Clinical Associate Professor Deborah Bateson is Medical Director of Family Planning NSW and Clinical Associate Professor in the Discipline of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology at the University of Sydney. She has worked as a clinician, researcher, educator and advocate in sexual and reproductive health for 20 years and is a past-Chair of the Australasian Sexual Health Alliance. Deborah’s work focuses on contraception and abortion, HPV and cervical screening, and the genital microbiome including the management of bacterial vaginosis (BV). Deborah provides frequent expert commentary to the media on a wide range of women’s health issues.
Professor Catriona Bradshaw [MMBS(Hons), FAChSHM, PhD] is a clinician researcher and Head of Research Translation and Mentorship and Head of The Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma Group at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Central Clinical School, Monash University and Alfred Hospital. Her programme focuses on translational research to improve treatment and control of Mycoplasma genitalium, an STI which has developed resistance to available therapies, and bacterial vaginosis (BV), a common dysbiosis that is refractory to current treatment and associated with adverse reproductive and sexual health outcomes.
Associate Professor Eric Chow is an STI Epidemiologist and Biostatistician based at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. He is currently the Head of the Health Data Management and Biostatistics Unit at MSHC and is an Associate Professor at Central Clinical School, Monash University. He is also an Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of Melbourne. Eric's research interests focus on STI epidemiology and prevention, with a particular focus in kissing, exploring mouthwash as a novel intervention for gonorrhoea and HPV vaccination.
Dr Ian Denham is the visiting Medical Officer at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. His presentation will explore and describe the available treatment options in cases where trichomoniasis persists after treatment.
Associate Professor Lewis Marshall is Head of Service at South Terrace Clinic - Sexual Health, Fremantle Hospital in Perth.
Dr Teena Mathew is a Sexual Health Physician working part-time at MidCentral DHB, Palmerton North, New Zealand. She is a General Internal Medicine registrar and the lead author of the New Zealand Sexual Health Society's (NZSHS) Syphilis in Pregnancy Guidelines. Teena is also the current Secretary for NZSHS.
Associate Professor Louise Stone is a Canberra GP with a clinical, research, teaching and policy interest in mental health and complex trauma. She has been Clinical Lead in two Masters of Psychiatry programs, from Monash University and NSW Health. She is currently a Clinical Associate Professor at the ANU Medical School where she works in the Social Foundations of Medicine Unit. Louise is also leading an international group of authors in writing a book on the sexual abuse of doctors by their colleagues, building on her research in this area.
Dr Alison Ward is a Sexual Health Physician, who has trained and worked in Sexual Health Medicine in Australia, Singapore and the UK. She is currently Head of Unit at the Adelaide Sexual Health Centre.
Professor Deborah Williamson is a Clinical and Public Health Microbiologist, Deputy Director of the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory at the Doherty Institute, and Director of Microbiology at Royal Melbourne Hospital. Her research group at the Doherty Institute focuses on the application of genomic technologies to public health, with a strong focus on sexually-transmitted and antimicrobial-resistant pathogens.