Sandra Steele graduated in 1985 and worked predominantly in companion animal practice for over 30 years. After completing an MPH in 2014, she enrolled in a PhD in 2016 in the Sydney School of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney. She is currently a late-stage PhD student and has had the surreal experience of her research questions being illustrated in real-time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her thesis topic is Operationalising One Health: preparedness and response to zoonoses and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Australia

Dr Michael Talbot is a Specialist in Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Bariatric Surgery, therapeutic Endoscopy/ERCP, Oesophageal Physiology and Reflux. After Graduating from the University of Otago in 1992 he completed his Internship in Wellington, NZ before commencing residency and surgical training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. In 2001 he graduated from Advanced Surgical Training in Sydney South Eastern rotation then went on to complete further subspecialty training as the Lister Lecturer in Surgery at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary UK. He commenced consultant practice at St George and Wollongong Hospitals in 2003 as a UNSW Senior Lecturer in Surgery. In 2005 he consolidated his public hospital appointment to St George Hospital and currently consults at a number of other sites in Sydney and Wollongong.
During his career Dr Talbot has been a pioneer of complex Bariatric Surgery in NSW and has for the last decade had the highest caseload of these patients in the state. He performed Australasia’s first robotic bariatric and oesophageal surgical procedures. Dr Talbot offers the full range of endoscopic and surgical treatments for neoplasia in the oesophagus and stomach and runs NSW’s longest established High Resolution Oesophageal Diagnostic Lab. He is one of very few clinicians in Australia experienced in newly introduced endoscopic therapies to manage early tumours and oesophageal functional disorders.

A/Prof Ajeet Singh is a psychiatrist at The Geelong Clinic. He is also the Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin Medical School. Dr Singh is Executive Chairman & Founder of CNSDose which uses technology to analyse the genes of patients to assess how easy or hard it is for certain anti-depressant medications to reach that patient’s brain.

Susan Teerds is the CEO of Kidsafe Qld Inc. She is the Chair of the National Infant Safe Sleeping Working Group developing a Guide for manufacturers, retailers and consumers on Infant Sleeping Surfaces and Environments and a member of the Consumer Product Injury Research Advisory Group, Australian Injury Prevention Network, Public Health Association of Australia, Australian College of Road Safety and is the Kidsafe Australia Representative on the Australian Standards Committees for Infant Products, Prams and Strollers and Button Batteries. Susan is also the Kidsafe Australia representative on the National Water Safety Council, the Button Battery Recycling Initiative and the Child Care restraint Recycling Initiative. Susan has a BA with majors in Psychology and Journalism and a post grad cert in Philanthropy and Non Profit Studies.

Rhonda is a certified gynaecological oncologist with over 10 years’ experience as a senior staff specialist caring for women with gynaecological cancer. She is a strong advocate for the patient-focused multidisciplinary model of cancer care. She practices open and minimally invasive (laparoscopic and robotic) surgery for cancers of the ovary, uterus, vagina, and vulva. Her interests include surgery for ovarian cancer, metabolic and genetic influences of obesity-related endometrial cancer, prevention of gynaecological cancers, and patient preferences for cancer management.
Rhonda is actively involved in teaching and research activities locally and nationally. She is the immediate past-chairperson of the CGO committee of RANZCOG, and a member of several national committees involved in the planning and implementation of gynaecological oncology services in Australia. She is currently completing a PhD in peritonectomy and HIPEC for ovarian cancer.

