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

Expert panel – Dr Terri Foran, Prof Rod Baber, Prof John Eden, Dr Sara Whitburn

Prof Baber is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Sydney and operates a specialist Gynaecology and Reproductive Endocrinology practice based on Sydney’s lower north shore. He also heads the menopause and menstrual disorders clinic at Royal North Shore Hospital. Prof Baber is a life member and Past President Australasian menopause Society as well as Past President International Menopause Society where he is also Honorary Life Member.
Dr John Eden (MB BS MD FRCOG FRANZCOG CREI) is a reproductive endocrinologist and gynaecologist. He is a Conjoint Professor in the Department of Women and Children’s Health, Royal Hospital for Women (University of New South Wales). He is a visiting medical officer at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, where he is Head of the Menopause Unit. John is a Director of the Women’s Health and Research Institute of Australia (WHRIA). He is a member of the Breast Cancer MDT at Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick. John is on the executive committee and co-chair of the NSW Health (ACI) Menopause Hub project. His research and clinical interests include managing menopause after breast cancer, early menopause, hormones and mood disorders, PMDD, menopausal hormonal therapy as well as herbal medicine. He has also written over 150 scientific publications.
Dr Terri Foran is a Sexual Health Physician and has a special interest in contraception, menopause issues and the management of sexually transmitted infections. She was previously the Medical Director of Family Planning NSW and is now in clinical practice in Darlinghurst. She is also engaged in both clinical and research work at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney. Dr Foran holds the position of Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in the School of Women’s and Children’s Health. She coordinates Phase 2 of their undergraduate Women’s Health program as well as supervising a number of modules in the Masters of Reproductive Medicine and Masters of Women’s Health Medicine Programs offered by UNSW.
Dr Sara Whitburn is the Deputy Medical Director at Sexual Health Victoria. She has a Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practice, has Diplomas in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Family Planning. Dr Whitburn specialises in genital health, menopause, and IUD insertion training. Dr Whitburn is excited about enabling healthcare professionals to deliver great sexual and reproductive healthcare.

Prof Christopher Rowe

Professor Christopher Rowe BMBS, FRACP, MD, FAANMS is a nuclear medicine physician and neurologist, with over 20 years of experience in dementia research and patient care. He is the Director of Molecular Imaging Research at Austin Health, Melbourne, Professorial Fellow University of Melbourne, a NHMRC Practitioner Fellow and is the inaugural Director of the Australian Dementia Network. His research focus is molecular imaging and blood diagnostics of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s Disease, for better understanding, earlier more accurate detection, and to facilitate development of early therapeutic interventions. He has over 400 publications and is in the 2021 Highly Cited Researcher list of the top 1% world-wide for neuroscience with over 7,500 citations of his papers per year, and has received the 2011 US Society of Nuclear Medicine Kuhl-Lassen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Brain Imaging and the 2016 Christopher Clark Award for advancing human brain amyloid imaging.

Dr David Cunnington

Specialist sleep physician Dr David Cunnington, provides healthcare to patients with a range sleep problems. With qualifications from two Australian Universities and a Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, David takes a broad approach to diagnosis and management of sleep disorders. David has a particular interest in measuring sleep using a range of technologies and is an expert in the interpretation of sleep data. Thanks to his broad experience and qualifications, David is able to use of a range of treatments, including behavioural and psychological strategies, devices and medications to manage sleep problems.

Jane Bollen

With a background of nursing and accounting, plus a focus on systems and organisation, Jane is a great believer in data driven improvement for your healthcare business. She is also passionate about nurses working to their full scope of practice in primary care. This passion resulted in Jane serving as a board Director with the Australian Primary Health Care Nurse Association (APNA) 2016-18. Jane loves to explore strategies for general practices to keep improving, as well as discuss the challenges they find implementing chronic disease management into their systems and processes. She coaches and supports nurses to improve the care of their patients and is a data queen – helping people make a difference by making data matter to them. RN Cert(CritCare) CertIVTAE DipAcct GAICD

Dr Chris Bollen

A GP and experienced healthcare leader with clinical and consulting expertise in chronic disease management, doctors’ health, care of older people, the primary health care/community/hospital interfaces, quality improvement and change leadership. Chris is Director of Bollen Health after having previously been a CEO of a Division of General Practice and Director of GP Training Queen Elizabeth Hospital. MBBS MBA FRACGP FACHSM MAICD

Dr Shruti Swamy

Dr Shruti Swamy is a specialist paediatric allergist and immunologist with appointments at Royal Prince Alfred and Royal North Shore Hospitals. She has set up multiple allergy services in both metropolitan and regional centres. Her areas of expertise include the following: IgE-mediated allergies: food, drug, venom Gastrointestinal allergic disease: eosinophilic oesophagitis, Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES), allergic enteritis/proctocolitis Severe eczema Allergic rhinitis, allergic airways disease Chronic urticaria Autoinflammatory conditions (including periodic fever syndromes) Autoimmune conditions Suspected immunodeficiency/immune dysregulation

