Professor Nick Zwar joined Bond University in 2019 as Executive Dean. Nicks’ background is in medicine as a general practitioner and as a primary health care teacher and researcher. Nick was previously Dean of Medicine at University of Wollongong and prior to that Professor of General Practice and Deputy Dean (Education) at the University of New South Wales. He has a national and international reputation in health services research on prevention and management of chronic illness, with a focus on respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Other clinical, teaching and research interests include tobacco control, immunisation, and travel health. Professor Zwar has led the development and contributed to several sets of Australian and international clinical practice guidelines and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications. Over the course of his academic career Nick has maintained involvement in clinical practice, working part time as a general practitioner for over 30 years.

Professional admissions
* Fellow Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
* Fellow Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
* Member and past President, Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care
* Member, Editorial Board, Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases
* Member COPD-X Evaluation Committee, Lung Foundation Australia
* Chair, Editorial Committee, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice 9th edition
* Chair, Expert Advisory Group, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guidelines
* Deputy Chair, Australian Travel Health Advisory Group
* Quality Assurance Examiner for Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

A/Prof Ching Li Chai-Coetzer is a Sleep and Respiratory Physician at the Sleep Health Service, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, and an NHMRC Postdoctoral Early Career Research Fellow at Flinders University.

Her research work focuses predominantly on the use of ambulatory, community-based models of care for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with the goal of improving equity of access to sleep services worldwide, as well as strategies to optimise treatment adherence in patients with sleep disorders

Dr Marc Jurblum is an advanced trainee in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry working with the Alfred Hospital Mental Health Service. He completed his medical training through Deakin University and a subsequent Masters of Psychiatry through the University of Melbourne. Marc is a member of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ASAM) and was a founding member of the Space Life Sciences Sub-committee. In this capacity he helped establish the Bioastronautics Australia Network and has been a faculty member for the Humans in Space space medicine course run since 2017. He completed the International Space University (ISU) Southern Hemisphere Space Program (SHSSP) in 2014 as well as a Graduate Certificate in Space Studies via the University of South Australia. He is currently enrolled in a PhD through the University of Melbourne working with the St Vincent’s Hospital Department of Psychiatry. Marc’s research involves recent developments in visual neuroscience and lessons from isolated and confined environment psychology and extreme environment habitat design. The project aims to improve patient recovery as well as staff performance and wellbeing in a stressful healthcare ward setting.

Professor Maher is a tertiary referral Urogynaecologist working at the Wesley and Royal Brisbane Urogynaecology Units. His long interest long interest in research has been rewarded with over 150 peer review publications and a PhD at the University of QLD.

He has lead the Queensland branch of the Continence Foundation of Australia, served as secretary of the AGES board and chaired the Royal Australian & New Zealand College Urogynaecology Sub-specialty Committee and Urogynaecology Society of Australasia (UGSA).

Professor Maher also leads the prestigious Cochrane review on the surgical management of prolapse since 2004 and the International Collaboration Incontinence (ICI) on the surgical management of prolapse since 2012. In 2021 he co-chairs the 50th International Continence Society meeting in Melbourne.

Prof Kristine Macartney is a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases and vaccinology. Kristine is currently the Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), a paediatric infectious disease consultant at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and a Professor in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney. Her research interests include translation of evidence into policy and practice, vaccine safety, and most other areas of vaccine preventable diseases research, particularly in relation to rotavirus, varicella zoster virus and influenza. She is the senior editor of the Australian Immunisation Handbook.

Dr Penny Browne is the Chief Medical Officer at Avant, advising the Senior Management Team on all clinical matters, and leading the team that promotes quality, safety and professionalism in medical practice through advocacy, education and research. Penny is a general practitioner and has worked extensively in General Practice education. She is currently a Senior Staff Specialist in General Practice at Hornsby Hospital, NSW.

