Professor Schlaich is a renal physician and an ESH accredited hypertension specialist. He has a specific interest in treatment modalities targeting the sympathetic nervous system and has contributed to the development of renal denervation as a novel therapeutic approach to hypertension. He has authored more than 340 articles and book chapters in peer reviewed journals and serves as President of the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia and on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Hypertension. He holds the inaugural Dobney Chair in Clinical Research at the Royal Perth Hospital and the University of Western Australia.

Patricia Conway, BSc & MSc (UQ), PhD (UNSW), MASM, has a strong research background complimented with employment in R&D in industry while being affiliated with universities in Sweden and Australia.
In Australia she has worked for CSIRO and also for a Cooperative Research Centre for Food Industry Innovation where she was University based and interfaced with the industrial partners.
In addition, and she was Chief Scientist for a biotechnology company while being based at the University of New South Wales, in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences.
She currently is (a) an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, (b) Chief Scientist and Director for a biotechnology company in Australia, and (c) Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and the NTU Food Technology Centre (NAFTEC).

Melanie McGrice is a fertility and prenatal dietitian. She is the founder of Nutrition Plus which runs dietitian-led workshops for couples trying to conceive, pregnant mums and introducing solids. She runs the ‘Nourish with Melanie’ YouTube channel and is an ambassador for Compassion’s ‘Mum’s and Bub’s Nutrition Clinics’ with the Nutrition Plus team sponsoring one in Tanzania.