I’m a PhD student studying clinical trials methodology, specifically how exercise interventions can be optimised for people at risk of dementia, at the University of Birmingham. Previously I studied Psychology and Neuroscience, leading to my interest in user experience research. My previous research projects have been varied, and focused on: better understanding how environment affects alcohol use; understanding how dopamine receptors in the brain respond to electrical stimulation; and optimising exercise interventions for people at risk of dementia.

Debbie Rigby is a consultant clinical pharmacist from Brisbane. Since graduation with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Queensland she has obtained a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy, Advanced Diploma in Nutritional Pharmacy and certification as an Asthma Educator; and credentialed as an Advanced Practice Pharmacist. Debbie has special interests in geriatric pharmacotherapy, deprescribing, health behaviour change and asthma/COPD management, regularly conducts medication review services (Home Medicine Reviews) in collaboration with GPs in a medical centre, as well as providing education to pharmacists, general practitioners, nurses, nurse practitioners and consumers. Over the last 20 years Debbie has served on numerous committees for pharmacy organisations including as Chair and Director of the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP), national vice-president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and a PSA Qld Branch committee member. Debbie is currently the Chair of the PSA Interdisciplinary Team-Based Care Communities of Specialty Interest (CSI) and is on the Leadership Group of the Respiratory Care CSI. Debbie is a Fellow of PSA, Australian College of Pharmacy (ACP), Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and a Life Fellow of American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP). Academic appointments include Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Queensland and Griffith University, and a Clinical Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Debbie is a member of the QUT Bachelor of Pharmacy Course Advisory Group. Debbie also sits on numerous advisory boards and committees including: DVA Veteran’s MATES Practitioner Reference Group, International Pharmacists for Anticoagulation Care Taskforce (iPACT), Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) Medication Safety Oversight Committee, Active Ingredient Prescribing Advisory Group and National Quality Use of Medicines Project Advisory Group, Lung Foundation Australia COPD Clinical Advisory Committee and Primary Care COPD Advisory Committee, MIMS Australia Advisory Board, Glaucoma Australia Pharmacy Committee, Australian Pharmaceutical Formulary (APF) Editorial Board, Australian Deprescribing Network (ADeN), Deprescribing Taskforce, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) In 2001 Debbie was awarded the PSA Australian Pharmacist of the Year, in 2002 the PSA Qld Bowl of Hygeia, the inaugural 2008 recipient of the AACP Consultant Pharmacist Award and in 2016 awarded the Australian Clinical Pharmacy Award by SHPA. In 2020, Debbie was the first female awarded the PSA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Professor Weerasooriya is a UWA graduate of over 30 years who completed cardiology training at Royal Perth Hospital and Hopital Cardiologique Haut-Lévêque in Bordeaux, France. Rukshen has over 20 years experience as a sub-specialist cardiac electrophysiologist with a passion for all things heart rhythm related.

A/Professor Blackham is a Consultant Bariatric & General Surgeon, Academic and Director of Aurora Bariatrics. She is the only Surgeon to have won both the AMA WA Junior Doctor of the Year and the John Corboy Medal (highest award for a Surgical Trainee) from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. A/Professor Blackham undertook specialist training in bariatric surgery in Perth and Melbourne and was bestowed the IFSO Asia Pacific Medtronic scholarship in London as well as the ANZGOSA-Upper GI Younger Fellow scholarship. After completing 20 years of medical and surgical training she was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship, granting further access to international surgical immersions in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Singapore, London and Vienna. A/Professor Blackham is an academic surgeon, having completed two Masters in both Surgery and Legal Medicine, as well as a completed PhD researching quality and excellence within the discipline of bariatric surgery via The University of Western Australia. She was an Academic within the Discipline of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine for six years requiring teaching of trainee doctors and medical students, post-graduate surgical registrars and fellows. She is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of SOARD (Society for Obesity And Related Disease) and a Journal Reviewer for the Australian/New Zealand Journal of Surgery. She has continued a lifetime of advocacy for junior doctors within the Australian Medical Association and Postgraduate Medical Council of Western Australia. She is a Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Council-appointed member for both the Prevocational Skills & Education Committee as well as the Skills & Oversight Committee. She is dedicated to ensuring surgical safety and quality practice, as well as a kind and caring demeanour. She has a passion for pursuit of a healthy lifestyle and is an advocate for engaging in patient’s wellbeing and future health goals. A/Professor Blackham ensures compassion and pursuit of excellence in caring for all her patients. Qualifications MBBS Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (University of Western Australia) PhD Doctorate in Assessment of Performance of Sleeve Gastrectomy by Surgeons MS Master of Surgery (University of Western Australia) MLegM Master of Legal Medicine (Griffith University, Qld) DCH Diploma of Child Health (Princess Margaret Hospital for Children) DRANZCOG Diploma of Royal Australian/NZ College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology VGDWH Vocational Graduate Diploma in Women’s Health (King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women) FRACS Fellowship of The Royal College of Surgeons FACLM Fellowship of the Australian College of Legal Medicine International Fellow of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons (IFASMBS) Subspecialty Focus Bariatric surgery Sleeve Gastrectomy Gastric bypass surgery – One anastomosis gastric bypass, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass Removal of Gastric Bands Consulting Locations Murdoch: SJOG Murdoch Sessional Suites, SJOG Murdoch Perth: Mount Medical Centre, Perth 6000 (next to Mount Hospital) Subiaco: within Western General Surgery, 4/200 Rokeby Road, Subiaco Professional Associations AMA – Australian Medical Association RACS – Royal Australasian College of Surgeons GSA – General Surgeons Australia ANZGOSA – Aust & NZ Gastric and Oesophageal Surgery Association ANZMOSS – Aust & NZ Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (formerly OSSANZ) IFSO – International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders ASMBS – American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons

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.

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.

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

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 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 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.