University of Auckland

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Professor Sir Collin Tukuitonga is a Niuean Public Health Medicine Specialist currently Associate Dean Pacific at the University of Auckland Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Co-director for the University of Auckland Research Centre for Pacific and Global Health (Te Poutoko Ora a Kiwa) and Professor of Public Health. Collin is a career public servant with extensive experience in NZ, the Pacific and internationally.

Yale University

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Mona Sharifi, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Yale School of Medicine and an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. She serves as Chief of General Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Health Services and Implementation Research, and Co-director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale. Dr. Sharifi is board-certified in both pediatrics and clinical informatics and practices pediatric primary care at Fair Haven Community Health Center. As a health services and implementation researcher, she studies the implementation of interventions in pediatric primary care and community-based settings to prevent chronic diseases, promote health equity, and improve outcomes, with a focus on childhood obesity prevention and treatment. Her work has been continuously supported by US federal funding since 2010 from AHRQ, NIH, and CDC. She is also a co-author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ 2023 clinical practice guidelines on childhood obesity.

University of Melbourne

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Matthew Watt obtained his PhD from the Deakin University in 2002, completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Guelph (Canada), RMIT University and St. Vincent’s Institute, then established a research team in the Department of Physiology at Monash University where he was supported by continuous National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) fellowships for over a decade. Matt moved to the University of Melbourne in 2018 where he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy and Physiology. He is currently the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. 

Matt’s research vision is to deconvolute complex metabolic and endocrine regulation to facilitate the development of new therapies for obesity-related diseases, including type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cancer. His team works closely with clinical and industry partners, such as CSL and Eli Lilly, to advance the discoveries made in pre-clinical models towards solutions for patients.

Western Sydney University

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Milan Piya is Vice President of ANZOS. He is a clinical academic endocrinologist at the School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, and Head of Department for the Macarthur Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Service (MDEMS) at Campbelltown and Camden Hospitals. Milan is the academic lead for the  Macarthur Clinical Obesity Research Program (MCORP), working across the intersect of physical and mental health in severe obesity. He has a clinical and research interest in severe obesity and related physical and mental health co-morbidities as well as Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and associated health conditions.

University of Sydney

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Louise Baur is Professor of Child & Adolescent Health and an NHMRC Leadership Fellow (L3) at the University of Sydney. She is a consultant paediatrician in Weight Management Services at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. She has made research contributions in many aspects of the treatment and the prevention of child and adolescent obesity and in paediatric nutrition. Louise is Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Translating the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (EPOCH CRE – www.earlychildhoodobesity.com). Louise is President of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences (2023-2026) and Immediate Past-President of the World Obesity Federation (2024-2026). She was a member of the Lancet Commission on Diagnostic Criteria for Clinical Obesity.

The Kids Research Institute Australia

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Professor Hayley Christian AM is a distinguished researcher in child health at The Kids Research Institute Australia and The University of Western Australia. Hayley is Head of Child Physical Activity, Health & Development leading a large multidisciplinary team to improve children’s movement behaviours, health and development through impactful, multi-level interventions spanning the child, family, social, built and natural environment. This includes evidence-informed Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) specific physical activity policy and strategies to increase active play opportunities to support young children’s healthy behaviours and health outcomes.  

Hayley collaborates with multi-sector partner organisations across government, not-for-profit and the private sector nationally and internationally to promote children’s physical activity and health. Her contributions extend globally, with her ECEC policy being adopted by the World Health Organization. Hayley has over 180 publications and received $45 million in research funding.

