Professor Martin is President-elect of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She is a citizen of both Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and a practising physician, educator and academic healthcare leader. She gained Fellowship in 2001 and continues to train Basic Trainees and Advanced Trainees in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology.   

She has been the Southside Medical Dean at University of Queensland and is the current Chair of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Newcastle. Her more recent leadership roles include the NSW State Secretary for Rhodes Scholars Australia where she has broadened the selection and representation of NSW Rhodes scholars, elected Councillor of the NSW Divisional Council and Corporate Governance Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and elected staff representative of the University of Newcastle Council.  

In July 2022, Dr Sarah Clarke was elected the 122nd President of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Only the fourth female president of the RCP. 

She was previously Clinical Vice President RCP, President of the British Cardiovascular Society and Joint National Lead for cardiology for the Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) program. She is Clinical Director for Strategic Development and an interventional cardiologist at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge.  

Dr Clarke brings a wealth of experience as a senior clinician, educator, leader of change and transformation within organisations and clinical services, and a leader of quality improvement. She has established a network of influence nationally and internationally through her work with NHS England, GIRFT, British Heart Foundation, European Society of Cardiology, and American College of Cardiology (ACC). In 2018 she was awarded the ACC International Service Award. 

Dr Kingdon is President of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (RCPCH). Since 2000, Camilla has been a consultant neonatologist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital with sub-specialty interests in neonatal nutrition, donor milk banking and neurodevelopmental follow up of high- risk neonates.   

Dr Kingdon's involvement in medical education is at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She was Head of the London School of Paediatrics and Child Health for five years giving her unique opportunities to see first- hand the highs and lows of working in paediatrics and all its subspecialties, in a wide range of different clinical settings.  

She has completed an MA in Medical Careers and particularly enjoys supporting doctors with challenging career dilemmas.   

Dr Kingdon’s priorities are to tackle retention issues to sustain a first- class workforce including addressing equality, diversity and inclusion, and to advocate for child health in the context of climate change and wider health inequalities.  

His work on psychological support for healthcare and other key workers has been published widely. He also runs a psychological health consultancy, March on Stress Ltd.  

Professor Greenberg is a consultant academic, occupational and forensic psychiatrist based at King’s College London. Neil served in the United Kingdom Armed Forces for more than 23 years and has deployed, as a psychiatrist and researcher, to several hostile environments including Afghanistan and Iraq. 

Professor Greenberg leads on military mental health projects and is a principal investigator within a Health Protection Research unit. He is a past chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) Special Interest Group in Occupational Psychiatry and led the World Psychiatric Association position statement on mental health in the workplace.  

Professor Greenberg is a trustee with the Society and Faculty of Occupational Medicine and in 2023 he was awarded a prestigious honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He is the President- elect of the UK’s Society of Occupational Medicine.  

Dr Buntsma is a recent New Fellow in General Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine working at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. She has 8 years experience as a trainee representative on RACP committees including as Chair of the College Trainees' Committee and Trainee Board Director. Davina has an ongoing passion and interest in physician training and education.  

Professor Mohamed is a Consultant Hepatologist who has worked tirelessly as an advocate for hepatitis and liver cancer. She was appointed as the Founding Co-chairperson of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for Viral Hepatitis and is currently the Co-chairperson of the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in the Asia Pacific and a member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (STAG-HHS).
She is the Master at the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (AMM), a professional organisation representing various medical specialties in Malaysia, embracing 12 Colleges and 24 Chapters.
Prof Rosmawati serves in various committees of the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) governing specialists recognition and continuous professional development (CPD). She worked closely with the IT vendor to develop the specialist register online application system and database currently being used by a formal Memorandum of Agreement between AMM and MMC.

She also assisted to develop the AMM Medical CPD system for Specialist, one of the three CPD Administrators for MMC.   

Dr Wing is the incoming Chair of the College Trainees' Committee. He is a Basic Trainee and participates in several peak College committees including the College Education Committee and the recently convened Cross-College Examinations Review Advisory Group. He has worked in diverse settings including Darwin, the remote Northern Territory, rural South Australia and Hobart. He has extensive experience in medical industrial relations, having participated in the negotiation of two state and territory agreements. He is passionate about improving the health status of First Australians, including by addressing Australia's workforce maldistribution.  

Dr Debono is the Paediatric Co-Chair of the NSW/ACT Trainees’ Committee at RACP. She has recently attained RACP Fellowship as a paediatric endocrinologist and is nearing completion of general paediatric advanced training. She currently works in western Sydney, and has a strong commitment to the community she grew up in. She has been involved in trainee advocacy from early in her career and will be part of our panel exploring if we are on the right track to shaping future physicians.   

