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

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.

Dr Vakulin is a Research Fellow at the Adelaide Institute of Sleep Health, Flinders University and an affiliate researcher at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and University of Sydney. His broad research interests and expertise are investigating the impact of sleep disorders and sleep loss on day time function and vigilance impairment, particulary in realtion to operational perfomrance such as fatigue realted motor vehicle and workplace accident risk. His current research focus is the exploration of novel neurophysiological, neurobehavioral and biological measures or “biomarkers” that may be useful in clinically identifying individual patients who may be more vunerable to sleepiness-related impairments and accident risk. Dr Vakulin’s further research interests include investigating the efficacy of sleep apnoea treatment in improving day time function and examining the prevelance and co-morbib health outcomes and costs of obstructive sleep apnoea in Australia.

Dr Karam Kostner is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland and Director of Cardiology at Mater Hospital Brisbane. Dr Kostner’s clinical interest is preventative cardiology and lipid disorders. He has also been actively involved in cardiovascular research for fifteen years, mainly in the area of lipoproteins, lipid lowering and atherosclerosis. Having published approximately 90 peer reviewed papers, four book chapters and several review articles and editorials, Dr Kostner has also given numerous invited lectures at cardiovascular meetings and is secretary of the Cardiac Society of Australia and NZ, Queensland branch. Dr Kostner is an editorial board member and section editor of the European Journal Clinical Investigation and a regular reviewer for many journals, as well as being a NHMRC Grant Reviewer. Dr Koster has also organised or been on the committee of several national and international conferences.