Child and Adolescent Community Health, Child and Adolescent Health Services

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I am a Senior Accredited Exercise Physiologist with several years’ experience working with not-for-profit therapy providers to prescribe and deliver clinical exercise interventions to children and adults living with neurological and psychosocial disabilities. A year ago, I shifted into a new clinical environment and entered the public health sector where I am now a Senior Exercise Physiologist on the CAHS Healthy Lifestyle Program in Perth, WA. We are a multidisciplinary team who support WA families with making sustainable health behaviour change which is delivered in community-based group education and activity sessions. In this role, I develop and implement all exercise physiology services as part of the program and co-facilitate the group sessions for our families. I am passionate about empowering families to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead healthy, active lifestyles. I look forward to being involved in the ANZOS Annual Scientific Meeting and learning more from some of Australia’s leaders in healthcare.

Child and Adolescent Community Health, Child and Adolescent Health Services

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I’m an Accredited Practising Dietitian with over 11 years of experience working across diverse clinical and community settings throughout Australia. I’m also a qualified Diabetes Educator and a proud Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman. My work has focused on paediatrics, bariatrics, and chronic disease management across hospital, private practice, public health, and telehealth settings. Currently, I coordinate the CAHS Healthy Lifestyle Program in Perth, leading clinical service delivery, strategic planning, and multidisciplinary collaboration. I’m deeply passionate about culturally safe care and improving health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. With a strong foundation in evidence-based practice, I also enjoy mentoring students and early-career professionals. I look forward to contributing to the ANZOS Annual Scientific Meeting and sharing insights on integrated care and health equity in vulnerable communities.

Child and Adolescent Community Health, Child and Adolescent Health Services

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Dr Andrew Martin is a general paediatrician at Perth Children’s Hospital. Andrew has made major contributions to paediatric familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) within Australia and led the publication of the first national guidelines for paediatric FH in 2012. In recent years he has focussed his efforts on developing better approaches to detect FH in children, specifically innovative models of population screening in early childhood. He leads the “FH in Kids” study, an enhanced program for improving the care of children with FH in WA and from 2026 will lead the WA Paediatric Centre for High Impact Lipid Disorders.

Andrew believes that all of us caring for children have a responsibility to ensure we are actively protecting their long-term cardiovascular health. We need to create a paradigm shift, from treating established coronary artery disease in adults, to proactively safeguarding the heart health of children, starting in childhood.

Western Australian Gynae & Surgery

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Stuart Salfinger is a Certified Gynaecologic Oncologist. He is Past President of the Australasian Gynaecologic Endoscopy and Surgery Society and past executive Board member of the Australian Society of Gynaecologic Oncologists. He is a College examiner for the RANZCOG Gynaecologic Oncology subspecialty exams.

He has over 60 peer review publications and has given over 150 presentations at national and international meetings. He also serves as a committee member on the NHMRC MRFF Grant Assessment Committee.

Stuart’s particular clinical interest is in Gynaecologic Cancer Surgery and complex laparoscopic surgery. He specialises in this area with a particular emphasis in the laparoscopic management of gynaecologic cancers.

Child and Adolescent Community Health, Child and Adolescent Health Services

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Chelsea Sharp is a Dietitian with years of clinical experience in the Western Australian regional and very remote settings. The family-centred and community lead model of the Healthy Lifestyle Program brought Chelsea to the Metropolitan Health Service contributing towards planning, developing, and delivering an efficient Program empowering individuals with the skills and knowledge to shape their health journey in the role of a Coordinator of Dietetics and Clinical Dietitian. Interests include remodelling healthcare systems, planning and developing programs, empowerment and self-efficacy within the healthcare system and collaborating with consumers to support culturally safe healthcare services and interactions.

Edith Cowan University

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Gina Trapp is a Professor of Food and Nutrition Environments within the Nutrition & Health Innovation Research Institute at Edith Cowan University. She is also a Stan Perron People Fellow, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute and a Registered Public Health Nutritionist recognised by the Nutrition Society of Australia. Gina was also a former ARC DECRA Fellow and NHMRC ECR Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She currently leads the Food Environments Team (29 research staff and students) at Edith Cowan University where she drives an innovative, multidisciplinary, award-winning research program investigating environmental-level influences on children’s dietary intake to help redress the nation's obesity epidemic (41 awards/prizes). The findings are being used to help create health-promoting communities that empower children and families to make better nutritional choices.

