Joanna Baker is a dietitian who loves food and is passionate about digestive health. In 2015 she stepped out of the hospital environment to establish Everyday Nutrition, a specialist Private Practice in Melbourne. She now works with a team of expert dietitians who love to support people with digestive complaints to implement simple yet effective strategies that resolve gut symptoms without losing their enjoyment of food. Joanna has worked in healthcare for over 25 years. She is a committee member of the Adverse Food Reactions Interest Group with Dietitians Australia and on the Advisory Board for the Master of Dietetics at Deakin University.

Dr Brent Richards is Professor or Critical Care Research and Medical Director of Research Commercialisation at GCHHS, with interests in ICU infections, ventilation, and re-using data.
He was previously director of ICU, and executive director of surgery at GCUH; and a founding member of the National Intensive Care Clinical Trials Group.
For the last 2 years he has worked on ICU preparedness for QLD, including help guide purchasing decisions and sitting on many state and national Covid-19 committees. His current interests also include Artificial Intelligence, and he chairs the Advisory Board of the QLD AI Hub.

Warren Ward is Director of the Queensland Eating Disorders Service (QuEDS) and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland. He is Chair of the Queensland Health Eating Disorder Advisory Group and co-author of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Eating Disorders. In 2017 he received the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders (ANZAED) Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Eating Disorders. He has published more than forty articles and book chapters, most of them on eating disorders. He was recently appointed Medical Director of Wandi Nerida, Australia’s first residential program for eating disorders.

Dr Desmond Graham is a Geriatrician who graduated from the University of Newcastle and completed specialty training at Westmead and North Shore Hospitals. He is actively involved with the Australia and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine and holds an academic appointment as a Clinical Lecturer with the University of Sydney. Dr Graham has a special interest in healthy ageing and peri-operative medicine. He provides holistic, patient-centred care for all patients with major geriatric syndromes including dementia, delirium, frailty, falls and end of life care. He participates in a monthly Healthy Ageing segment with Deborah Knight on 2GB radio and holds regular forums for the Northern Beaches community.

Dr Sarah Catford, endocrinologist and andrologist with a special interest in male infertility. Sarah is an expert advisor for Healthy Male. Sarah recently completed her PhD on the genetic basis and broader health implications of male infertility. A major part of her PhD was an NHMRC-funded study investigating the implications of male infertility on offspring health and fertility by clinically evaluating a cohort of ICSI-conceived young men of infertile fathers.

Prof. Sam Berkovic is Laureate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, and Director of the Epilepsy Research Centre at Austin Health.

His early work was in neuroimaging where he was a pioneer in the application of MRI and single photon emission computed tomography in epilepsy, and especially epilepsy surgery. This work was rapidly applied to routine clinical use and remains so today. In the late 1980s he realised the potential for clinical genetic research in epilepsy, utilising the NHMRC twin registry and working with large pedigrees. This led, together with molecular genetic collaborators in Adelaide and Germany, to the discovery of the first gene for epilepsy in 1995.

Subsequently he and his group have been involved in the discovery of many of the known epilepsy genes. This has changed the conceptualisation of the causes of epilepsy, is having a major impact on directions of epilepsy research and has directly translated to impacting daily clinical diagnosis and counselling, as well as refining treatment.

He heads a large group integrating genetic, imaging and physiological studies in epilepsy. His current passions are completing the understanding of the complex genetic architecture of epilepsies and developing precision therapies for severe genetic epilepsies.

He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2005, Fellow of the Royal Society (London) in 2007, Companion of the Order of Australia in 2014 and a member of the National Academy of Medicine (USA) in 2017. Together with Ingrid Scheffer, he was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science in 2014.

Vicki’s key area of expertise is paediatric food allergy. She is the dietitian for the Department of Allergy and Immunology at the Royal Children’s Hospital where her role involves patient care, teaching, training, resource development and research.
Vicki’s expertise in food allergy sees her involved in food allergy training of dietitians, nurses and doctors and she is a frequently invited to participate in conferences, training sessions, and resource development in the area of food allergy.
She is the current Victorian convenor of the Dietitian food allergy interest group and is a past chair of the dietitian subcommittee of ASCIA. She has also contributed a chapter to a textbook on food allergy and has been in involved in food allergy research. She is currently completing her PhD in food allergy with the Centre for Food and Allergy Research based at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne.
Vicki has extensive experience in all areas of paediatric food allergy including not only how to safely avoid the foods that your child is allergic too but how to ensure your child receives the optimal nutrition they need from the foods they can eat. She focuses not only on the nutritional side of eating but the developmental issues as well. Many of the children she sees have limited diets and or difficult eating behaviours. Vicki has a very practical approach with lots of meal and snack ideas as well as how to source specialised food products and interpret food labels correctly for food allergies.
Being a dietitian Vicki, not surprisingly, has a passion for food and loves to cook or eat out with friends and family. She tries to balance a love of food, wine and chocolate with running and group training sessions!

Dr Yasmin Tan is a gynaecologist and women’s ultrasound specialist based in the Sydney CBD. Her training and experience lie in the areas of general gynaecology, gynaecological surgery (including laparoscopy), paediatric & adolescent gynaecology, abnormal pap smears and obstetric and gynaecologic ultrasound.