A/Prof Samantha Hocking is an Endocrinologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and a Clinical Academic at the University of Sydney. A/Prof Hocking’s main research interest is precision medicine exploring how personalised medicine can both predict, prevent and improve the management of metabolic disease, particularly diabetes. In addition, she is working with fellow researchers at The Boden Institute and the CPC-RPA Clinic on projects in obesity, bariatric surgery, metabolic syndrome and diabetes and liver disease.

Dr Rosie King has worked in general practice for 10 years before specialising in sex and relationship counselling. She is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in the Sexual Health Medicine Chapter and has had over 40 years of clinical experience.

Prof Robert Booy is an Infectious Diseases Specialist and Paediatrician and Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney clinical School, Children’s Hospital at Westmead. From 2005-2019, he was the Head of Clinical Research at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) at Westmead, NSW.

Prof Andrew Sindone B. Med (hons), MD, FRACP, FCSANZ, FNHFA is Director of the Heart Failure Unit and Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Concord Hospital and Head of Department of Cardiology at Ryde Hospital. He runs the Concord Hospital Heart Failure Clinic, research, rehabilitation and outreach programs. He has been Principal Investigator in 50 international, multi-centre, clinical trials and authored over 100 articles. He is a Co-Chairman of the NSW Cardiovascular Expert Reference Group, Fellow of the Heart Foundation of Australia and is co-author of the Australian and the Asia Pacific Heart Failure Guidelines.

Richard Stark graduated from Monash University in 1973 and trained at the Alfred Hospital, The London Hospital and the National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, in London.
He was then appointed Visiting Neurologist at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute.
He is an enthusiastic teacher and is Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Monash University and Deputy Head of Unit, Neurology Department, Alfred Hospital.
The headache clinic at the Alfred is now the largest and most active public hospital based clinic in Australia and many young Australian headache specialists have trained at the Alfred.
His major area of clinical interest has been headache, but he is also highly experienced in the neurology of cancer and medico-legal neurology.
He has been involved in many multi-centre trials of migraine treatments and international migraine advisory committees. He has published extensively, including studies on the use of intravenous lignocaine in patients with severe medication overuse headache and recent reviews of migraine management in Australia and in Asia.
He is President of the Australia New Zealand Headache Society and on the Executive of the World Federation of Neurology as Treasurer.

Prof Richard Harvey currently works as a dedicated Rhinologist (nose, sinus, allergy and endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery) at Macquarie University and St Vincent’s Hospitals in Sydney. He is the Program Head of Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery at the Applied Medical Research Center of UNSW and is Professor at both the University of NSW and Macquarie University. After several years of post-training fellowships, including formal fellowships in the USA and UK, Prof Harvey practices in Sydney, Australia, as one of only a few dedicated Rhinologists in the country. He has authored over 300 publications, books, book chapters and completed his PhD in trans-nasal skull base surgery. He has presented over 800 lectures and talks on sino-nasal disease management. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Otolaryngology (www.theajo.com) as well as an Associate Editor for the Cochrane ENT disorders group currently. He contributes to the editorial board for Rhinology Journal, American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy and the International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology and is actively involved in research programs in Sydney. He is the recipient of the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Medal for ‘Distinguished Contribution to the Art and Science of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery’, intended to recognise members who are providing outstanding OHNS services beyond their normal practice activities. Along with training surgeons in both developed and emerging countries, he runs a series of courses with Sydney every year to further rhinologic education and training in Australia.