Experts

Healthed work with a team of general practitioners and medical professionals to ensure the highest quality education​

Dr Wadsworth is a medical registrar at Royal North Shore, completing her specialty training in Gastroenterology. Harriet graduated from Sydney University in 2017 after completing her undergraduate degree in Medical sciences with first class honours and postgraduate medical training in the MD program. She has previously worked at Gosford Hospital, where she was involved in published research, largely in hepatology and cirrhosis.
Dr Marita Long is a Victorian based GP working across clinical practice, medical education and research. Marita has recently been appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Primary Care at the University of Melbourne. She has a strong interest in women’s health and has completed her Certificate in Sexual and Reproductive health. She is a current committee member for the Australian Society of Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology, a member of the WIGP RACGP committee and is the current Vic/Tas representative on the board of the Australasian Menopause Society. Marita has developed and delivered many educational workshops both face to face and online and is passionate about upskilling GP’s to deliver the best evidence-based care to patients, especially women, who so often feel their voices aren’t heard. Marita is actively engaged in various projects related to dementia, is one of the cohosts of the podcast “Dementia in Practice” and has been appointed a Honorary Medical Advisor for Dementia Australia.
Prof Neal is a UK-trained physician who has 25 years’ experience in clinical, epidemiological, and public health research with a focus on heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Bruce has a longstanding interest in high blood pressure and diabetes and the potential for both clinical interventions and changes in the food supply to deliver health gains. His work has been characterised by its focus on collaboration, quantitation, translation and impact. He holds professorial appointments at UNSW Sydney, Imperial College London, and an honorary appointment at the University of Sydney. He has published some 450 scientific papers, and since 2016 has been identified by Thomson Reuters as one of ‘The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’, an acknowledgement provided to just a few thousand researchers across all disciplines, worldwide. He has particular expertise in the conduct of large-scale clinical trials addressing cardiovascular disease but has also done a significant body of work addressing food policy issues related to sugars, fats, portion size and food labelling.
Dr Talat Uppal is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist who currently works both at the Northern Beaches and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospitals as a Visiting Medical Officer. She has a DDU sonographic qualification obtained in 2010 which gives her an advantage of being formally trained in ultrasound.

She is the Director of Women’s Health Road, and has set up an innovative, digitally integrated, multidisciplinary obstetric and gynaecology service with in-house ultrasound facilities.

Dr Talat Uppal is also a Clinical Senior lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Northern Medical School, University of Sydney. Her past, decade long role was based at Many and Mona Vale Hospitals, as Senior Obstetrics Staff Specialist and Clinical Director of Women’s, Children & Family health. She is the past Chair of both the NSW State Reference Committee and NSW RANZCOG Education Subcommittee.

Dr Talat Uppal is a Fellow of the Australian Association for Quality in Health Care as well as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management. She is the joint coordinator of Diploma (DRANZCOG) OSCE examination as her special interest is supporting the role of General Practitioners in the Women’s health context. She is enrolled in a University of Sydney PhD looking at collaborative models of maternity care.

She is a RANZCOG media spokesperson and an active member of the RANZCOG Gender Equity and Diversity Working Committee. Dr Talat Uppal is fluent in 3 languages and has much overseas exposure with volunteer teaching work
Prof Richard Prince is a consultant endocrinologist and an academic teacher and researcher who has been practising for over 30 years in his special area of expertise. He is currently based at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Hollywood Hospital.

His qualifications include a undergraduate degrees in medicine and physiology ( MB. ChB., B.Sc) from Birmingham Univ, an MD from Melbourne Univ. on the subject of vitamin D metabolism and membership of both the UK and Australian College of Physicians (FRACP, MRCP(UK)).

His areas of expertise include general endocrinology with an emphasis on bone and mineral (calcium and phosphorus) disorders, thyroid disease and diabetes.

