Dr. Nicole Winter is an upper gastrointestinal, bariatric and general surgeon. Nicole completed her medical degree at the University of Melbourne in 2007. She was awarded her fellowship in general surgery by RACS in 2016. Nicole subsequently completed subspecialty training in upper gastrointestinal surgery through ANZGOSA. This was undertaken at Box Hill Hospital in Melbourne and Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. Nicole completed a further bariatric fellowship at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and at St Vincent’s Hospital Northside with renowned bariatric surgeon, Dr George Hopkins.

Nicole has a special interest in a patient-centred approach to the treatment of oesophageal and gastric cancer, hiatus hernia repair, anti-reflux surgery, and bariatric surgery. Nicole is also passionate about the education and training of junior doctors and improving the surgical training experience. Nicole currently sits on the ANZGOSA board.

Michael Orsini is Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa

I am a critical disability studies scholar who draws on feminist new materialism to examine disabled and mad students’ experiences in higher education. My scholarly contributions lie at the theoretical and pedagogical intersections of disability, mad, and fat studies and include socio-historical examinations that surface the interconnections of colonialism, racism, ableism, sanism, and queer- and transphobia. I have published scholarly articles on disability-related issues in higher education, on Canadian disability history, and on community-based learning. I am an assistant professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University. I conduct this research diversely-positioned as a disabled, fat, POC, immigrant and settler who is living, working and creating on the ancestral and traditional territories of the Algonquin nation.

Dr Thorlene Edgerton is a Senior Lecturer and Post Grad Program Coordinator for the Physiotherapy Department at the University of Melbourne. She teaches a subject where coursework masters students studying Sports Medicine, Clinical Rehabilitation, or Pelvic Health Physiotherapy learn to conduct a high quality systematic review and prepare a draft manuscript.

Hannah Dahlen is the Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR and Midwifery Discipline Leader in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney. She has been a midwife for 30 years and still practices. She is one of the first midwives in Australia to gain Eligibility and access to a Medicare provider number following government reforms in 2010.

Hannah has strong national and international research partnerships, has received 15 grants since 2000, including being CI on two NHMRC grants in 2011 and has had over 200 publications. She has spoken at over 100 national and international conference in the past five years and given invited keynote addresses at half of these.

Hannah has been interviewed in print, radio and TV hundreds of times and featured in four documentaries. Hannah is a past President of the Australian College of Midwives and received Life Membership in 2008 for outstanding contributions to the profession of Midwifery.

In 2019 Hannah was awarded a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division) in the Queen’s birthday honours list for her significant services to midwifery, nursing and medical education and research. In November 2012 she was named in the Sydney Morning Herald’s list of 100 people who change our city for the better A panelist on the selection panel for the special feature in the (Sydney) magazine described Hannah as probably the leading force promoting natural birth and midwife-led care in Australia. Hannah was named as one of the leading science and knowledge thinkers for 2012.

Dr Dani Susic is a Clinical Academic in obstetrics at Liverpool Hospital. She is also a Senior Lecturer with an education focus at UNSW Sydney teaching and developing the Women’s Health Curriculum across both the undergraduate and post graduate programs. Dani has undertaken speciality training through the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) and ran the Microbiome Understanding in Maternity Study (MUMS) trying to establish if there are causal links or associations between the action and composition of microbiome during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes as the subject of her PhD. She practices with the principles of shared decision making and trauma informed care for all the women she cares for, and instills this in the students and junior doctors that she mentors.

Dr. Hazel Keedle is a Senior Lecturer of Midwifery at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University. She has over two decades of experience as a clinician in nursing and midwifery, educator, and researcher. Her research interests are vaginal birth after caesarean, birth trauma, and maternity experiences, which she explores primarily using feminist mixed methodologies.
Dr. Keedle’s work is recognised nationally and internationally. She has made many invited conference and seminar presentations, and her research has been widely published in academic journals and books. She is the author of the book “Birth after Caesarean: Your Journey to a Better Birth,” which is based on her PhD findings. Dr. Keedle is also the lead researcher on the largest maternity experiences survey, The Birth Experience Study.
Dr Keedle is passionate about improving the experiences of women during childbirth. She is committed to using her research to advocate for women’s rights and to ensure that all women have access to respectful, supportive maternity care.

