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.

Science writer and broadcaster with a PhD in science innovation

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.

Nancy Notzon is a freelance journalist based in the NSW Hunter Region

Prof Grant Waterer is the acting EMHS Area Director of Clinical Services and acting Director of Clinical Services at Royal Perth Bentley Group. He is also a respiratory physician at Royal Perth Hospital, Professor of Medicine at the University of Western Australia and Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago. He is currently the Chair of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America Community Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines and a panel member of the ATS/IDSA HAP/VAP guidelines. He has over 150 peer reviewed publications, more than 60 invited international presentations and is on the Editorial Board of eight journals including the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Chest and the European Respiratory Journal.