David Sullivan is a physician and chemical pathologist in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. This includes conjoint appointment as Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney Central Clinical School. David has a long-term interest in lipid metabolism with particular emphasis on the environmental component (especially dietary) of gene environment interactions contributing to cardiovascular disease. He has been involved in the early use of many forms of lipid-lowering intervention and has a particular interest in interventions arising from nutritional principles, such as the cholesterol-lowering effect of plant sterols. His other main interest is the improvement of detection and management of severe inherited dyslipidaemia, such as that seen in Familial Hypercholesterolaemia. David has experience in several international clinical posts, including registrarship at the MRC Lipoprotein Unit, Royal Postgraduate School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London and co-ordination of international clinical studies from the World Health Organization reference lipid laboratory in Wageningen, Netherlands. In addition to his clinical activities in Australia, he has served on numerous clinical committees including the management committees of the LIPID and FIELD trials. Current research interests are focussed on biomarkers and post-prandial metabolism

Catherine Sinclair is board certified in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in Australasia and the United States. She completed fellowships in Head and Neck surgery and Laryngology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the New York Center for Voice and Swallowing, respectively. She is an active member of many Endocrine National Committees including the Executive Committee of the Endocrine Section of the American Head and Neck Society and the Guidelines and Statements Committee and Diversity Committee of the American Thyroid Association. She has published numerous peer reviewed papers and consensus statements on thyroid disease, thyroid cancer and operative techniques during thyroid and parathyroid surgeries. Her team has pioneered a new continuous neuromonitoring technique for the vagus nerve which can monitor motor, sensory and brainstem vagus nerve pathways during thyroid and brainstem surgeries. In 2019, she performed the first radiofrequency thyroid nodule ablation in New York and pioneered one of the first thyroid radiofrequency ablation programs in the United States. Research interests include intraoperative neuromonitoring of laryngeal nerves and voice preservation during thyroid and parathyroid surgery, radiofrequency ablation of thyroid nodules, and neurophysiology of the human larynx.

Professor Thierry Vancaillie is a gynaecologist and pain specialist, renowned for his role in developing minimally invasive procedures, including hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgery. His expertise includes pudendal neuralgia, pelvic pain, post-surgical pain and the surgical treatment of infertility with Asherman’s Syndrome.
He has published over 200 papers, ranging from the application of electrosurgery to the world-first pilot study utilising Botulinum Toxin for pelvic floor muscle pain. He is a founding director of the Women’s Health and Research Institute of Australia working with our large interdisciplinary team.
After studying medicine in Namur, Belgium from 1973-1976 then Leuven, Belgium 1976-1980, Professor Vancaillie went on to complete his obstetrics and gynaecology specialist training in Bremen, Germany in 1985. He is a fellow of the RANZCOG, as well as fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine (FFPMANZCA).

Dr Sara Whitburn (she/her) 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. Sara specialises in genital health, menopause, and IUD insertion training. Sara is excited about enabling healthcare professionals to deliver great sexual and reproductive healthcare

Dr Nathan Connelly is a highly skilled and well respected gastroenterologist and hepatologist. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Melbourne in 1995 and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Nathan began his working career at The Austin Hospital in Heidelberg in 1996. Since then, Nathan has practiced as a specialist gastroenterologist and consultant physician, in both public and private practices.
Nathan performs gastroscopy, colonoscopy, polypectomy, hemorrhoid banding, flexible sigmoidoscopy, capsule endoscopy and also specialises in helping patients with inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease and liver disease.
Nathan is a founding director of Moonee Valley Specialist Centre. In addition to providing private consultations in his clinic, he treats patients at Warringal Private hospital, Epworth Freemasons, Brunswick Private Hospital and St Vincent’s Private Hospital.
Nathan is a member of the Australian Association of Consultant Physicians, Gastroenterological Society of Australia and the Conjoint Committee for Endoscopy Accreditation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Dr Kennedy trained in Paediatrics and Clinical Genetics in Sydney and Toronto. Canada. She is Director of MotherSafe which was established at RHW in 2000. She is committed to providing evidence-based information and counselling on exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding to both consumers and health professionals.