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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.
Neale Cohen is currently the Director of Clinical Diabetes at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne. He is an endocrinologist in clinical practice for over 20 years at the International Diabetes Institute and now the Baker. In his current position he is responsible for the management of one of the largest diabetes outpatient service in Australia, including two Melbourne based services, an outreach service in Central Australia and a Telehealth service in regional Victoria. His clinical research interests include indigenous diabetes, Type 2 diabetes therapeutics, and technology in Type 1 diabetes. He has currently appointments as Associate Professor at University of Queensland and Monash University
He graduated from Monash University in 1984 doing post graduate training at the Alfred Hospital, the International Diabetes Institute and the Austin Hospital and attained his specialty status in endocrinology in 1992
Eli is a consultant psychiatrist, holds an academic position at Monash University through the Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, and is the medical director of Malvern Private Hospital, the first addiction hospital in Australia. He is a member of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD). Clinically, Eli is interested in the deep connections between trauma and addiction and works within a neuro-psychoanalytic framework. Eli has overseen the development of a clinical program for addictions focused on trauma, particularly developmental trauma. This has led to an interest in medication-assisted trauma therapy. Eli worked for many years researching neurodegenerative diseases and was the principal investigator on numerous trials for novel therapeutics. He is now involved in addiction research involving the retraining of neural pathways underlying incentive salience in methamphetamine addiction. Through involvement with Monash University, Eli oversees the addiction rotation for medical students.
Clinical Associate Professor Rob Will BSc(Hons) MBBS FRACP EMBA trained in Rheumatology, Osteoporosis and Epidemiology in Perth and Bath, UK. He then returned to Perth in 1991 and established Rheumatology and Osteoporosis clinics at Royal Perth Hospital. He retired from RPH in 2016 and runs a busy private practice in Perth, with a keen interest in DEXA and Osteoporosis Management. This is facilitated by providing telehealth services throughout Australia with a particular focus on Osteoporosis Management. His Osteoporosis Company (Osteoporosis Solutions Australia), provides DEXA scanning services to over 20,000 patients a year in WA and NSW. He runs a private research group with interests in osteoarthritis, as well as clinical studies in RA, psoriatic arthritis, spondyloarthritis, osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. He collaborates with researchers at Curtin University in Perth on studies in osteoarthritis of the knee. He is a supervisor of PhD students, summer school students at UWA and Medical Students at Notre Dame University in Perth undertaking research studies. He established Perihelion Health Ltd a public unlisted company to develop Private Multi-specialisation hospitals with public partnerships, with the first hospital planned in Perth’s northern suburbs in 2020.
Dr Darren Katz is a urological surgeon who serves as Medical Director of Men’s Health Melbourne and Clinical Advisor for Healthy Male. He is also the Chairman elect of the Andrology Special Advisory Group to the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand.
A/Prof Bette Liu is a medically trained epidemiologist. She completed her medical degree and a Masters of Public Health at the University of Sydney and her doctorate in epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Her interests are in infections and reproductive health, as well as large scale prospective cohorts and data linkage studies. She has research projects suitable for PhD or Masters programs as well as ILP students.