Professor Alta Schutte is a hypertension and heart disease specialist, who is Principal Theme Lead of Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine in the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia with a joint appointment as Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. She was the Director of Hypertension in Africa Research Team and Director of the Medical Research Council Extramural Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease at the North-West University in South Africa. She has fulfilled several leadership roles, including the President of the Southern African Hypertension Society, and President of the International Society of Hypertension.

Celia Zubrinich is a Consultant Physician with special interest in all aspects of allergy, with particular expertise in food, drug and venom allergies, and she continues active involvement in clinical research at the Alfred Hospital.

She see adults and adolescents 16 years or older in the practice.

Dr Celia Zubrinich obtained her medical degree from Monash University with First Class Honours, and undertook her training years across Melbourne teaching hospitals, gaining fellowship of the RACP in 2006. She subsequently undertook a clinical research fellowship at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada.

Celia has undertaken dedicated allergy fellowship training at the Alfred Hospital Allergy and Asthma unit and continues to consult there. She is a member of the Alfred Health Adverse Drug Reactions Committee, as well as being an investigator in clinical trials and contributing to teaching within the unit. She has participated in the National Allergy Strategy and is a member of the ASCIA Allergen Immunotherapy Working Party as well as being a member of a new collaboration, the Australian Registry of Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reactions (AUS-SCAR). She is involved in clinical research through the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Masters Program.

She is a current Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), Member of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA), the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS).

Julia Kittscha has been a Clinical Nurse Consultant in Stomal Therapy for 23 years. Her current role at Wollongong Hospital in NSW Australia encompasses the acute setting, nurse led clinic, periphery hospitals and community. During her career she has presented at national and international conferences. She has several Journal publications and has been Editor and peer reviewer for the Journal of Stomal Therapy Australia.

Julia has conducted research as part of a team and whilst completing her Masters by research. The research for her Master degree explored the experiences of patients discharged home from hospital with a newly formed ileostomy. Currently she is undertaking her PhD on adjustment to a stoma over time with a focus on the role of support groups and peer support. She is passionate about Stomal Therapy Nursing and relishes sharing her skills to empower others.

Dr William Smith MBBS (Hons) PhD FRACP FRCPA Specialist Immunology and Allergy Physician and Immunopathologist, Adelaide, South Australia William has more than 20 years of experience as a specialist Immunology and Allergy physician. He currently works in private practice as well as being a senior staff specialist in the Department of Allergy and Immunology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. His clinical and research interests include allergic rhinitis, allergen immunotherapy, drug allergy, urticaria and angioedema. He has published many studies in allergy and immunology. William completed his medical degree from Adelaide University in 1985 and completed his advanced training in immunology and allergy in 1993. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP) and Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) since 1994.

Prof Creswell Eastman AO is Clinical Professor of Medicine the University of Sydney and a Consultant Physician in Endocrinology and Public Health. He is a Consultant Emeritus at Westmead Hospital and was the Director of the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research (ICPMR) in Westmead Hospital from 1989 to 2006, NSW Government Analyst 1995-2006 and Foundation Director of Endocrinology Westmead from 1979 until 1990.
He has directed major research and public health projects into elimination of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) in Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, several Pacific Islands, China, Tibet, and Australia. He has served as a consultant to WHO, UNICEF, World Bank and AusAID on IDD programs in the Asia Pacific region.
He has authored more than 200 scientific and clinical articles in refereed journals and is the principal author of the chapter on IDD in the web-based textbook on thyroid disease www.thyroidmanager.org. He has been a member of the American Endocrine Society’s expert committee on Guidelines for management of thyroid disease in pregnancy. He has received many national and international awards for his contributions to Medicine.

Maddie is a clinical Dietitian specialising in paediatrics and supporting people with disabilities. Maddie has more than 13 years of experience working with people and families to improve their nutrition, physical health and mental wellbeing.

Maddie is passionate in supporting families to enjoy stress free mealtimes, eat a wide variety of foods, whilst optimising health, happiness and development.

Maddie offers a unique skillset with extensive experience establishing and working as part of a multidisciplinary feeding team for people with feeding disorders. Maddie can work with you to provide a holistic and highly tailored assessment and intervention that addresses a wide range of growth, nutrient, feeding and mealtime challenges.

Maddie is a mum which provides her with real world experience in feeding young children. She is also the owner and director of Hatch Dietetics.

Garth represents the Australian College of Nursing on the national Plus Paternal Network.
Dr Garth Kendall is a senior academic in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Curtin University, Perth. The focus of his work is child development, family psychosocial functioning, family life stress, parenting, fathering, and family factors in serious and chronic disease management. Garth is representing the Australian College of Nursing for the Plus Paternal Network, coordinated by Healthy Male.

Brett, BPharm (Hons), PhD, FACP is the Chief Pharmacist at the Australasian College of Pharmacy, where he is responsible for the Continuing Professional Development and accreditation functions. Brett graduated from the University of Queensland in 1993 and managed community pharmacies in metropolitan and regional Queensland for a number of years before completing a PhD in skin science at the UQ Medical School. Brett is an experienced medical writer, public speaker, and podcaster. His primary clinical interests are in dermatology and gastrointestinal health.

Dr Ali Safaa is an interventional cardiologist at GenesisCare. He has a special clinical interest in coronary intervention and has extensive experience in Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty and PFO closures.

Dr Ian Porter is the Director of Radiation Oncology at Cabrini Health and is based at GenesisCare Cabrini in Melbourne, Australia. His special interests include skin, gastrointestinal, lung and haematological malignancies. His other interests include stereotactic radiotherapy and he was the first Radiation Oncologist in Australasia to use Brainlab gated stereotactic radiotherapy for treatment of liver tumours. He is a trials investigator with TROG and the NHMRC.

Gary Browne is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chair of the Discipline of Emergency Medicine at the University of Sydney. He has been in clinical practice in acute and paediatric care for 40 years. As Medical Director of the Kids Concussion Service since 2006 and the head of the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury research laboratory at the Children’s Hospital Westmead, he runs a research-based clinical service. Professor Browne’s current research is focused on the mechanisms, the place of diagnostic biomarkers and new treatments for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury/ concussion in children and adolescents. He is author and editor of over 100 peer-reviewed papers and 20 textbooks on paediatric emergency and sports and exercise medicine.