Dr Hohenberg is an academic geriatrician working at the Salus Clinic and Brellah organisations. He was trained at the Royal Free and University College London Medical Schools (University of London) and moved to Australia in 2008. Completing training in Sydney, he became a geriatric specialist in 2016. He has a strong interest in medical education including development of professional skills at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as curriculum development. He has completed a Master’s degree in medical education through research with a qualitative project on the subject of what interns want to learn and how, during their first year of practice. Dr Hohenberg’s vision is to develop a strong academic geriatric multi-disciplinary specialty that is built upon excellence in research and education that translates to effective integrated clinical outcomes for patients, carers and staff within our healthcare and tertiary education systems.

Dr. Simon Sherry directs Dalhousie University’s Personality Research Team. Dr. Sherry and his team are responsible for making critical advancements in our understanding of the link between personality and mental health; in particular, they have clarified the contribution of perfectionism to depression, anxiety, eating disorders, relationship problems, and suicide. Dr. Sherry also researches alcohol problems. He has published 160 scientific articles and earned more than $2.5 million in grant funds.

Wanting to directly help more people, in 2018, Dr. Sherry and his wife founded CRUX Psychology, a team of 16 Ph.D.-level psychologists. CRUX provides high-quality, evidence-based individual therapy, couples therapy, and assessment. Therapy and assessment are available online and in person. CRUX serves Atlantic Canada and Alberta.

In his clinical practice, Dr. Simon Sherry treats and assesses various problems in both individuals and couples. Dr. Sherry is also a strong advocate for the science and practice of psychology. He regularly works with the media as part of his goal to educate the public about mental health problems in a scientific, non-sensationalized way.

Associate Professor Raewyn Campbell currently works as a dedicated Rhinologist and Skull Base surgeon in Australia. Raewyn completed 3 international fellowships in Rhinology and Skull Base surgery in Auckland, New Zealand and Philadelphia and Columbus, USA. Raewyn has published multiple journal articles and book chapters and has presented at specialist conferences worldwide. She is actively involved in teaching medical students and otorhinolaryngology/ENT trainees and teaches at rhinology and skull base courses locally and internationally. Raewyn has also trained surgeons internationally and is actively involved in ongoing rhinology and skull base research. She is on the editorial boards for the Australian Journal of Otolaryngology and Rhinology (Frontiers in Allergy special edition) and is a reviewer for multiple academic journals. She is currently undertaking a PhD at The University of Sydney. Raewyn has an active interest in both paediatric and adult otorhinolaryngology. Raewyn is married with two young children. Raewyn’s memberships include: Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Australasian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Australia and New Zealand Rhinologic Society, Fellow of American Rhinologic Society, American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, North American Skull Base Society International Committee Member, Australian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy ENT Associate Member Representative. Associate Professor Raewyn Campbell operates at the following hospitals: Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Macquarie University Hospital, North Shore Private Hospital, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Chatswood Private Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital, St Vincent’s Private Hospital, and Chris O’Brien Lifehouse.

Professor Paul Fitzgerald is the Head of the School of Medicine and Psychology at the Australian National University. He is an academic psychiatrist with a MBBS degree, Masters of Psychological Medicine and research PhD from Monash University. He has conducted an extensive range of experimental studies and clinical trials, focused on the development of novel treatments options for patients with depression, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, PTSD, autism and Alzheimer’s disease with a special interest in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). He has had continual NHMRC grant support for 20 years and over $10 million in research support in the last 5 years. He has published several books, over 500 journal articles and been cited over 25,000 times. He has established multiple clinical rTMS services, founded several device and clinical service companies and led a national application to MSAC in the Federal Department of Health which resulted, in 2021, in Medicare funding ($280 million in year 1) for rTMS therapy for patients with depression.

Dr Pinzon Charry is a Paediatric Clinical Immunologist and Allergist based at the Queensland Children’s Hospital and in private practice. He combines clinical work, research, as well as trainee education. He is a regular examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and holds academic appointments with Griffith University and the University of Queensland. Dr Pinzon Charry is the Queensland representative for the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) and serves in the Clinical Immunology Committee for the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS).