocHlth) in 2005 from Macquarie University, Sydney NSW.

She worked previously with the Black Dog Institute and the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales. She has been involved in several research trials examining the effectiveness of psychological therapies in the treatment of bipolar disorder and depression. She has also participated in longitudinal studies of young people ‘at risk’ of developing bipolar disorder and in the area of adolescent mental health. As part of her post-doctoral research fellowship she explored the impact of menopause on women living with bipolar disorder.