A/Prof Della-Fiorentina OAM is a senior medical oncologist and has been providing high-quality cancer care in the Southern Highlands since 1999. He is the Director of the Macarthur and Southern Highlands Cancer Centres. He has specific interests in breast and lung cancer but provides multidisciplinary care in all solid tumours by linking with teams within South West Sydney Cancer Services.
He has extensive experience in multicentre randomised clinical trials; quality assurance programmes and registrar training. He provides education to medical students at Western Sydney University. He has worked with the Cancer Institute NSW on clinical indicators of quality care and the Clinical Excellence Commission on Diagnostic Error.
The Southern Highlands Cancer Centre accepts referrals from medical staff for all patients, including second opinions, whether they have private health insurance or Medicare only through a private-public partnership with South West Sydney Local Health District.

Najma Moumin is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, School of Medicine within the Discipline of Paediatrics. Her primary interests are public health nutrition, dietary assessments, and evaluation research. Prior to her PhD, Najma was a project manager working in international development research with a focus on nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. Najma’s PhD project, the Australian Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (OzFITS) is a cross sectional survey of a national sample of Australian children

Dr Rachael Sharman is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in psychology, specialising in child/adolescent development. Her research is focused on the optimal and healthy development of the paediatric brain and has covered the neuro/psychological impacts of dietary practices of parents and their children, physical activity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, genetic disorders, concussion, and childhood trauma. Dr Sharman’s current interests include: children’s play opportunities and the built environment, child protection issues including sexual abuse and high-conflict custody disputes, social media and adolescent development, and transitions from education to the workplace.

Joanna Baker is a dietitian who loves food and is passionate about digestive health. In 2015 she stepped out of the hospital environment to establish Everyday Nutrition, a specialist Private Practice in Melbourne. She now works with a team of expert dietitians who love to support people with digestive complaints to implement simple yet effective strategies that resolve gut symptoms without losing their enjoyment of food. Joanna has worked in healthcare for over 25 years. She is a committee member of the Adverse Food Reactions Interest Group with Dietitians Australia and on the Advisory Board for the Master of Dietetics at Deakin University.

Dr Brent Richards is Professor or Critical Care Research and Medical Director of Research Commercialisation at GCHHS, with interests in ICU infections, ventilation, and re-using data.
He was previously director of ICU, and executive director of surgery at GCUH; and a founding member of the National Intensive Care Clinical Trials Group.
For the last 2 years he has worked on ICU preparedness for QLD, including help guide purchasing decisions and sitting on many state and national Covid-19 committees. His current interests also include Artificial Intelligence, and he chairs the Advisory Board of the QLD AI Hub.

Warren Ward is Director of the Queensland Eating Disorders Service (QuEDS) and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland. He is Chair of the Queensland Health Eating Disorder Advisory Group and co-author of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Eating Disorders. In 2017 he received the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders (ANZAED) Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Eating Disorders. He has published more than forty articles and book chapters, most of them on eating disorders. He was recently appointed Medical Director of Wandi Nerida, Australia’s first residential program for eating disorders.

Dr Desmond Graham is a Geriatrician who graduated from the University of Newcastle and completed specialty training at Westmead and North Shore Hospitals. He is actively involved with the Australia and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine and holds an academic appointment as a Clinical Lecturer with the University of Sydney. Dr Graham has a special interest in healthy ageing and peri-operative medicine. He provides holistic, patient-centred care for all patients with major geriatric syndromes including dementia, delirium, frailty, falls and end of life care. He participates in a monthly Healthy Ageing segment with Deborah Knight on 2GB radio and holds regular forums for the Northern Beaches community.