Sandra Vale is the National Allergy Strategy Manager working across all National Allergy Strategy projects. Sandra was the project officer responsible for the development of the National Allergy Strategy launched in August 2015. Prior to her National Allergy Strategy role, Sandra was the ASCIA Education Officer developing education and training resources for health professionals and consumers. Sandra has a background as a public health nutritionist with extensive experience in training and assessment.

Sandra is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia undertaking research in a public health approach to implementing the ASCIA Guidelines for infant feeding and allergy prevention.

Sandra is the parent of an 18 year old with severe allergy and also has adult onset exercise induced wheat anaphylaxis. Sandra is a volunteer for Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia and has been the WA representative since 2007.

Dr Deb Mills has a passion for medicine and travel. She is the medical director of Dr Deb The Travel Doctor, and has been working in travel medicine since July 1988. She is one of the pioneers of Travel Medicine in Australia. This means she and her team have the expertise necessary to ensure you get the best travel medicine care possible. Dr Deb believes that travel and tourism can be a powerful force for good in the world, with the potential to benefit both the traveller, and those they visit. However, good health while travelling is essential for enjoying the adventure of travelling overseas. Her book ‘Travelling Well The ‘must-have’ guide to enjoying good health while you travel’ is now in its 21st edition, with over 215,000 copies in print. She is a regular on radio and television, and has been widely published on the subject of travellers’ health. As well as studying infectious diseases in Australia and many corners of the globe, she draws from her own travel experiences on all seven continents, to ensure travellers get the critical ‘been-there-done-that’ information that they need to travel with confidence and make the most of their journeys.

Professor Jason Ong is an academic sexual health physician with a passion for research among marginalized populations. He has a unique combination of skills and experiences of being a clinician, health economist and epidemiologist. He focuses his research on giving a voice to the voiceless and enjoys the challenge of shining light on taboo topics, to enable better decision-making.

Prof Susan R Davis AO is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Director, Monash University Women’s Health Research Program, Consultant Endocrinologist and Head of Specialist Women’s Health Clinic, Alfred Hospital Melbourne. She is past President of the Australasian Menopause Society and immediate past President of the International Menopause Society. She has over 435 peer-reviewed publications. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medicine, to women’s health as a clinical endocrinologist and researcher, and to medical education. In 2022 she was awarded the Medal of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians for her outstanding contribution and leadership in endocrinology and women’s health.

Ben Falkenmire is a freelance writer based in Sydney. His writing has appeared in Acuity Magazine, The Medical Republic, Investment Magazine, The Griffith Review, and The Courier Mail.

Dr Leong has almost 30 years experience in the management of childhood growth and endocrine disorders and children and adolescents with Type 1 and 2 Diabetes. He received his paediatric and endocrine training at the Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital, Randwick (now the Sydney Children’s Hospital) and the former Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children’s Hospital, Camperdown, before undergoing 3 years of clinical and research training in paediatric endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health in the USA. He also has a PhD in Molecular Endocrinology and Vitamin D action from the Garvan Institute, UNSW. He left the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane in April 2017 where he had been working the last 13 years as a Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes and as a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The University of Queensland.

Professor Bruce Robinson is an endocrinologist with over 30 years’ leadership experience as an academic physician and scientist across research, healthcare and medicine, and tertiary education. Bruce has both a Doctorate in Medicine and Master of Science from the University of Sydney.

Yasmin Clarke is a data analyst & visualisation expert who has provided insights for the NSW Department of Education; the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority; LG Professionals Australia; Roads and Maritime Service (RMS); Transurban; IBM among others. She has a background in science, accounting, and business strategy.

Dr Aajuli Shukla is a general practitioner with several years of experience working in the diverse communities of Western Sydney. She is one of the editors of the Medical Journal of Australia and is on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Diabetes Management Journal. Recently, she has also been involved in the editing and re-writing of the curriculum and syllabus for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is a passionate advocate of early intervention and community-based projects.

Dr Douglas is an Australian GP, and an international leader in infant-care. She is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) with the School of Midwifery and Nursing, Griffith University; and Senior Lecturer in the General Practice Clinical Unit, The University of Queensland. She is a writer and researcher, with special interest in perinatal mental health and breastfeeding medicine. Over the past twenty years, Dr Douglas has published the evidence-base to the programs known as Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC or ‘The Possums Programs’). NDC offers a paradigm shift in the way health professionals help families who face breastfeeding, baby sleep and cry-fuss challenges, and is changing practice world-wide. The same social and market forces which have brought us to the brink of catastrophic ecological crisis also shape women’s experiences in the healthcare system at this time of life. Conflicting advice, and over-diagnosis and overtreatment are widespread. Dr Douglas’s groundbreaking work is detailed in 30 international research publications and in her best-selling The Discontented Little Baby Book. Her very latest resources and courses for parents and health professionals are now available at The NDC Institute ndcinstitute.com.au. There is more information at pameladouglas.com.au.

Leigh Delbridge is an Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Sydney University. He is Australia’s most experienced parathyroid and thyroid surgeon and was head of the University of Sydney, Endocrine Surgical Unit for over 20 years. He only performs parathyroid and thyroid surgery and has done well over 10,000 such operations. The first minimally invasive parathyroidectomy in Australia using endoscopic techniques was performed by Professor Delbridge and published by the British Journal of Surgery. He has been the President of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, founding committee member of Australia and New Zealand Endocrine Surgeons, Chairman of the Section of Endocrine Surgery Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and committee member of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons and the International Society of Surgery. He is the past Chairman of the Surgical Research Society of Australia and has published over 350 papers on parathyroid, thyroid and related topics.

Dr Marina Berbic has undergone specialist training in Genetic Pathology at Prince of Wales Hospital and Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology. She attained Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in 2020 and joined DHM in 2021. In addition to a Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery, she holds a Bachelor of Medical Science, a Masters in Reproductive Health and Human Genetics and a PhD in Reproductive Medicine.
Dr Berbic is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Women’s and Children’s Health at the University of New South Wales, a member of the Mackenzie’s Mission (Reproductive Genetic Carrier Screening) Committee, and a member of the Splice ACORD (Australasian Consortium for RNA Diagnostics) Committee. She has a particular interest in reproductive genomics and is passionate about integrating sequencing technologies in clinical decision-making and personalised patient care.