Dr Sameer Karnam

Dr Karnam completed advanced training in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine through 3 large metropolitan hospitals in Melbourne – the Alfred Hospital, St Vincent’s Hospital and The Royal Melbourne Hospital. During this time, he was the trainee representative on the Victorian branch of the Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand (TSANZ). Dr Karnam currently holds a specialist position at Alfred Hospital where he undertakes clinics in general respiratory, advanced lung disease/lung transplantation and sleep and ventilation whilst also managing inpatients. He is also skilled in procedures including bronchoscopy and EBUS-TBNA for diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. Dr Karnam current clinical practice covers a wide range of disorders. He specialises in a number of respiratory and sleep conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, diagnosing lung cancer, obstructive sleep apnoea and narcolepsy. Between 2020 and 2022, Dr Karnam assisted in the response to the coronavirus pandemic by helping on the frontline. Sameer was part of the COVID-19 rotation at the Alfred Hospital where he managed a team of doctors and nurses in caring for those unwell with COVID-19 on the dedicated COVID ward. In addition to his clinical work, Dr Karnam is actively involved in research. He has presented at both national and international conferences, whilst also being involved in teaching junior doctors. He is also involved in GP education talks to highlight the importance of recognising and managing respiratory and sleep disorders in the community. Dr Karnam is dedicated in delivering patient centred care tailored to each individual patient. His goal is to assist patients in making the right choices for their medical condition whilst providing the highest quality, comprehensive and compassionate care.

Dr Angela Molga

Ibrahim Javed

Dr Ibrahim Javed is currently an Enterprise Fellow (Senior Lecturer) and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia. He is also an adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland. He completed his doctoral studies at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2020 and postdoctoral research at AIBN, The University of Queensland. He joined the University of South Australia in 2023 where he is now directing the laboratory of Gut-Brain Axis, Aging and Therapeutics. Research in Javed’s lab focuses on the gut-brain axis and its implications for aging and Dementia. His research team is working to unfold the specific role of bad/pathogenic gut bacteria in the aging paradigms and Dementia associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. His team has discovered and published the molecular details of how bad bacteria in the gut can trigger a younger onset (aged under 65) and accelerate Dementia and how the brain can develop Dementia when fighting with microbial biofilms in the gut – the infectious etiology of Dementia. With this research trajectory, his vision is to develop towards a multifaceted therapeutic intervention for aging-associated diseases and Dementia. He also has a passion for public communication of scientific research and has published research stories in The Scientia Global Magazine UK, Insight+, The Medical Journal of Australia, interviews through ABC Radio, Radio 2 SM, Herald Sun and Channel 7 News. He is also an editorial board member of Nature Communications Biology journal.

Dr Lavender Otieno

Dr Lavender Otieno (PhD) is an Early Career Researcher behavioural scientist whose work focuses on the growing concern of nicotine use among young adults in Australia. Dr Otieno came to Flinders University from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute where she focused on investigating the motivating factors behind the growing use of nicotine vapes among adolescents in South Australia for translational implementation. Her current research interests Include: Tobacco control and smoking cessation Vaping product and e-cigarette use

A/Prof Anthony Venning

I am a Psychologist in the Discipline of Behavioural Health, College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University. My clinical expertise is in strength-based psychotherapy, and research interests include the design of digital mental health technologies, the lived experience of health service users, the acceptability and effectiveness of low intensity cognitive behaviour therapy, and strength-based mental health promotion.

Dr Joshua Trigg

Dr Joshua Trigg is a public health researcher with training and experience in psychological and population health research. His work focuses on health and occupational health risk factors, risk attitudes and motivators of risk behaviours. Dr Trigg came to the Flinders Public Health Team from Cancer Council South Australia, where he researched tobacco and alcohol use attitudes and behaviours, as well as community perceptions of culturally focused tobacco cessation messaging. His previous work has examined motivators and inhibitors of emergency risk taking behaviour, and wellbeing and quality of life domains, and has used various quantitative and qualitative methods. He is a member of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs and Public Health Association of Australia, and has worked with government health bodies, non-profits and various community organisations across Australia. His current research interests include: – Tobacco control and smoking cessation – Vaping and e-cigarette use – Alcohol consumption patterns – Health risk behaviours – Health promotion/risk messaging effectiveness – Wellbeing and quality of life Qualifications – PhD (Psychology) – BPsycSci(Hon) (First Class)

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