Brett, BPharm (Hons), PhD, FACP is the Chief Pharmacist at the Australasian College of Pharmacy, where he is responsible for the Continuing Professional Development and accreditation functions. Brett graduated from the University of Queensland in 1993 and managed community pharmacies in metropolitan and regional Queensland for a number of years before completing a PhD in skin science at the UQ Medical School. Brett is an experienced medical writer, public speaker, and podcaster. His primary clinical interests are in dermatology and gastrointestinal health.

Dr Ali Safaa is an interventional cardiologist at GenesisCare. He has a special clinical interest in coronary intervention and has extensive experience in Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty and PFO closures.

Dr Ian Porter is the Director of Radiation Oncology at Cabrini Health and is based at GenesisCare Cabrini in Melbourne, Australia. His special interests include skin, gastrointestinal, lung and haematological malignancies. His other interests include stereotactic radiotherapy and he was the first Radiation Oncologist in Australasia to use Brainlab gated stereotactic radiotherapy for treatment of liver tumours. He is a trials investigator with TROG and the NHMRC.

Gary Browne is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chair of the Discipline of Emergency Medicine at the University of Sydney. He has been in clinical practice in acute and paediatric care for 40 years. As Medical Director of the Kids Concussion Service since 2006 and the head of the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury research laboratory at the Children’s Hospital Westmead, he runs a research-based clinical service. Professor Browne’s current research is focused on the mechanisms, the place of diagnostic biomarkers and new treatments for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury/ concussion in children and adolescents. He is author and editor of over 100 peer-reviewed papers and 20 textbooks on paediatric emergency and sports and exercise medicine.

Dr Tonia Mezzini is a Sexual Health Physician and General Practitioner. Since completing her training as a GP, she has worked at Clinic 275, Yarrow Place, Second Story Youth Health Service and Cervix Screen SA as part of her specialty training in sexual health. She was awarded a Master’s Degree in HIV, STIs & Sexual Health through the University of Sydney in 2013.

Tonia was the Director of Medical Services at SHine SA and has an appointment as a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. She works in private practice at Pelvic Pain SA and North Adelaide Family Practice. She is also the President- Elect of the Australian Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and a committee member for the Society for Australian Sexologists (South Australia).

Dr Bronwyn Jenkins is a neurologist from Sydney, Australia. Her undergraduate training was at the University of Newcastle. Her work is primarily in private practice with a subspecialist interest in headache, as well as running the headache clinic as an Honorary Medical Officer at Royal North Shore Hospital. She has written a postgraduate course in headache for the University of Sydney, with an interest in headache education. She is President for the Australian and New Zealand Headache Society (ANZHS), and Chair of the ANZHS Education subcommittee. She is a member of ARCH, IHS and AHS, having been a co-opted member on the International Headache Society Board from 2018 to 2020 and continuing on the education subcommittee of IHS.

Narelle is a Clinical and Health Psychologist located in Brisbane. Over the past 25 years, she has practiced across government and non-government settings; in the areas of mental health, and perinatal and fertility support, and currently operates a private psychology practice providing support to families during their perinatal and fertility journey, including specialist implications counselling for family creation using donor conception and surrogacy. She is particularly passionate about supporting families in the context of perinatal grief and loss. Narelle is an expert advisor for Healthy Male and is a member of the Plus Paternal Network.

Clare Boerma trained as a General Practitioner and is the Medical Director at Family Planning NSW. She was previously a conjoint associate lecturer at the school of Women’s and Children’s Health at UNSW.
Clare has become increasingly engaged in reproductive and sexual health, spreading her time across medical education, research and as a clinician at Family Planning NSW. She enjoys collaborating with interdisciplinary teams and contributing to research to inform optimal medical care.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery; Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners; Diploma of Child Health

Registered Nurse Rachael Mackinnon is the Clinical Lead at Parkinson’s NSW, responsible for the organisation’s community-based Parkinson’s Specialist Nurses and the 1800 InfoLine which is also staffed by a Registered Nurse.

Rachael trained at Royal North Shore and has more than 30 years of nursing experience across clinical nurse education, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, and Cardiac Angioplasty.

She has worked in the UK and New Zealand in addition to Australia. Rachael is a member of the Australian Neurological Nurses Association, NSW Nurses Association, and the Movement Disorder Society both the ANZ and International chapters

Dr Yohan Chacko is an Interventional Cardiologist.
Raised in Townsville, North Queensland, he completed his medical degree at James Cook University, graduating with honours. He undertook his cardiology training at Princess Alexandra and Nambour General Hospitals. Following this, he commenced Interventional Cardiology training at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and subsequently undertook a 12month Interventional & Structural Cardiology Fellowship at the world-renowned Stanford University in California, USA. On return to Australia, he underwent additional training in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), CT cardiac assessment and complex coronary procedures at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital.
Dr Chacko has particular interest in chest pain assessment, coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease and preventative cardiology. He performs coronary intervention (stenting) and TAVI. Dr Chacko is one of few cardiologists in the country trained in assessing for coronary microvascular dysfunction and vasospasm.
While completing his fellowship at Stanford University, he undertook research in minimally invasive aortic valve therapies and advanced coronary physiology including fractional flow reserve and microvascular dysfunction. He has published journal articles in national and international journals as well as a book chapter in Interventional Cardiology. His research has been presented at national and international conferences.
Dr Chacko is a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland and is actively involved in teaching medical students and junior doctors. He is also involved in developing improved devices for coronary stent delivery.
He currently practices at Greenslopes Hospital, St Andrew’s Ipswich Private Hospital and Ipswich Public Hospital.

*WINNER 2023 RACGP WA GP OF THE YEAR AWARD* Hi, I’m Andrew! I am the director of The Garden Family Medical Clinic in Murdoch & Piara Waters. I trained in medicine, graduating in 2009 at Notre Dame University in Fremantle. I grew up in Melbourne. I’m married to Tanya, and we have two girls, Charlotte and Isabelle, they are the Centrepoint of my life. Before The Garden I have been involved in a number of projects including speaking about kids’ mental health for the GP college (RACGP) and at a number of conferences in Australia and Internationally. Alongside mental health, I also have an interest in family health, men’s health, skin checks and small procedures like toenail resections, iron infusions and skin lesion removals. The most inspiring part of my work is seeing families over a long period of time, I feel like I almost become part of the family in many respects as I have the privilege of hearing so many personal life stories. No two lives are the same, being a doctor has taught me that we are all so unique and this means treatments also need to be carefully tailored for each individual. The best piece of advice I’ve ever been given is to take every opportunity. I feel this is what has brought me to the Garden, one of the greatest opportunities of my lifetime. FRACGP, MBBS (ND FREMANTLE), BSC (UNIMELB), DIPCHILD HEALTH (UNISYD)