John Michael Dwyer, AO (born 9 September 1939) is an Australian doctor, professor of medicine, and public health advocate. He was originally a Professor of Medicine and Paediatrics, then Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology at Yale University. Returning to Australia, he became Head of the Department of Medicine and the Clinical Dean at the University of New South Wales and Director of Medicine at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital, the University’s major teaching hospital, for over twenty years. In retirement he is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine of the University. He founded the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance, and was the founding president of the Friends of Science in Medicine until 2019. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for his service to public health.
After completing his PhD, Dwyer took up a one-year scholarship at Yale University in the USA. He was offered a Howard Hughes Medical Institute career development award in 1973, and a similar scholarship from the US National Institutes of Health and continued his career in the US.[3] During his 14 years at Yale, he became the Professor of Medicine and Paediatrics, and he was Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology for seven years. During this time AIDS emerged and Dwyer was engaged with the early efforts to identify and treat the disease.[4] He conducted research into the role that T8 cells play in AIDS.[1][2]
In 1985 he returned to Australia as Professor of Medicine and Head of the School of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. He was also the Director of Medicine for the University’s major teaching hospital, the combined Prince Henry / Prince of Wales Hospital. At the time, the growth of HIV/AIDS was his major area of research and clinical work, including the introduction of anti-retroviral drugs.[5]
The moral panic associated with AIDS meant that he also had to deal with political considerations. In 1987 he was a foundation member of the National Advisory Committee on AIDS (NACAIDS), which made a range of recommendations including syringe exchange programs in prisons and not segregating HIV-positive prisoners. These recommendations were not adopted at the time due to their political unpopularity.[6][7][8] He emphasised that years of experience in managing HIV/AIDS have confirmed that legislation and policy is most effective when it respects the human rights of the people concerned, especially non-discrimination, equality, and due process.[9]
In 1989, he was a senior adviser to NSW Health Minister Peter Collins and the Chief Health Officer, Sue Morey, during the events where Sharleen Spiteri, an HIV-positive sex worker, was forcibly detained. Dwyer had argued against this course of action, but he lost that argument, stating later that Collins was “quite open about saying that he felt he had to be seen to be being tough ¦ and protecting the community.”[10] Dwyer was then obliged to hold Spiteri in a locked ward in his own hospital unit for a short time. This came to public attention when the television show 60 Minutes featured the controversy.[11] Dwyer went on to found the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific, which still convenes bi-annual international conferences on HIV/AIDS in the Asia Pacific region, becoming its first president.[12][13]
Throughout his career Dwyer continued his research and he is an author of 184 articles on PubMed.[14] He has also written books, including:
* Management of the immune-compromised patient. Cutter Biological, 1983
* The Body at War: The Miracle of the Immune System. NAL, 1989; ISBN 0-453-00646-9
Dwyer served as Professor and Clinical Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for more than twenty years, until his retirement in 2006.[1][2][15] Following his retirement from full-time teaching, he was appointed as an Emeritus Professor at the University of NSW[16] and he is a Director of the Prince of Wales Hospital Foundation.[17]

Emeritus Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Emeritus Consultant Surgeon Royal Adelaide Hospital Consultant Adelaide Dental Hospital Private Specialist Practice Medico Legal Consultant TMJ Advisor The AOANJRR
Adelaide South Australia 5000

Emeritus Professor Goss’s research is centred on using Basic laboratory & Large scale clinical investigations on challenging Maxillofacial surgical problems. Over the years these have covered cleft palate & other syndromic conditions, Chronic facial pain, Temporomandibular joint disorders, Bleeding disorders & surgery, Osteoradionecrosis, Medication related osteonecrosis & the History of Maxillofacial Surgery.
Over 50 years’ experience of teaching Medical & Dental students.
Approx. 300 peer reviewed papers & Books Ongoing specialist private practice with equal Medical & Dental
100 hours of Computer assisted learning in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, General Medicine for Dental Students, & Orofacial pain.

Research Interests
* Cancer cell biology
* Dental Therapeutics
* Dentistry
* Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
* Oral medicine and pathology