As a teacher and researcher he has supervised over 15 Ph D students, and many medical and science students. Dr Richard Prince has published over 200 research papers in top Journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Genetics.
As a clinician he aims to integrate his knowledge of disease processes into a management plan for the patient and their GP and advise on how this can be achieved successfully
Dr Lowy practices in Double Bay, Sydney at the Double Bay Specialist Suites and also offers Telehealth consultations.
Dr Lowy is a sexual health physician specialising in men’s health conditions, sexual medicine and counselling. He is specifically trained in the treatment of male sexual dysfunction (libido, erection, ejaculation disorders), relationship and sexual problems
affecting individuals and couples.
Dr Lowy has worked in the specialty of sexual medicine since 1992, with an interest in the physical and psychological causes and treatments. He obtained his original medical degree from the University of NSW. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine and obtained a Master of Psychological Medicine from the University of NSW. Dr Lowy is also a Fellow of the European Committee in Sexual Medicine.
Dr Lowy is a lecturer in Men’s Health at the University of NSW, Notre Dame University, Sydney University and Family Planning NSW. He is a founding member of the Society of Australian Sexologists (SAS) and has been awarded a life membership of ASSERT NSW.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr Lowy has been an investigator in numerous clinical drug trials of medical treatments for male sexual dysfunction. He has been a member of a number of pharmaceutical industry clinical advisory boards.
Amy is a senior research fellow at the Food & Mood Centre. She completed her Masters of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) and PhD at the University of Melbourne.
Clinically trained in neuropsychology, she is passionate about understanding the relationships between physical and mental health across the lifespan. A particular research interest of Amy’s is the gut and oral microbiomes and harnessing these to improve mental and brain health. In 2017 she was awarded the Jack Brockhoff Foundation Early Career Grant to examine the role of the microbiome in Alzheimer’s disease and cognition. She is also working on collaborative research regarding prenatal and early life predictors of child mental health at the Food & Mood Centre and the Barwon Infant Study.
Amy is an active communicator of science, and has written for The Conversation, The Research Whisperer and The Thesis Whisperer.
Prof Marshall is a medical clinician researcher and NHMRC Practitioner Fellow with specialist training in child health, vaccinology, and public health. She holds the position of Professor in Vaccinology at the University of Adelaide. Her main interests include meningococcal, Human Papillomavirus and pertussis infections and their prevention by immunisation.
Professor Felice Jacka is Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University. She is also founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research(ISNPR) and immediate past president of the Australian Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders. She has been responsible for the development of a highly innovative field of research establishing diet and nutrition as of importance to common mental disorders. These include the first studies to document a role for diet in adolescent depression the primary age of onset for common mental disorders the first study to identify both maternal and early life nutrition as important predictors of children’s mental health, and the first trial to show that dietary improvement can address depression. The results of the studies she has conducted have been highly influential, and she is widely recognized as international leader in the nascent but transformative field of Nutritional Psychiatry research.

Professor Jacka’s current research focuses closely on the links between diet, gut health, and mental and brain health. This work is being carried out with the ultimate goal of developing new, evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies for mental disorders. Professor Jacka has published >160 peer-reviewed scientific papers, the majority in high-impact journals in the mental health field including the American Journal of Psychiatry, World Psychiatry, BMC Medicine and Lancet Psychiatry. She is listed in the top ten most highly-cited researchers in mood disorders in Australia (Scopus).

Personally, Felice has a passion for food and medicine, as well as knowledge translation. She has written a book for the lay public called ‘Brain Changer’ through Pan Macmillan press in Australia (available internationally through Amazon) and is working on a children’s book with her husband (‘There’s a zoo in my poo’). Her hope is that her work will inspire individuals and families to prioritise a healthier way of eating to protect their mental and brain health over their lifespan, as well as influencing clinical practice for people affected by mental health problems. She is also passionate about prompting changes by policy-makers to improve the global food environment.
Dr Rebecca Deans is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW and a Consultant Gynaecologist and Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecologist at RHW and SCH. She has completed a PhD in Asherman’s Syndrome from UNSW. She also has a Masters of Medicine (Reproductive Health Sciences & Human Genetics) from Sydney University. Rebecca holds the Certificate of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (CREI). She is immediate past president of ANZSPAG and her research and clinical interests include Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, Oncofertility and Fertility Surgery.
Elizabeth is a gynaecologist and Medical Director of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health.
As a founder of Jean Hailes, it has been important to Elizabeth to continue Jean Hailes’ legacy. She believes the power of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health is its multidisciplinary structure.
Elizabeth worked at Queen Victoria Hospital and Prince Henry’s Hospital, which merged in 1987 to form the Monash Medical Centre. There, she was appointed Head of the Menopause Unit. Elizabeth served patients for more than 30 years across the three organisations. She now consults at the Jean Hailes Medical Centres in East Melbourne and Clayton, and also at a monthly clinic at the Foster and Toora Medical Centre, Foster.
Elizabeth enjoys being a role model for younger professional women, encouraging them to find a passion in their work and provide healthcare and education for our community. She finds working with women a profound privilege.
Elizabeth visits Mongolia each year with a multidisciplinary group of health professionals to teach, give lectures and provide clinical services, including surgery. The group has established a fellowship funded by Epworth Freemasons to bring two doctors from Mongolia to Australia for three months each year. Jean Hailes for Women’s Health provides clinical attachments across our disciplines. In 2018 Elizabeth was appointed Visiting Professor, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences.
In 2009, Elizabeth was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to medicine in the field of women’s health, particularly obstetrics and gynaecology.
Prof McCluskey is an internationally recognised inflammatory eye disease specialist.
Peter is currently Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Eye Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at The University of Sydney
He is also Director of the Save Sight Institute at Sydney Eye Hospital.