Dr Adair is a Māori Rehabilitation Medicine Physician and Lead Fellow, Māori Health for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She is passionate about supporting, nurturing and serving her Māori whaanau and the community she serves in Spinal Cord Impairment and Amputee Rehabilitation care.   

Professor Banks is a public health physician and epidemiologist. She works mainly on using large-scale evidence to identify actions to improve health and health care, at an individual and population level. Her main areas of work are in chronic disease, tobacco control, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and healthy ageing. She is Head of the Centre of Epidemiology for Policy and Practice at the Australian National University, an NHMRC Investigator Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and a Member of the Order of Australia.  

Dr Beaumont is a consultant occupational physician and former President of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM). He is the author of the award-winning book Positive Medicine: Disrupting the Future of Medical Practice. He widely presents on cutting edge concepts of health, disease and healing.   

Dr Brown is the Executive Director of Health Consumers NSW (HCNSW), the health consumer advocacy peak body in NSW. HCNSW works to increase the participation of health consumers in the design, delivery and governance of health services, health policy, and health and medical research.  

Anthony is an Adjunct Fellow at the School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values (ACHEEV), University of Wollongong.  

Professor Buckmaster is passionate about healthcare improvement through system reform. He has been active in many roles within the College throughout his career, including as a previous Board Director, Chair of College Council and Chair of the Queensland Regional Committee. He is currently chairing the Regional, Rural and Remote Physicians Working Group.  

He has been active in many policy and advocacy working groups and has been president of several health organisations including the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ).  

Dr Charlesworth is a public health physician in Sydney and leads the Climate Risk and Net Zero Unit at NSW Health. Kate initially worked as a hospital doctor in Perth and Sydney, before undertaking much of her public health medicine training in the UK.  

In England, she worked in the world-leading Greener NHS program, the leading healthcare decarbonisation program in the world. Kate has worked in sustainability roles across NSW Health since 2018 and has a PhD in low-carbon healthcare.  

Professor Coiera has worked at the intersection of information technology and healthcare for over three decades. Trained in medicine and with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence, he began his postdoctoral career with 10 years at the prestigious Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol, UK.

He is founding Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University and founding Director of the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI), the longest running biomedical and health informatics academic research group in Australia. Professor Coiera is also founder of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH), formed in 2018, and responsible for the National Policy Roadmap for AI in Healthcare launched in 2023. In 2024 he joined the editorial board of New England Journal of Medicine AI.  

Professor Coiera has been Chief Investigator on multiple NHMRC grants including two Centres of Research Excellence, and currently has over 417 publications, more than 25,600 citations, and an h-index of 79 (Google Scholar). His internationally recognised textbook, ‘Guide to Health Informatics’, is in its third edition. In 2022, Professor Coiera was editor-in-chief for a special issue on climate change and digital health for the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 

Dr Crocker is a medical graduate of the University of Sydney and following his placements at Royal North Shore Hospital and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital in Sydney he undertook work in General Practice. He then further trained to become an occupational and environmental medicine physician. David is also an Approved Medical Specialist for the State Insurance Regulatory Authority undertaking medico-legal assessment and training doctors for the AMA in impairment evaluation.

Dr Crocker holds a number of positions on RACP committees. He is currently on the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) Council and is Chair of the AFOEM NSW/ACT Regional Committee. He is a current member of the Congress Program Committee (CPC) for RACP Congress 2024. 

Dr Cromer is a haematologist and obstetric physician.She works at Royal North Shore Hospital within both the Haematology and Obstetrics Departments. She is also a consultant at Mothersafe at Royal Hospital for Women, advising on medication safety in pregnancy.   

She is currently involved in numerous research projects, including non-invasive prenatal testing of foetal RhD status and fetomaternal haemorrhage testing.  

Dr Cromer is passionate about the convergence of haematology and obstetric medicine and in providing patient-focused, evidence-based care. She has a strong teaching and education focus, is actively involved in mentoring and is the Trainee Representative on the SOMANZ Council. 

Dr Duckett is an Honorary Enterprise Professor in the School of Population and Global Health and in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne. He has held top health sector leadership positions in Australia and Canada and wrote the book The Australian Health Care System.   

Dr Duckett is also an economist, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in January 2023 for significant service to public health policy and management, and to tertiary education. 

Dr Ho is a paediatrician and adolescent physician at the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network. She started Trapeze, the transition to adult care service and also works in the Eating Disorder service at the Children's Hospital at Westmead. She is co-chair of NSW's Agency for Clinical Innovation Transition Care Network.  