Clinical Associate Professor Sheryl van Nunen MBBS MM(Sleep Medicine) FRACP Dr Sheryl van Nunen OAM is a Visiting Medical Officer at Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney and a Clinical Associate Professor of the Northern Clinical School of Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney. She first described the association between tick bites and the subsequent development of mammalian meat anaphylaxis, documented the first instance of a proven IgE-mediated mechanism in anaphylaxis to a food (mammalian meat) in systemic mastocytosis and first described ticks as an insect causing anaphylaxis in systemic mastocytosis. From 1985, until its merger with the Department of Clinical Immunology in late 2012, she was Head of the Department of Allergy at Royal North Shore Hospital. During this time she fostered innovation and scholarship within the Department and was the chief investigator in clinical trials of 75% of all new treatments for allergic conditions introduced to Australia. Dr van Nunen was subsequently Senior Staff Specialist in the Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy at Royal North Shore Hospital until her resignation on 30 June 2020. Dr van Nunen has published over 150 papers and articles regarding stinging insect hypersensitivity, anaphylaxis/food allergy, basic science of allergy, latex allergy, contact dermatitis, drug allergy, allergic rhinitis and urticaria/angioedema. A keen teacher and recipient of an Excellence in Clinical Tutoring Award from the Northern Clinical School, she has taught medical students at the University of Sydney for 35 years. In 2014, the graduating class awarded her Favourite Tutor. She has also supervised higher degree candidates for the University of Sydney. Dr van Nunen has been invited to speak in the People’s Republic of China, Argentina, Indonesia, Vietnam and New Zealand, as well as throughout Australia and New South Wales. In addition, she helped tutor Papua New Guinea’s first Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, organised the first delegation to China by the Australian College of Allergy (now the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy), trained and sponsored our Chinese colleague who set up Shanghai’s first (and China’s second) Allergy Clinic and supervised the inaugural Hoc Mai Foundation (University of Sydney) Fellow in Clinical Immunology and Allergy, later establishing with our Vietnamese colleague a now long-standing e-consultation service between Vietnam and Australia. Dr van Nunen, as a media spokesperson for allergy, in a voluntary capacity, for the Australasian College of Physicians, the Australian College of Allergy, the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, the National Asthma Campaign and the National Asthma Council Australia, has contributed to the understanding of allergic conditions by the public via numerous requested media contributions to television, radio, print media (popular books, newspapers, magazines and pamphlets), video productions and presentations, media launches and releases and audiotape presentations. Currently, her research interests comprise tick-induced allergies (both mammalian meat and tick induced anaphylaxis), new treatments for, and causes of, hayfever, egg allergy management in children and adrenalin autoinjector use in anaphylaxis, whilst being a member of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy’s Working Parties on Anaphylaxis and Insect Allergy.

Professor Kelton Tremellen is a gynaecologist and certified sub-specialist in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (RANZCOG) and has completed a PhD in Reproductive Immunology. He is Clinical Director at Repromed and Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Flinders University. He has an active research interest in oxidative stress as a cause of male infertility, immune mediated implantation failure and the effect of nutritional supplements on reproductive function. Professor Tremellen is the inventor of the male fertility nutraceutical Menevit and author of the book Nutrition, Human Fertility and Reproductive Function (CRC Press).

Professor Robin Daly has over 20 years of experience in conducting human clinical, public health and translational intervention trials to evaluate the role of exercise and nutrition for preventing and managing common chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, sarcopenia, falls, type 2 diabetes, certain types of cancer as well as cognitive related disorders. He is also interested in health issues related to vitamin D deficiency (and treatment), dietary protein. omega-3 fatty acids and chronic low-grade systemic inflammation, and the translation of evidence-based research into practice. He has been an active contributor nationally and internationally to clinical guidelines in the area of exercise, calcium and vitamin D for osteoporosis and fracture prevention. He is a council member of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society (ANZBMS) and the Austrralian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research (ANZSFR), a fellow of Sports Medicine Australia, a member of the Victorian Allied Health Research Network and a member of the medical and scientific advisory committee for Osteoporosis Australia. He is also the founder of the ‘Osteo-cise: Strong Bones for Life’ community-based osteoporosis prevention exercise program.

Dr Paul Mason obtained his medical degree with honors from the University of Sydney, and also holds degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Health. He is currently a Specialist Registrar in the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Medicine.

Dr Mason has experience in treating both members of the general public, and elite athletes in a number of sports. Teams he has worked with include Penrith Panthers, Sydney FC, Australian Men’s Waterpolo team and the Futsalroos.

Dr Mason has an interest in treating persistent back pain and tendon pain. His physiotherapy background assists him in providing a holistic approach while remaining up to date with the latest treatment approaches.

Dr Mason also has an in depth understanding of the latest science surrounding weight loss and nutrition. Using a low carbohydrate approach, he helps his patients achieve excellent results.