Dr Diem Pham is a General Practitioner who balances clinical work with her role as a Senior Medical Officer role at a Federal Government Department. She has further training in Public Health, Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine. She is particularly passionate about medical education and helping to improve health literacy in the general community.

Stuart is a British born and trained medical doctor and general practitioner who emigrated with his family to Australia in 2016. He now works as a GP in Queensland and as a Clinical Editor for Health Pathways. Prior to reading medicine in his early 30’s, Stuart originally trained as a nurse, subsequently working in a range of clinical, operational and strategic management roles across a wide range of health sectors.
Stuart is passionate about family general practice due to the breadth of medicine it allows him to practice, as well as the long-term relationship and continuity of care it enables him to offer patients. He enjoys being a medical generalist but has special interests in male health, chronic disease management, occupational medicine and is increasingly exploring an interest in medical writing.
Stuart is married to Lizzie, who is also a GP and enjoys spending time with his young family, travelling, being in the water and the great outdoors.

Rosemary has been a Clinical Psychologist in Sydney for over 20 years treating sleep, mood, anxiety and substance use disorders.

She completed a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology at Adelaide University, then worked as a Clinical Psychologist with SWSAHS, and since 2008 has been Snr Clinical Psychologist at The Sydney Clinic, Bronte. From 2014 she has been the specialist sleep psychologist at Sydney Sleep Centre, and the Director of LetSleepHappen.

Rosemary holds the following Professional accreditation and memberships: Psychologist Registration with AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency), Medicare Registered Provider of Clinical Psychology Services (Better Access scheme), Workcover registered provider, AHPRA and APS – approved clinical supervisor, Full member of the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society, Full member of the Australasian Sleep Association and Member of AACBT (Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy).

Prof Hayden Homer is Brisbane’s leading fertility specialist and one of Australia’s most highly accredited Reproductive Endocrinologist and Gynaecologists. He is the only fertility doctor in Queensland to hold the most advanced accreditation in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (CREI) from both Australia and the UK.
Prof Homer draws on his extensive knowledge to design highly individualised and personalised treatments for every one of his patients geared towards maximising success.
Prof Homer is an internationally renowned researcher. He holds Australia’s highly prestigious fully-endowed Chair in Reproductive Medicine at The University of Queensland and set up and directs Queensland’s first and only research laboratory dedicated to studying eggs.

Caring and engaging, highly regarded CREI qualified fertility specialist Manuela Toledo approaches all fertility patients with a holistic view applying her extensive experience in fertility and the genetics of reproductive medicine.

Manuela is interested in all aspects of infertility with a special interest in fertility preservation and complementary medicine in fertility care. She is particularly interested in complex IVF and providing second opinions.

After graduating from The University of Melbourne and completing residency at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Manuela specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2004.

Manuela is the only female CREI (Certificate in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility) qualified fertility specialist in Tasmania.
Manuela has enjoyed consulting at both Melbourne IVF and TasIVF, and has strong family ties in Hobart. Manuela also holds a long standing VMO position at The Women’s Hospital in Melbourne and is responsible for training future fertility specialists.

Prof Brendon Yee is a Staff Specialist in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Medical Director of Respiratory Failure Services at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He is also a consultant for Rural Outreach Services in Sleep and Respiratory Medicine in Central Western NSW, previous Chair of the Professional Standards Committee of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and a member of the Clinical Committee of the Australasian Sleep Association. Prof Yee is a graduate of the University of Otago, New Zealand and completed his sleep fellowship in Wellington, New Zealand and then Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. He has a PhD from his research on the metabolic effects of sleep apnea and the effect of weight loss, and is a previous Young Investigator Award Winner of the Australasian Sleep Association.

‘Professor Brendan Crabb AC PhD FAA FAHMS FASM is an infectious disease researcher with a special interest in malaria. His research group develops and exploits genetic approaches to better understand malaria parasite biology, principally to help prioritise vaccine and drug targets. Although a molecular scientist by training, Professor Crabb’s interests include addressing technical and non-technical barriers to maternal, newborn and child health in the developing world. In recent years, under the banner of Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, he helped establish a major research field site in East New Britain in Papua New Guinea, principally to identify the underlying drivers (including malaria) of low birth weight and stunting in relatively calorie-rich, yet resource-poor settings. Since 2008 he has been the Director and CEO of the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health (Burnet Institute), a research institute that has a focus on infectious diseases and women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health, especially for populations most in need. Burnet has played a major role in the COVID-19 pandemic, including advising governments and advocating strongly for public health action. Professor Crabb is President of both the Australian Global Health Alliance and the Pacific Friends of Global Health, bodies that advocate for better health equity. He is the past-President of the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (AAMRI), the peak body for independent medical research Institutes in Australia. Professor Crabb has played critical roles in transformative government policy and funding initiatives, including in the generation of the $20b Medical Research Future Fund. He is currently a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS) and of the Australian Society for Microbiology (FASM). He served on the governing Council of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia from 2016 – 2021. Internationally, he currently serves on the International Advisory Boards of the Sanger Institute (UK) and on the WHO Malaria Vaccine Advisory Committee (MALVAC) in Geneva. Professor Crabb was the Co-Founder of the 1st Malaria World Congress and of the Molecular Approaches to Malaria Conferences. Prior to 2008, Professor Crabb was a Senior Principal Research Fellow in the NHMRC and an International Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the US. He is an experienced educator having been a full-time teaching and research academic at the University of Melbourne (1996-2000) and has been immersed in education at secondary and tertiary levels ever since. In 2015, he was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia’s highest civilian honour, in 2019 he received the GSK Award for Research Excellence and in 2020 he was awarded the Global Citizen Prize: Australia’s Hero Award. Qualifications • 1992: PhD, (Virology) School of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne,Victoria, Australia • 1988: BSc, (Hons) Department of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Australia • 1987: BSc, University of Melbourne, Australia • 2016: Advanced Management Program (4 weeks), Columbia University, USA

Sydney IVF specialist Dr Raewyn Teirney is one of the world’s leading Fertility Specialists and Gynaecologists. She has helped over 5,000 couples conceive.

She is deeply passionate about helping couples start or add to their loving family and her empathetic nature helps to make the fertility journey less overwhelming for her patients.

Dr Raewyn specialises in many male and female fertility issues, including those affecting women living with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis and fibroids. As a leading specialist in PCOS, Dr Raewyn has been published extensively on the condition, and has lectured and trained many sub-specialists on PCOS.

Dr Raewyn currently works as a Visiting Medical Officer (VMO) fertility sub-specialist at The Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick NSW, and in private practice with IVF Australia in both Alexandria and Bondi Junction in Sydney.

She is a member of the Fertility Society of Australia (FSA), and the European Society for Human Reproduction and Endocrinology (ESHRE) and is a Training Supervisor at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG), helping to educate and equip the next generation of fertility specialists.