Dr Hull is a proud Gamillaraay (Kamilaroi) woman from North West New South Wales. She is also a proud Indigenous Doctor and when she received her FRACP in August 2023, was one of only two paediatricians’ in Australia, and the only Indigenous paediatrician in NSW Health. As a passionate and dedicated paediatrician, she is seeking an opportunity to showcase her skills and experience to enable better health outcomes for young people. Dr Hull prides herself on her ability to provide exemplary patient care in the community and hospital setting. A strong interest in Indigenous and community health has allowed Dr Hull to expand her knowledge and skillset as she strives to better the health care for Indigenous children and families.   

Dr Johnson is a consultant paediatrician in private practice and clinical academic at the University of Sydney. Sandra is a currently a member of RACP Digital Health Advisory Group, is the RACP representative to Australian Institute of Digital Health and was Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) representative on the Australian National Children’s Digital Health Collaborative. Dr Johnson has privately studied AI in healthcare over the past 10 years and she has published peer reviewed articles on AI. She has a textbook on Child Development, and she has written chapters in textbooks on Legal Medicine and Artificial Intelligence for health. She is fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine UK, Fellow of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK, Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Fellow of Australasian College of Legal Medicine and Honorary Fellow of American College of Legal Medicine. She was the President of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine in 2018 and 2019.  

Professor Komesaroff is a physician, medical researcher and philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, where he is Professor of Medicine. He is also Executive Director of the international NGO Global Reconciliation and a former President of Adult Medicine in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).
His work spans a wide range of disciplines, encompassing clinical practice, laboratory, clinical and social science research and ethics. The latter addresses the impact of new technologies on health and society, consent in research, the experience of illness, end of life issues, psychological effects of trauma, impact of artificial intelligence, and cross-cultural teaching and learning. His international work covers reconciliation and healing after conflict and social crisis, the nature and impact of foreign aid, and capacity building in global health.

In addition to the roles mentioned above, Professor Komesaroff is a present or past member or chair of numerous committees in professional societies, institutions and government in Australia and internationally. He is a board member of various NGOs and is a Past President of the Australasian Bioethics Association.
He is the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and Ethics Editor of the Internal Medicine Journal. He is the author of more than 500 articles in science, ethics and philosophy, and author or editor of seventeen books, including Riding a crocodile: a physician’s tale (2014), Experiments in love and death (2014 and 2008), Continent aflame (2020), Pathways to reconciliation (2008), Objectivity, science and society (2nd ed. 2009), and Troubled bodies (1996).   

Dr Barmanry is an endocrinologist and general physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is completing data collection for his PhD focussing on technology-enhanced proactive inpatient diabetes management and improving outcomes, particularly reducing healthcare-associated infection rates. He has a passion for education and has been involved in both teaching and curriculum development in the medical and Scouting fields. His special interest in endocrinology is in the management of type 2 diabetes and realising the promise of modern data analytical and patient-interface technologies.  

Professor Nitin Kapur is a Respiratory and Sleep Paediatrician at the Queensland Children's Hospital. He is also the Director of Paediatric Education (DPE) and the Director of Clinical Training (DCT) at the same hospital. Nitin is the current President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the RACP.   

Professor Kelly is currently the Australian Chief Medical Officer and Head of the Interim Australian Centre for Disease Control at the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. A public health physician and epidemiologist by training, Professor Kelly first joined the Department in March 2019 as the Chief Medical Adviser, Health Products Regulation Group. Prior to these appointments, Professor Kelly spent 8 years as Chief Health Officer for the Australian Capital Territory and Deputy Director-General of Population Health in the ACT Government Health Directorate.  

Professor Kelly has previously worked in research, health systems development, post-graduate teaching and as a health service executive including Director of Australia’s field epidemiology program at the Australian National University (ANU), and in the Northern Territory working as a Principal Research Fellow with the Menzies School of Health Research, as well as with the Centre for Disease Control in the NT Department of Health. Professor Kelly has also worked in Malawi, Indonesia, East Timor and the UK.  

Professor Kelly has over 30 years research experience and has published over 130 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and public health guidelines. He has supervised or mentored many trainees and post-graduate students and delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and conference talks in Australia and internationally.  

Professor Khan is the Director of Rehabilitation at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia. She is Adjunct Professor at the Nossal Institute of Global Health and Vice President of the International Society of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM). Professor Khan was also inducted into the US National Academy of Medicine, and awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for outstanding contribution to rehabilitation medicine and disability in 2022. She sits on the Board of the Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia & New Zealand (RMSANZ).  

