Dr Hilton Koppe is a writer, educator, podcaster and doctor living on Bundjalung Land on the east coast of Australia. He is a long-standing member of Dementia Training Australia’s GP education team. He facilitates reflective writing workshops for doctors and other health professionals with the goal of deepening their compassion, overcoming professional isolation and reducing risk of burnout. The workshops have been adapted for people living with chronic and mental illnesses, as well as enthusiastic amateur writers. He has been invited to present his workshops all the way from Byron Writers Festival to Harvard Medical School. His book, One Curious Doctor: A Memoir of Medicine, Migration and Mortality, explores the personal impact of working as a country doctor. His play, Enduring Witness, is used to facilitate conversations about end-of-life care. Hilton is co-host of Dementia In Practice, a top 100 Great Australian Podcast.

After initially becoming a fully qualified Neurologist, Dr Lowe went on to train to become an Ophthalmic Surgeon. He is the only practitioner in Australia to hold these dual specialties. Dr Lowe has particular interest in ophthalmic surgery, medical retina, neurologically related eye disease and general ophthalmology. He completed his specialist training through Sydney Eye Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital in the UK. He currently holds teaching positions at Sydney University and UNSW affiliated hospitals and VMO positions at Royal Prince Alfred , St Vincent’s and Sydney Eye Hospitals. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists for both Australia and New Zealand. Dr Lowe enjoys participating in charitable/pro-bono surgical training and teaching here and overseas.

Dr Kenneth Ho is a Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist with clinical and research interests in Diabetes, Obesity and General Endocrinology. He trained at St George, and Bankstown hospitals and researched at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. He previously received a full-time National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) scholarship and other diabetes grants for his PhD studies on the role of iron chelation for the treatment of glucose, lipids and obesity. He received the Novartis Young Scientist award from the Endocrine Society of Australia in 2009. His research was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation in 2010. Dr Ho currently holds Visiting Medical Officer and Staff Specialist appointments at Ryde, Macquarie University, Campbelltown and Camden teaching hospitals in Sydney and provides medical governance for the high risk foot service at Camden hospital. Dr Ho is a Clinical Associate Professor with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University and Conjoint Associate Professor with Western Sydney University, teaching from undergraduate through to post-graduate medical, and Physician training. Dr Ho has supervised research scholars for Doctor of Advanced Medicine program through Macquarie University and is the Director of Physician Education and the Chairman of the General Clinical Training Council at Ryde Hospital. Dr Ho has published in the areas of diabetes, vitamin D, and general endocrinology; presented lectures to GPs, optometrists, pharmacists and the general public on diabetes, thyroid disorders, pituitary disorders and osteoporosis; and previously received letters of appreciation and commendation from the Northern Sydney Local Health District and the Lions Club of Sydney Chinese Society for his public lectures. Dr Ho is fluent in Mandarin and in Cantonese.

I’m a postdoctoral research associate working in the Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience at The University of Manchester. I research hearing loss in people with dementia living in care homes and in the community. Currently, I am investigating how common hearing loss is in people with dementia and how accessible hearing assessments and audiology services are for people with dementia. Prior to this, I completed my PhD on hearing loss within care homes and how to improve hearing care provided to residents with dementia. I worked with Rebecca Millman, Piers Dawes, Christopher Armitage and Iracema Leroi on this project.
I have a degree in Psychology and previously worked in care homes as a care assistant.

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.