Professor John Bateman
Director of the Musculoskeletal Disorders Theme at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, and NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow(2004); Past-President of the International Society for Matrix Biology, his research on the molecular genetics of inherited bone and cartilage is internationally recognised and has provided important insights into disease mechanisms. His other research interests include the mechanisms of osteoarthritis initiation and progression, and the biology of cartilage and bone development.
Professor Norbert Berend
Director of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Sydney, formerly Executive Director of the Royal North Shore Hospital (1998-2000); leading researcher in respiratory physiology and clinical aspects of respiratory and sleep disorders; awarded the Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Medal and the Laennec Medal from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, currently holds positions in the American Thoracic Society and the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
Professor Bruce Brew
Professor of Medicine (Neurology) University of New South Wales, and Head Department of Neurology at St Vincent’s Hospital; expert in neurovirology and neuroimmunology; presented lectures for the American Academy of Neurology syllabus and World Congress in Neurology, Sydney (2005); board director of the International Society for Neurovirology, awarded several international grants including from the National Institutes of Health USA and have acted as a grant reviewer for national research bodies in the USA and the UK; awarded Sir Richard Stawell Prize – Medical Journal of Australia (2008).
Scientia Professor Richard Bryant
ARC Professorial Fellow, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales is a recognised leader on posttraumatic stress disorder; awarded Australian Society of Psychiatric Research Founders Medal (2007), Australian Psychological Society Distinguished Science Award (2009), and the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies Laufer Award (2001). Currently advisor to the American Psychiatric Association DSM-V Trauma Related Disorders Working Group, and to the US Department of Defense PTSD-TBI Consortium.
Professor Julie Byles
Director of the Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing – a Priority Research Centre at the University of Newcastle, and co-Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health; a clinical epidemiologist, and gerontologist, with interests in health services for older people, and in determining physical, psychological and social factors associated with optimal physical and mental health of men and women as they age.
Professor Mac Christie
Director of Neuropharmacology and Professor, Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney; previously Director (Basic Research), Pain Management Research Institute, Royal North Shore; Hospital; internationally recognised neuroscientist/ neuropharmacologist determining molecular, cellular, synaptic and behavioural mechanisms of opioid addiction and persistent pain states; Chair, Scientific Advisory Board for Addiction Neuroscience, Australia (ANNA); scientific referee for Medical Research Council (UK) and National Science Foundation (USA) since 2004; NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (2008).
Professor Judith Clements
Program Leader, Hormone Dependent Cancer Program, Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology & Co-Director, National Prostate Cancer Research Centre–Queensland; expert in the broad field of cancer cell and molecular biology; NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (2006); Chair of the Australian Prostate Cancer Collaboration Bioresource; Member of Queensland Institute of Medical Research Council; Queensland Board member, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia; awarded the Frey-Werle Silver and Gold medals (2000 & 2007) for pioneering work in Kallikrein field and Alban Gee Prize Urological Society of Australasia (1998 & 2005).
Professor Ross Coppel
Professor of Microbiology at Monash University and Director of the Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, internationally recognised scientist for his work in the fields of malaria and primary biliary cirrhosis; recipient of the Glaxo Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases; a former Howard Hughes Medical Medical Institute International Fellow in Infectious Diseases, currently Chair of the ANZ Trustees Scientific Panel to advise on their allocation of biomedical grants.
Professor Tony Cunningham
Director, Westmead Millennium Institute and Research Centres at Westmead Hospital and the Centre for Virus Research; Director, Research Network for the Sydney West Area Health Service; Director, Australian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research; and Professor of Research Medicine and Sub-Dean (Research) Western Clinical School, University of Sydney; research interests focus on viral medicine, especially basic biology, pathogenesis, seroepidemiology, diagnosis and anti-viral treatment of HIV, herpes virus infections; member of several State, Commonwealth and Industry Committees.
Professor Timothy Davis
Professor of Medicine, University of Western Australia, a general physician, tropical medicine specialist and diabetologist at Fremantle Hospital; clinical and epidemiological research interests in diabetes and malaria; member of NHMRC Council and Research Committee, Australian Diabetes Society, the American Diabetes Association, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and American Society for Microbiology; serves on the Editorial Board of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and the Scientific Committee and Board of the Busselton Health Study; served on the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council, the Board of the National Institute of Clinical Studies; NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (2008).
