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BMedSc MB BS UNSW, PhD Syd, MRCP, FRACP, FAFPHM Professor Guy Marks is a respiratory physician and environmental epidemiologist. His main research interests are in chronic respiratory disease (asthma and COPD), tuberculosis control and the adverse health effects of exposure to air pollution. He is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at UNSW, South Western Sydney Clinical School. He is currently an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. He is head of the Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology group at the Woolcock Institute and an Honorary Professor at The University of Sydney (Sydney Medical School).
His other major roles include Editor-in-Chief (lung diseases) of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Vice President of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Chair of the NSW TB Advisory Committee, and Chair of the NSW Chief Health Officer’s Expert Advisory Committee on Air Pollution. He also received an Achievement Award by the NHMRC in 2014 for being the top-ranked applicant for a Research Fellowship in that year.
Virologist at the University of Sydney’s Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity at Westmead Hospital
Tony Blakely, MBChB, MPH, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and Affiliate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. From 1998 to 2019 he was at the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, where he was Director of the Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness program.
Bill Bowtell is Adjunct Professor at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW.
Bill a strategic policy adviser, with particular interest in national and international health policy structures and reform. He trained as a diplomat, with postings in Portugal, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe.
As senior adviser to the Australian health minister, Bill Bowtell played a significant role in the introduction of the Medicare health insurance system in 1984.
He was an architect of Australia’s successful and well-regarded response to HIV/AIDS.
Between 1994 and 1996, Bill Bowtell was senior political adviser to the Prime Minister of Australia. He maintains a close interest in the potential impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the other communicable diseases, on the social, economic and political development of the Asia-Pacific region.
Since 2005, Bill was Director of the HIV/AIDS Project at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and, since 2009, the Executive Director of Pacific Friends of the Global Fund. Pacific Friends is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In these positions, he has sought to increase knowledge and awareness of the challenges posed globally, and to the Pacific region, by the three diseases.
He has written and broadcast extensively on these subjects and participated in many international and Australian conferences and seminars especially in relation to HIV/AIDS.
Dr Ahmadi is an Urologists and Urological Cancer Surgeon and one of the few Australian urologists with a fellowship degree in Advanced Robotic Urological Oncology. During his overseas fellowship, Dr Ahmadi gained expertise in complex minimally invasive urological procedures in cancer and reconstructive urological surgeries.
Dr Menon is a consultant psychiatrist and the lead clinician at Mentalogue Clinic. He specialises in the management of mood and anxiety disorders.
Professor Gordon Parker AO is one of Australia’s foremost Psychiatrists. He is currently Scientia Professor of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and was Executive Director of the Black Dog Institute from 2002-2011. He was, for nearly two decades, Head of the School of Psychiatry at UNSW and Director of the Division of Psychiatry at Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals.Professor Parker’s research has focussed on modeling psychiatric conditions (depressive, bipolar and personality disorders) and examining causes, mechanisms and treatments for mood disorders.Professor Parker is the Clinic’s Peer Review Consultant. During Peer Reviews our team of clinicians have the opportunity to present patients to Professor Parker with a view to reaching a consensus as to the most appropriate diagnosis / treatment. Professor Parker does not see patients individually at the clinic.
Dr Jason Kaplan is a specialist adult cardiologist and physician. He completed cardiology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He subspecialises in Cardiac Imaging( Cardiac CT and Echocardiography), Preventative Cardiology and Sports Cardiology. His hospital work is based at St Vincents Private Hospital. He is also a visiting medical officer at the Mater and North Shore Private Hospital.
Dr Kaplan is currently a senior clinical lecturer in Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University where he was instrumental in the setup of the the structural heart program at that institution.
He is an accredited level B specialist in Cardiac CT and is involved in teaching to other physicians in this area. He is most proud of his training of cardiac sonographers, and in 2019 he was awarded a Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology for his contribution to cardiovascular medicine.
Dr Kaplan has consulted to major sporting organisations in Australian including the NRL and A League.