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.

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.

Christine Jenkins is Head of the Respiratory Group at The George Institute for Global Health; Senior Staff Specialist in Thoracic Medicine at Concord Hospital, Sydney; Clinical Professor and Head of Respiratory Discipline at University of Sydney; and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at UNSW Sydney.

Christine has been Principal Investigator and has led many investigator-initiated and competitively funded clinical trials in airways disease. She has had major roles in advocacy and leadership for lung health in Australia, chairing the National Asthma Campaign, the Federal Government’s National Asthma Advisory Group and many local and international guidelines and implementation initiatives to enhance resources, skills, capacity and clinical outcomes in airways disease. She was president of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand from 2007 – 2009.

Christine is an active clinician, and teaches and supervises medical students, advanced trainees and post graduate students. Her area of research interest is the clinical management of airways disease and patient reported outcomes in response to therapeutic interventions, and she is currently implementing trials in asthma and COPD management and pulmonary rehabilitation in Australia and Asia. Christine has written two books on asthma, one for medical students and one for patients, their families and carers. In 2002 she was made a Member in the Order of Australia for recognition of service to respiratory medicine as a physician, administrator and educator, especially in the field of asthma education.

She is on the Board of the Lung Foundation Australia, and is a member of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, the American Thoracic Society, European Respirator Society and the Asia-Pacific Society of Respirology.

Dr. Jansen is the Principle Investigator for a new observational study assessing the safety and efficacy of specific non-psychotropic medicinal cannabis. Incorporating medicinal cannabis therapies into his practice has allowed Dr. Jansen to effectively manage a range of conditions not responding to regular treatment. He has success with managing Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Pain, Anxiety and a range of other chronic disorders. Dr Jansen is an advocate and educator for pharmaceutical medical cannabis and is one of Australia’s leading prescribers of medical cannabis. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge to support other practitioners in their clinical practice and to advance patient care.