She is the Australian Representative at the Asia Oceanian Society of Neurorehabilitation and current elected Vice President of the society. She is an Executive member of various national and international committees including the WHO-ISPRM Liaison Committee, the UN-ISPRM Liaison Committee, the Women’s Health Task Force, the Cancer Rehabilitation Network ISPRM, ISPRM Disaster Rehabilitation Committee and ClinFIT Taskforce, RMSANZ Disaster Rehabilitation-SIG, and others. She is also sub-editor for rehabilitation for the Cochrane Collaboration in Milan; and the section editor for the new 7th Edition of Delisa: Principles of Rehabilitation Medicine.  

Professor Khan has over 20 years of experience in neurological, cancer and trauma rehabilitation. She set up specialised rehabilitation programs for specific conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, stroke, oncology, musculoskeletal injuries and disaster management. She was awarded: the Sydney Licht Award by the ISPRM in 2018, the Haim Ring Award in 2020 for education and capacity-building efforts; and the Joel A. DeLisa Lectureship Award-2021, by the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) USA and many others. These prestigious awards are given in recognition of her significant contributions to the advancement in developing Rehabilitation Medicine and consistent contribution to building evidence-based practices in Rehabilitation (>450 scientific publications), promoting community-based rehabilitation programs and various models for health service delivery, developing measurement and clinical outcome evaluation, innovation in disability-related healthcare, building global capacity in rehabilitation medicine and leading the international task force for developing disaster relief for rehabilitation services.  

Dr McDowell is a paediatrician specialising in child development and behavioural disorders. He was the Foundation President of the Australasian Society for Developmental Paediatrics (formerly NBPSA) and continues to take an active role in this society.   

Dr McDowell is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, and completed his medical and paediatric training in Sydney. He took further training at the Children's Hospital, Boston, USA, where he also competed an MPH at Harvard. He is a Churchill Fellow and has completed a PhD at the University of Queensland. He has recently retired from his Sydney private practice.  

Associate Professor McMahon is an infectious diseases clinician researcher. He is Head of the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit at the Alfred Hospital, President of Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM) and an infectious diseases physician at Monash Medical Centre. His research interests are in clinical trials focused on HIV cure and treatment, on which he will provide an update at Congress.   

Adjunct Professor Rahman is a Pre-Eminent, Senior Staff Specialist, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Past Chair, Queensland Gastroenterology Network, currently employed at Prince Charles Hospital. He is actively involved in national, statewide and local committees that have led to national and state-based Gastroenterology and Hepatology guidelines (Home Affairs/Refugee and Prison Health, CPC, Hepatitis-C fast track pathways (CURE-IT)), facilitating new, innovative and implemented clinical care pathways. 

He runs a research group, with a successful track record in grant applications including NHMRC. He has recieved multiple awards including Australia Day Awards, local, national and international awards for Excellence in Patient Care. Collaborations include, QUT, UQ, Sunshine Coast University and James Cook University. He has authored chapters in books, papers in journals and abstracts at local, national and international meetings.  

Dr Rao is an Advanced Trainee in General Medicine with a passion for patient and clinician focused integration of technology into healthcare. With a broad range of experience as a junior medical officer and later as a medical registrar, Dr Rao has a deep understanding of chronic disease, the needs of complex patients as well as the challenges facing contemporary health care providers.   

This is complemented by technical skills in programming and machine learning, as well as awards and prizes in Quality Improvement and Innovation. Dr Rao is a Clinical Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney, a published author in both national and international peer-reviewed journals and is involved in special interest groups in Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance and the roll out of Digital Health Infrastructure.  

In his spare time, he also enjoys making and breaking technology. Dr Rao is excited to bring this unique perspective to discussions on the future of AI in medicine.  

Dr Bethan Richards is a Staff Specialist Rheumatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and Deputy Director of the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health. In 2019, following her return from Stanford, Bethan had the honour of being appointed Chief Medical Wellness Officer in the Sydney Local Health District – an Australian first. She is also the District’s inaugural MDOK Centre Director.   

Dr Richards has a passion for research, and designing and implementing mentoring, teaching, leadership and wellbeing programs. Following a successful pilot, her MDOK wellbeing program offering over 200 initiatives has been rolled out to over 3000 doctors across the Sydney Local Health District and is now being extended to all 14,000 staff.   

Dr Sweeting is an endocrinologist and clinician researcher in maternal metabolic health at the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. She is the immediate Past President and Chair of ADIPS, a member of the IADPSG Council, and was Chair of the ADA/EASD Precision Medicine in Diabetes Initiative for Gestational Diabetes Diagnosis Working Group.  

Dr Skoss is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Health Research, University of Notre Dame Australia. Informed by her equally important role as primary carer of a young person with intellectual disability, she is a member of the consumer advisory group for the Royal Australian College of Physicians, and a carer representative on the Neuro-psychiatric and Developmental Disability subcommittee of the Mental Health Network.

