Experts

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Professor Adam Jaffé is a Paediatric Respiratory Consultant at Sydney Children’s Hospital and the John Beveridge Professor and Head of Paediatrics at the University of New South Wales. He trained in London and in Sydney and was consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children for 5 years before returning to Sydney. He specializes in children who have chest problems such as cough, asthma, chest infections and rare lung diseases. He has published over 100 research papers on children with lung disease. He is chairman of the NSW Department of Health, Aiming for Asthma Improvement in Children Program. His patients have access to one of the best respiratory diagnostic laboratories in the world at Sydney Children’s Hospital. He is an acknowledged expert in flexible bronchoscopy.
Clinical A/Prof Horgan teaches Psychiatry to final year medical students and as part of his lecturing role as a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Melbourne. As part of his Fellowship of the College of Psychiatrists, he attends multiple ongoing education lectures in various aspects of psychiatry. He also regularly attends a peer review group of almost twenty experienced psychiatrists and is also heavily involved in an Australia-wide suicide prevention charity and telephone service which he founded, the Australian Suicide Prevention Foundation.

Cindy is a registered nurse and midwife, International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBCLC) and maternal and child health nurse. She is the Clinical Director of Ternity Group and Co-Director of Sleep Smart and oversees the consultant team at Safe Sleep Space. Cindy is passionate about the health and wellbeing of families and offers a response-based approach to help babies and children with sleep problems.
Stephen Carbone holds qualifications in Medicine (MBBS), Social Work (BSW), Psychology (PostGradDipPsych) and Public Health (MPH). He has worked as a clinician in primary healthcare (general practice) and as a psychiatric medical officer within Victoria’s specialist mental health system. He has also held policy, research and evaluations roles in the mental health field including at DHHS, Orygen, headspace and Beyond Blue. Stephen is currently the Executive Director of Prevention United, a mental health promotion charity specialising in the prevention of mental disorders and he holds an honorary appointment with the University of Melbourne in the School for Population and Global Health.
Doctor Rebecca Burgell is a consultant gastroenterologist with an interest in pelvic floor dysfunction and functional gastrointestinal disorders. She completed her PhD at the University of London examining the physiology of the lower bowel in patients with severe functional constipation at the National centre for bowel research and surgical innovation based at Bart’s Health in London. She is expert in performing anorectal physiology investigations and endoanal ultrasound. Dr Burgell currently works fulltime at Alfred Health and Monash University where she is head of the Functional gastrointestinal disorders service and is actively involved in research in the field.