Professor Nicholas de Klerk
Head of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Adjunct Professor at the School of Population Health University of Western Australia; previously Occupational Respiratory Epidemiology Group, Department of Public Health at the University of Western Australia, internationally recognised biostatistician and epidemiologist particularly in the cancer and respiratory areas; published widely on occupational respiratory disease, cancer epidemiology and child health.
Professor Annette Dobson
Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland; Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health; internationally recognised for work on longitudinal studies, biostatistics, epidemiology and social determinants of health; the rapporteur for the MONICA (to MONItor trends and determinants of Cardiovascular disease) Steering Committee; member of the Advisory Committee for the National CVD Monitoring Unit at AIHW; awarded the Sidney Sax Public Health Medal (2003), Inaugral Population Health Congress Oration (2008).
Professor Peter Ebeling
Head, Department of Medicine (RMH/WH), University of Melbourne; Head, Department of Endocrinology, Western Health, Footscray; Medical Director, Osteoporosis Australia (2006-); internationally recognised endocrinologist; research interests include osteoporosis and public health issues related to vitamin D deficiency; Councillor, Endocrine Society of Australia (2005-); Past President, Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society; Associate Editor, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (2008-).
Professor Dallas English
Director of the Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology University of Melbourne; co-investigator on the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS), an appointment at the Cancer Council; a leading epidemiologist whose recent research has focused on breast cancer, colorectal cancer and prostate cancer within the MCCS, and in evaluating cancer screening programs; member of the Boards of BreastScreen Victoria and the Victorian Cytology Service;.
Professor Jonathan Golledge
Head of the Vascular Biology Unit (VBU) at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University; director of Vascular Surgery, The Townsville Hospital; internationally recognised in vascular surgery; Chairman of the Vascular Research group for the Australian and New Zealand Society of Vascular Surgery; awarded the John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship (2007); member of the board for Surgical Research of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (2007).
Professor Jane Hall
Professor of Health Economics in the Faculty of Business, University of Technology Sydney; a health economist involved in health policy and planning issues both in Australia and internationally; research interests include the valuation of health and health care benefits, and social welfare measurement; founding Director of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation; past President of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand and the International Health Economics Association.
Professor Glenda Halliday
Professor of Neuroscience University of New South Wales and Head of Ageing and Neurodegeneration Research Programme at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute; leading researcher in neuroscience and neurology; NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (2005); President Australian Neuroscience Society (2006-2007) and Past President Australian Neuroscience Society (2008); Governing Council Member International Brain Research Organisation (2006-2008), member Scientific Advisory Committee Parkinson’s NSW (2001-).
Professor John Hopwood
Head, Lysosomal Disease Research Unit, SA Pathology, Women and Children’s Hospital Campus; international leader in field of lysosomal storage disorders, their diagnosis and treatment; established and chair of the Global Organisation of Lysosomal Diseases (GOLD); recipient of the 2008 South Australian of the Year; Life for MPS Award (2008); South Australian Scientist of the Year (2008); Premiers Science Award for Excellence in Commercialisation of Research (2006); Lemberg Medal (2003) and Howard Florey Centenary Award (1998).
Professor Timothy Hughes
Head of the Department of Haematology in SA Pathology, Royal Adelaide Hospital site and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide; internationally recognised in the field of leukaemia biology and drug resistance; awarded the Eric Susman Prize for 2006 for the most outstanding contribution to the knowledge of any branch of internal medicine by a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians; NHMRC Practitioner Fellow (2008).
Professor Rick Kefford
Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney; Director of the Westmead Institute for Cancer Research at Westmead; Millennium Institute; Director of Clinical Research Melanoma Institute of Australia incorporating Sydney Melanoma Unit; Consultant Medical; Oncologist NSW Breast Cancer Institute; major clinical interests are the medical management of advanced breast cancer and melanoma; member of the Medical Oncology; Group of Australia Ethics Committee and the Expert Advisory Committee for the National Breast Cancer Centre.
Professor Andrew Lloyd
Professor School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales and Clinical Academic, Department of Infectious Diseases at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, and Visiting Medical Officer Justice Health NSW; internationally recognised as a clinician-scientist in the field of infectious diseases with wide research experience in immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, genetics and therapeutics; leads the Immunovirology Research Network (IVRN), honoured with an Australian Medal for the provision of specialist hepatitis services in prisons and for research in the field of infectious diseases; NHMRC Practitioner Fellow (2008).
Professor John Lynch
Research Chair (Epidemiology and Population health) at the University of South Australia; research interests include early life determinants of health, population health monitoring and improving the public health research-policy nexus; extensive international research experience in population health; served on international advisory and review boards including the WHO, European Science Foundation, NIH, Wellcome Trust, CIHR and the UK Medical Research Council; Australia Fellowship (2009).
Professor Thomas Marwick
Professor of Medicine, University of Queensland and Director of Echocardiography, Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane; expert in clinical research in cardiovascular disease; awarded the RT Hall Prize from the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (2006), the Eccles Award, Feigenbaum lecture of the American Society of Echocardiography (2003), Euroecho lecture of the European Association of Echocardiography (2004); Chair of Research Committee of the National Health Foundation (2003-2006).
Professor Paul Pilowsky
Foundation Professor of Medicine Physiology, and Deputy Dean at the Australian School of Advanced Medicine at Macquarie University; a leading neuroscientist with a broad knowledge of autonomic neuroscience, cardiovascular and respiratory regulation and motor control; Fellow – Council of High Blood Pressure Research (USA); member of several editorial boards including the American Journal of Physiology, and Hypertension, 7 year tenure as Editor and Chair of the Program Committee of the Australian Society for Neuroscience; NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (2002).
Professor Gail Risbridger
Director, Centre for Urological Research and Associate Dean, Research Centres and Institutes, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University; internationally recognised researcher in Endocrinology and Cancer Biology; a Fulbright Senior Scholar; recipient of a British Endocrine Society Asia-Oceania Medal, Academy of Science Fellowship, Kings College/Monash Fellowship and Monash Silver Jubilee Prize for prostate cancer research; NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (2006); Honorary Life Member of the Endocrine Society of Australia.
Professor Ray Rodgers
University of Adelaide; NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (2005); internationally recognised for discoveries of the cellular and molecular biology of the ovary; Editor of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology; Director of biotechnology company Tacnia Pty Ltd and Chairman of Adelaide Integrated Bioscience Laboratories; Former Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, BBSRC Underwood Fellow and President of the Endocrine Society of Australia.
Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld
Professor of Medical Physics and Director, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics at the University of Wollongong; expert in medical physics and medical devices ; member of the Prostate Cancer Institute, International Scientific Advisory Committees on Solid State Dosimetry (SSD) and Microdosimetry, IEEE (medical radiation instrumentation and Hadron Therapy), American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) and Australian Brachytherapy Group (ABG); Panelist on the Radiation Risk Assessment in Space Environment Panel at the International Space Medicine Summit at NSBRI, Houston USA, 2008.
Professor Tania Sorrell
Professor of Clinical Infectious Diseases and Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, the University of Sydney at Westmead; Director Infectious Diseases, Sydney West Area Health Service; established Infectious Diseases as a discipline of Internal Medicine in Australia; internationally known for research into pathogenesis of fungal diseases and their treatment; past president, Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases; Corresponding Fellow by invitation, Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Professor Emma Whitelaw
Head of the Epigenetics Laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research; outstanding record in molecular genetics with landmark publications that have fundamentally changed and fashioned thinking in this field; awarded the Ralph Doherty Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Medical Research (2008), Julian Wells Medal for Outstanding contribution to genetics (2008 – awarded by the Genome Conference), Barbara Ell Medal for the pursuit of excellence in research, awarded by the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (2007); NHMRC Australia Fellowship (2009).
Professor Keryn Williams
Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Health Sciences and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (2006) Department of Ophthalmology at Flinders University; research interests include corneal transplantation, ocular inflammation, ocular immunology, gene therapy and eye banking; member of the Viertel Foundation Medical Advisory Board and the South Australian Eye Bank Advisory Committee.