Dr Skoss holds a Doctorate and Bachelor of Science from the University of Western Australia, and a Masters of Evaluation from the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the interface between the disability sector and mainstream services in health, mental health, and education. She uses a health literacy approach to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of people with intellectual disabilities.

She has been on the WA Disability Services Commission board, as chair of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability, and as a Director for Mosaic Community Care. She has contributed to the national reform of disability funding and services via the National Disability Insurance Scheme, from a governance role during early implementation of the scheme, state-wide consultation with consumers regarding the scheme, and through policy development for the National Disability Insurance Agency.   

After forty years in the NSW Health system as a clinician, public health physician and senior manager, Dr Greg Stewart retired in April 2020 from his position as Director of Primary, Integrated and Community Health for South-Eastern Sydney Local Health District (2011-20).

His career has spanned a full range of management and public health activities in NSW Health, including as Director of the South-Western Sydney Public Health Unit (1990-96), Chief Executive Officer of Wentworth Area Health Service (2000-01), Chief Health Officer of NSW (2001-05) and Director of Population Health, Planning and Performance for Sydney South West Area Health Service (2005-11).

Dr Stewart undertook his medical training at the University of Sydney and graduated in 1979. In 1984, he undertook a Master of Public Health degree, also at the University of Sydney. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (1990) and was President of the Faculty from May 2014 to May 2016.

He serves as Chair of the AFPHM NSW Regional Committee and is the NSW Regional Education Coordinator. He chairs the Faculty Training Committee and serves on the Faculty Education Committee. He served two terms on the RACP Board (2014-2016 and 2020-2021) and until April 2024 was a member of the RACP Ethics Committee.

He was recalled to duty from July to October 2020 and again from July to November 2021 to assist in the NSW Health COVID-19 Public Health Response Branch. There he was a Deputy Public Health Controller and Senior Medical Advisor, working on a range of activities related to prevention and response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Associate Professor Srinivasan is a senior staff specialist paediatric endocrinologist. She is co-director of The Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Clinical Associate Professor in the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Sydney. Professor Srinivasan is an ANZSPED (Australia and New Zealand Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes) Council Member. She co-chairs the Sydney Children's Hospital Differences of Sex Development (DSD) multidisciplinary team meetings and co-chaired the ANZSPED (formerly APEG) DSD subcommittee from 2013 to 2018.   

Professor Taylor is a clinician researcher with more than 25 years of experience in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research. He has been involved in groundbreaking research into the causes of MS and the factors associated with a differential rate of disease progression.

He has expertise in developing and managing large and complex datasets and has led the development and implementation of some of the most important MS research outputs during the last 25 years.

He has also contributed to our current understanding of the genetic architecture of MS which has resulted in multiple high impact papers in journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics, Science and Cell. The AUSLONG study that he leads has been supported through three consecutive NHMRC grants and is one of the world's longest continuous study of early MS, with some participants entering their 21st year on the study. The findings from this study have greatly increased our understanding of the risk factors associated with MS onset and progression.

Overall, he has published over 400 manuscripts with more than 3,3000 citations and received 25 major research grants totaling more than $30M. Prof Taylor has supervised 20 PhD students to completion. He has served on the governing council of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists for the past 6 years and represented neurology on the council of the RACP for 2 years. . 

Professor Talley is currently the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digestive Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia and an NHMRC Leadership 3 Fellow. He is a Senior Staff Specialist at the John Hunter Hospital, Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales and Distinguished Laureate Professor at the University of Newcastle.

He is a highly cited researcher and has a major research interest in low-grade gastrointestinal inflammation, small intestinal immune activation and the microbiome in unexplained GI diseases and disorders of gut-brain interactions.   

Professor Trollor is a neuropsychiatrist and holds the role of inaugural Chair of Intellectual Disability Mental Health at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). He also heads the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) and is a NHMRC Leadership Fellow all at UNSW Sydney. Julian is also acting Director for the Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health, a new initiative in 2023.
Professor Trollor and his 3DN team work to improve health policy, practice and supports for people with an intellectual or developmental disability. The team is involved in teaching, training, health promotion, and the development of educational resources. 3DN conducts research with high translational benefit to the disability and health sectors and provides consultancy of the highest standard, including clinical consultations, advocacy and contributions to policy and legislative reviews. . 

Professor Wyburn is a full-time clinical transplant nephrologist, Head of the Division of Medicine, Deputy Director of Renal Medicine, and Head of Kidney Transplantation at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She is also President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand.