Dr Sara Holton is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research – Western Health Partnership in the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Institute of Health Transformation at Deakin University. Sara is mid‐career researcher and social scientist who conducts psychosocial research in three main, often intersecting, areas: women’s health, chronic disease, and health services research. Sara is currently leading several COVID-19 related research projects including one of the first Australian studies to investigate the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on hospital clinical staff. Sara’s research findings have informed health policy, practice and research.

Caroline is an Associate Professor and a Clinical Neuropsychologist within the Department of Psychiatry at Monash University. She is the Head of the Cognition and Hormones research group and works clinically as a neuropschologist in the field of Women’s Mental Health. Caroline’s research explores the interplay between sex hormones, and lifestyle factors, such as trauma and stress, on cognition in mental illness.

I’m a coastal geomorphologist with over 35 years experience studying and monitoring coastal processes on beaches. More recently my work has focused on beach safety research, particularly the rip current hazard, from both physical and social science perspectives. I also run a successful and award winning community beach safety education program called ‘The Science of the Surf (SOS)’ that aims to educate people about beach hazards and safety. I am extremely passionate and committed to reducing the number of fatalities and accidents that occur on beaches, most of which are largely due to lack of education and awareness. You can follow me on Facebook (Dr Rip’s Science of the Surf), Twitter (@Dr_Rip_SOS) and at www.scienceofthesurf.com

Specialties: Beach and coastal hazards, beach safety education, coastal processes and shoreline response, community engagement, science communication and outreach, scientific and environmental writing, education and training, media communication and engagement, public speaking.

Dr Amy Peden is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Research Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney.

Amy is an injury prevention researcher and leads a program of research that focuses on drowning prevention globally. Her work ranges from epidemiology and risk factor identification to science communication, advocacy, and the translation of evidence into policy and practice. Specifically her work focuses on highlighting the full burden of drowning, including improvements to global estimates and increasing awareness of the health system, economic and social impacts of non-fatal drowning. Her work also focuses on the intersecting risk factors of rurality and alcohol consumption. She regularly appears on television, radio and in print to discuss drowning prevention.

Amy is an honorary Senior Research Fellow with Royal Life Saving Society – Australia and a co-founder of the UNSW Beach Safety Research Group. She is also actively involved in broader injury prevention research, including a focus on adolescents through the Australian Centre for Research Excellence in “Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health”.

A/Prof John Brannan is the Scientific Director in the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, where his key focus is running the pulmonary function and cardiopulmonary exercise laboratories. He also performs research in respiratory diseases with a focus in asthma, which includes an interest in bronchial provocation testing as an aid to identify both active asthma, exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, and chronic cough. He has a strong interest in investigating mechanisms of drug treatments in airway diseases.

Giovanni Sala is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Liverpool (UK), where he was awarded a PhD in 2017. His work focuses on building statistical models of human cognition in experimental and educational settings. His interests include the study of cognitive and biological correlates of successful ageing, the relationship between intelligence and expert performance, and the evaluation of cognitive/brain training programmes.

Melissa Kang Clinical Associate Professor in the Specialty of General Practice at the University of Sydney. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Technology Sydney. She is a primary health care academic and has worked clinically in youth health since 1993 in community and hospital settings. Her research areas include adolescent sexuality and sexual health, and access to primary health care for young people. She teaches postgraduate students and has trained a wide range of health and education professionals in adolescent health. She has been involved in developing resources in adolescent and / or sexual health for GPs for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, NSW Health (Youth Health and Wellbeing Team) and the Sexually Transmitted Infections Programs Unit for NSW Health. Melissa wrote the Dolly Doctor medical column for Dolly magazine for 23 years before it closed in December 2016.

Senior Research Fellow with 17 years experience in general practice research. PhD (Medicine) investigated the effect of computerisation on the quality of care in Australian general practice. Background in Health Information Management (BAppSc (HIM) Hons 1). Deputy Director of the Family Medicine Research Centre, investigator of the national BEACH program from 1999 to 2016. Editor of HIMJ, the international peer-reviewed journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia.

Christopher Harrison joined the University of Sydney’s Family Medicine Research Centre (FMRC) in March 2002. He has been a primary care researcher for two decades now. He completed his PhD in 2017 which investigated the best way to define and measure multimorbidity. Dr Harrison’s study interests are macro health and policy issues, including workforce, effect of vaccinations, the prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity and GP access and billing.

Dr Jo-Ann See has worked at Central Sydney Dermatology since 1993 and has been a principal here for over 25 years. After obtaining her medical degree with honours from the University of New South Wales in 1985, she completed her residency at the Prince of Wales Hospital and then her Dermatology training at both Prince of Wales and St Vincent’s Hospitals in Sydney. Her post Fellowship training in Psoriasis was completed at Baylor Medical School, Dallas Texas. As a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology she regularly attends national and international annual scientific meetings to stay up to date.

Dr See has served on the State and Federal boards of the Australasian College of Dermatologists as well as having been a guest examiner for the Fellowship examinations. She has been involved in clinical trials, product launches and has introduced innovative treatments to Australia. Her key interests are skin care, sun damage, skin cancer and acne. She is a pioneer in the field treatment of actinic keratosis (pre-cancers) with daylight photodynamic therapy. Dr See is at the forefront of acne treatment in Australia. She is invited as the sole Australian representative to the International Global Alliance to improve Outcomes in Acne. She, together with liked-minded colleagues, spearheaded the formation of a non-profit health initiative, All About Acne, and has been its long standing chair/co-chair since its foundation.

Dr See attends and is an invited speaker both nationally and internationally. She has made regular appearances in press, radio and television discussing, clarifying and de-mystifying dermatology issues. She has also consulted with the College of Dermatology as well as industry in providing patient information for the general public and teaching material for general practice.

Prof David Price is founder and head of Optimum Patient Care (UK and Australia), a science-based, social enterprise which focuses on disease registries and supporting care in primary and secondary care led by internationally recognised experts in all areas of respiratory medicine. He is also the founder of The Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute (Singapore), an independent, research-driven organisation established to cultivate initiatives, provide evidence and drive quality standards within the growing field of real-life, pragmatic and observational research. This dynamic organisation delivers pragmatic clinical trials and real-life database research across multiple geographies, including territories in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, such as Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, The Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and China.

Associate Professor Jurgen Passage is the Head of Department for the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at St John of God Subiaco Hospital and also held this position at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital from 2013 to 2015. He completed his undergraduate medical degree in Leipzig, Germany in 1998. Prof Passage migrated to Australia in the same year and completed the Australian Medical Council Certificate in 2000. He undertook post-graduate training in General and Cardiothoracic Surgery in Brisbane and Sydney and completed his FRACS (Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons) in 2008. Dr Passage spent 14 months at the University of Leipzig Heart Centre as a Mitral Valve Fellow in 2008 and 2009. He gained extensive training and experience in minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. In October 2009, he started Western Australia’s first minimally invasive mitral valve surgery program. In 2010 he founded the AMIMS Workshop (Australian Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery), which trains surgeons in this technique. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle) and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. Dr Passage has sub-specialty interests in: * Adult Cardiac Surgery * Minimally invasive mitral valve repair and replacement surgery * Minimally invasive tricuspid valve surgery * Surgery for aortic valve disease * Minimally invasive atrial septal defect closure * Coronary artery bypass surgery * Surgical treatment of Atrial fibrillation * Surgical treatment of aortic diseases such as aneurysms * Surgery for cardiac tumours * Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) * Transcatheter mitral valve interventions (MitraClip and others).