Louise has a special interest in Aged Care nutrition, with 16 years of experience in this industry. Her mission is to bring deliciousness back into aged care, by supporting staff to create tasty, quality food that makes the residents want to lick their plates clean! She follows the motto Through the stomach, to the heart – we show we care for people through good food and company. She thinks outside the box when it comes to ways to achieve this, and works together with catering staff to develop and create quality and affordable meals.

Louise is based in Townsville and provides services to the surrounding areas as well.

Dr Lisa Clarke is a specialist haematologist who cares for patients with both malignant and non malignant conditions. She holds dual fellowship with both the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia having completed the majority of her training through the Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick. She has appointments at Sydney Adventist Hospital and the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood

Director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease

GP; President, Australian Society for Psychological Medicine; Senior Lecturer, Primary Care Clinical Unit, University of Queensland 
 

An Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Prof Paul Griffin was appointed as the Director of Infectious Diseases at Mater Health Services in 2013, and most recently, to his conjoint role as Head of the Mater Clinical Unit for the University of Queensland School of Medicine. Prof Griffin is an accomplished clinical trial investigator, having fulfilled the role of Principal Investigator in over 150 clinical trials, particularly in Infectious Diseases including 8 COVID-19 vaccines. Despite an already demanding role at the Mater, Prof Griffin continues as a member of the AMA Queensland Council 2023-2024, and as board member and scientific advisory board member of the Immunisation Coalition, with active interest in vaccine education and advocacy, becoming a trusted media authority and spokesperson across the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jill Newby is an Associate Professor, Clinical Psychologist and MRFF Career Development Fellow at UNSW Sydney and the Black Dog Institute. Her research focuses on understanding the nature, causes and treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders, with a key focus on online treatments and self-help programs for anxiety and depression.

Dr Jasneek Chawla undertook her specialist training in Edinburgh UK, followed by a Paediatric Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the Mater Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. She is now a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane and Senior Lecturer with the Medical School, University of Queensland. Dr Chawla is actively involved in clinical research and has been awarded a Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship for 2020 towards her PhD, evaluating the impact of sleep interventions on outcomes in children with Down syndrome. Her areas of research interest include sleep in children with disability, the relationship between sleep and long-term cognitive & behavioural outcomes in children and optimisation of the utilisation of continuous oximetry in infants with chronic neonatal lung disease.

Prof Michael Toole has 35 years experience working in the health sector in low-income countries in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. He is a medical epidemiologist and public health physician, with expertise in maternal and child health, including nutrition; communicable diseases control, including HIV prevention and care; primary health care program design and evaluation; sexual and reproductive health; and public health in conflict-affected and refugee populations.

Dr Ruth Barker is an emergency paediatrician and Director of the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit. She combines her experience of patient ED presentations with emergency injury data to advocate for injury prevention through design, standards and legislative change.

Dr Karen Spielman is the GP clinical lead at headspace Bondi Junction and Primary Care Mental Health Adviser at the Inside Out Institute, and supervises GP Registrars with the local GP training program.

Dr Maguire is a clinical psychologist, researcher, educator and policy maker with 20 years of experience in the field of eating disorders. She has worked across multiple settings including hospital, community, policy and research.