University of Sydney

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Kathryn is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and the Clinical Lead and Manager for the Nepean Family Metabolic Health Service, a tertiary, public, whole of lifespan obesity service in the Nepean-Blue Mountains Local Health District. She is a staff specialist in endocrinology at Nepean Hospital.

Kathryn completed her medical training in 2001 at the University of New South Wales and has also completed a PhD in 2016, examining the relationship between type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. She has a strong interest in diabetes and metabolic health. She also has an interest in the health of aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples, previously working at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern from 2015-2016. She has been the Unit of Study Coordinator for the Diabetes Management and Advanced Diabetes Management units of study for the Metabolic Health Postgraduate Program from 2014-2016.

University of Western Australia

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Bu Yeap (MBBS, FRACP, PhD) is Professor, Medical School, University of Western Australia and consultant endocrinologist, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. He has longstanding interests in the area of androgens and health during male ageing, and the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic diseases. He leads the Androgens In Men Study, an international collaboration of cohort studies examining testosterone and men’s health outcomes, and has conducted investigator-initiated clinical trials to prevent type 2 diabetes and improve fitness and body composition in men. He currently co-leads an investigator-initiated trial of resistance exercise on a background of tirzepatide treatment for obesity. Bu was President of the Endocrine Society of Australia in 2020-22. He was the South Metro Health Service Researcher of the Year in 2021, and was Claude D. Pepper Visiting Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 2023. He has >300 publications including >250 original research articles, with 10,000 citations (Scopus).

Whānau Pakari

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NZ trained and registered dietitian of >25yrs. Currently working 3 days a week as the Healthy lifestyles coordinator for Whānau Pakari healthy lifestyles programme since inception.

The remaining 2 days per week I work in private practice nutrition/dietetics and support ACC clients with their nutrition/lifestyle.  I live in Taranaki, beneath the maunga, with my husband, daughter and son.  Outside of work I enjoy adventure racing, surfing, mountain biking, snow sports and coffee.

Whānau Pakari

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Having completed my MSc Dietetics at King’s College London I started my Dietetic practice in Lewisham & Greenwich NHS in London where I worked predominantly in the gastro and respiratory wards before moving to New Zealand. In Taranaki I joined the Whānau Pakari team as the community dietitian and have loved my 8+ years with the service where I have also been involved in research and worked as the Healthy Lifestyle Coordinator for 2 years. I also am very passionate about diabetes care, volunteering with Type 1 Diabetes Taranaki for 6 years. Outside of work I live a wonderful life under our beautiful maunga Mount Taranaki where I enjoy outdoor adventures with my husband, our 5 year old girl and 1 year old boy.

Whānau Pakari

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New Zealand trained and qualified Personal Trainer. I work 3 days a week for Whanau Pakari as their Physical Activity Advisor and have been with the programme for 5 years. Having three kids of my own and with my background in PT, sport coaching and group fitness, I love to motivate and get kids excited about movement. Outside of work I enjoy road cycling, Mountain Biking and adventures with my family. 

Perth Children’s Hospital

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Dr Larkins is paediatric nephrologist at Perth Children’s Hospital and Senior Research Fellow at the ECU Nutrition & Health Innovation Research Institute. He is an active researcher whose PhD studied hypertension and albuminuria among Australian Children. His current research includes efforts to better define and identify hypertension among children, along with a focus on early-life risk factors among Australian Aboriginal children. Dr Larkins is the Chair of the Clinical Advisory Panel for the BPOzKids Network creating the first Australian Guideline for the Investigation and Management of Hypertension in Children collaborating with diverse interdisciplinary healthcare professionals and consumers to fill an important gap and promote a lifecourse approach to blood pressure and cardiovascular risk.

University of Western Australia

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