Dr Chris Wever (MBBS, FRANZCP) is a child, adolescent and family psychiatrist. He currently works in private practice in Sydney and the Gold Coast. He has been in Private Practice for the last eight years.
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Owen Ung is a breast and endocrine surgeon. After graduating from Queensland University, he worked in rural and metropolitan hospitals throughout the state then completed his advanced surgical training at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. From there he undertook a fellowship at Westmead Hospital in New South Wales, then at the University Of Wales College Of Medicine in the United Kingdom as a lecturer in surgery. From 1995 to 2008 he has was a consultant surgeon at Westmead, a major Sydney teaching hospital, where he headed the Breast and Endocrine surgical unit and was Director of the department of general surgery.
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Julie Owens is Professor and Head of the School of Paediatrics and Reproductive Health, University of Adelaide. She is also Director, Research Centre for Early life Origins of Adult Disease, University of Adelaide.
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Dr Nicklin is a graduate of the University of Queensland. He did his internship and residency at the Royal Brisbane and Royal Women’s Hospitals. He subsequently went on to do specialty training in obstetrics and gynaecology in Queensland. He then did his sub-specialty training in gynaecologic oncology at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney and the Ohio State University, USA. He returned to Queensland and set up practice as a gynaecologic oncologist in late 1995. He is currently a VMO and Director of Gynaecologic Oncology at RBWH, Qld and conducts his private practice based at the Wesley Hospital, Brisbane.

Executive Director, Brain & Mind Research Institute (BMRI), University of Sydney

In October 2006, the Australian Financial Review included Professor Hickie (AM, MD, FRANZCP, FASSA) in its list of the top 10 cultural influences. The specific comments noted his role as a “long-term campaigner”, “the person who orchestrated the campaign” that led to the COAG announcements ($4 billion dollars over five years. In October 2000 he was appointed as the inaugural CEO of beyondblue: the national depression initiative and from 2003-06 served as its Clinical Advisor. In 2003, he was appointed as the inaugural executive director of the flagship Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney.
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Dr Michael Gattas (MB BS, FRACP) is a Consultant Clinical Geneticist with the Genetics Health Queensland, and works in private practice as a Clinical Geneticist. He has been responsible in Genetic Health Qld for much of the advice given to patients referred because of their family history of cancer. In addition to clinical consultation he is a Consultant in Clinical Genetics with Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology.
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Elizabeth Elliott is Professor in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney. She is Founder and Director of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, a national research group with a focus on rare diseases of childhood. She is also Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Paediatrics, Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Sydney and currently holds an NH&MRC Practitioner Fellowship.
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Fran Boyle (AM MBBS (QLD) FRACP PhD) is a Medical Oncologist at North Sydney’s Mater Hospital, where she is Director of the Patricia Ritchie Centre for Cancer Care and Research, and Associate Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Sydney. She was honoured with Membership of the Order of Australia in 2008 for services to breast cancer research, advocacy, policy development and education. As Medical Director of the Pam McLean Cancer Communications Centre at the University of Sydney, she has been engaged in research and training to improve communication between health professionals and patients, and coaches cancer teams across Australia and New Zealand.
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