A/Prof Roderick Clifton-Bligh is Head of the Department of Endocrinology at Royal North Shore Hospital, and conjoint associate professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney. He completed a PhD in the genetics of thyroid disorders at the University of Cambridge. He now supervises dual research groups, one of which focuses on the genetics of endocrine neoplasms, and the other on metabolic bone disease.

Thomas Crow is a science writer and research communicator with a background in biochemistry. He writes for a number of Australian and New Zealand publications and research institutions, including Scitech WA, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure and the Australian Academic Research Network.

Dr Terri Foran is a Sexual Health Physician and has a special interest in contraception, menopause issues and the management of sexually transmitted infections. She is now in clinical practice in Darlinghurst. She is also engaged in both clinical and research work at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney and holds the position of Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in the School of Women’s and Children’s Health. She coordinates Phase 2 of their undergraduate Women’s Health program as well as supervising a number of modules in the Masters of Reproductive Medicine and Masters of Women’s Health Medicine Programs offered by UNSW.
Prof Susan Davis AO is a consultant endocrinologist at Cabrini Medical Centre and Head, Specialist Women’s Health Clinic for women with complex disease, Alfred Hospital Melbourne. She is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Senior Principal Research Fellow, Professor of Women’s Health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (since 2004) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Prof Davis has made a leading contribution to the understanding of the role of androgens and oestrogens in multiple non-reproductive target tissues including the brain (cognition, mood, sexual function), cardiovascular system (lipids, vascular function and coagulation) and other tissues (fat, muscle, joint cartilage and bone). She has published over 450 peer-reviewed manuscripts, has been an invited lecturer to over 200 international conferences and presented 100 distinguished plenary lectures.
A/Prof John Eden is a certificated reproductive endocrinologist and gynaecologist. He is a Conjoint Associate Professor at The University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is a visiting medical officer at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, Australia where he is Director of the Sydney Menopause Centre and the Barbara Gross Research Unit. Until recently he worked at the Moree Aboriginal Health Service. John is a Director of the Women’s Health and Research Institute of Australia (WHRIA). This is a private clinic located in Bathurst St, Sydney which has a large multidisciplinary group of health practitioners offering clinical and research services. He is a member of the Breast Cancer MDT at Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick.
Dr Rosie King is a sexual health physician with 30 years of clinical experience treating and managing a wide range of distressing sexual and relationship issues that can be medical, physical, relational, psychological or a combination. Her practice is in St Leonards and she sees individuals and couples to provide sex and relationship therapy.

Merryn is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and NHMRC Early Career Fellow based at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. Merryn is an experienced paediatric food allergy dietitian. Her research is focused on the long-term effects of early life dietary patterns and the prevention and management of food allergy.

Dr Alexander Padiglione is an Infectious diseases physician based at both Monash Medical Centre and The Alfred Hospital. He is a graduate of Monash University and also did his PhD in epidemiology there. His specific interest are in ICU and critical care infections and travel medicine, and has also spent over 25 years treating patients with HIV.

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Rosalyn Page is an award-winning technology, innovation and digital lifestyle writer, with bylines in publications including Wild Health, Information Age, CIO, CSO and CHOICE. Rosalyn also works with organisations providing content writing and strategy services.

Sanjaya Senanayake is an Infectious Diseases Physician and Director of Hospital at Canberra Hospital. He is a Lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School, as well as a Conjoint Lecturer at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales.

Dr Michael Eller is a neurologist with subspecialty training in headache neurology and movement disorders. He also maintains an interest in indigenous health and tropical medicine. He has previously worked as a visiting specialist at Monash Medical Centre and Royal Darwin Hospital, and currently at Monash Neurology.

In 2003, he completed a degree in medicine from the University of Sydney. Prior to this he completed a Bachelor of Science as well as much of a Bachelor of Arts with interests in archaeology and neuroscience. Postgraduate training was conducted at Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Darwin Hospital and The Alfred Hospital. Subsequent neurology training was undertaken at Monash Medical Centre and the Alfred Hospital after which he was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Australian College of Physicians. He completed a Movement Disorder Fellowship at the Alfred Hospital. In 2009, he worked as a doctor in Vunapope, Papua New Guinea, with Australian Volunteers International.

From 2012-2014, Dr Eller was on faculty at University California San Francisco, attached to the UCSF Headache Centre under Professor Peter Goadsby. He conducted clinical and functional neuroimaging research in this capacity, as well as maintaining a headache clinic.

Dr Eller has published a book chapter and several clinical and scientific papers in high quality peer reviewed medical journals. His published topics include progressive supranuclear palsy, the use if biomarkers in parkinsonism, the utility of imaging in headache, the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs), and visual snow.

Dr Eller specialises in the management of movement disorders such as Parkinson disease, essential tremor, progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, dystonia and other neurodegenerative disorders. He is expert in administering injection treatments for cervical dystonia, blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm.

Dr Eller also specialises in the management of headache disorders such as migraine and TACs such as cluster headache. This includes the administration of injections for treatment migraine and the TACs. He is able to perform injections for axillary hyperhidrosis. He also manages other general neurological disorders such as vertigo, cognitive problems, multiple sclerosis, neuropathy and epilepsy.

Dr Allen is a respiratory and sleep physician. He also does general paediatrics and allergy management. He offers services such as allergy testing and pulmonary lung function test. He works with the paediatric sleep study units at Sydney Adventist Hospital and Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick for performing paediatric sleep studies. Both these Sleep Centres now offer a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic intervention sleep studies for children.

Dr Hugh Allen graduated from the University of Sydney in 1979 and completed his fellowship in 1985. He has been a fully qualified paediatric sleep physician since 1987 through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has worked both in rural and outback NSW. He is currently a Visiting Medical officer at the Royal North Shore Hospital and has worked there for the last 25 years.

Sharon Smith is a health and medical journalist and content writer, with work published in Australian Hospital and Healthcare Bulletin, Nursing Times, Australian Pharmacist, The Limbic, Stockhead, and across the Australian Community Media rural news network.