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	Moyez Jiwa Professor Moyez Jiwa is the Editor in chief and Professor of Health Innovation at Curtin University of Technology. He is a practicing general practitioner in Perth, Western Australia. Here is a link to his bio: http://www.phcris.org.au/roar/profiles.php?elibid=5150
	Ian Frazer Professor Ian Frazer chairs the medical and scientific advisory committee of the Queensland Cancer Fund, and advises the WHO and the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation on papillomavirus vaccines. Prof Frazer teaches immunology to undergraduate and graduate students of the University.
	Prof. B. M Hedge Former Vice Chancellor, Manipal University, Manipal, India. Affiliate Professor of Human Health, University of Northern Colorado. Member, Postgraduate Medical Education Board, Govt. of India. Editor in Chief, Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes, Mangalore and Penn State University, USA. In 2010 awarded Padma Bhushan , one of the top Civilian awards by Govt. of India 2010. Website: http://www.bmhegde.com
	Nicholas A. Christakis Dr. Christakis is an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He is a Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and an Attending Physician (with an emphasis on palliative medicine) in the Department of Medicine at the Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	Professor Wei Wang MD, PhD Research interest: Genetic epidemiology, Primary care Dean/ Professor, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China. Professor, Department of Biology, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100054, China.
	Chris Loftus Prof. Loftus has an active interest in neurosurgical education and publication matters. He has served on the editorial boards of Clinical Neurosurgery, The Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease, and Neurosurgery. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Techniques in Neurosurgery. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurosurgery from 1993-1996 and currently serves on both the AANS and CNS publications committees. Dr. Loftus is a member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery and has served both on the Executive Council and as Secretary-Treasurer and then Chair of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery. Website: http://www.societyns.org/society/bio.aspx?MemberID=7237
	Yehuda Shoenfeld Dr Yehuda Shoenfeld is the head of the Department of Medicine at the largest hospital in Israel- the Sheba Medical Center, which is affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel-Aviv University. Dr. Shoenfeld holds the Chair for Research of Autoimmune Diseases in Tel-Aviv University. His clinical and scientific work focuses on autoimmune /rheumatic diseases, and includes an output of 1450 academic papers to date. In 2005 Dr. Shoenfeld received the EULAR prize in Vienna, Austria. In 2006 he was awarded a gold medal from the Slovak Society of Physicians for his contribution to Israel – Slovakia collaboration. In 2008 Dr. Shoenfeld was the recipient of the Nelson's Prize for Humanity and Science, in the US.
	Goh Lee Gan Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore Head, Division of Family Medicine, National University Health System Interests: Improving health through social development; Professionalism, ethics, and law in clinical practice, teaching, and research; Current clinical issues, medical education, and health services research.
	Christobel Saunders Professor Christobel Saunders is responsible for conducting a large number of clinical research projects in cancer, and is one of the prime teachers of surgery to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Western Australia.
	Geoff Mitchell Dr Geoff. Mitchell PhD MBBS, FRACGP, FAChPM, is Associate Professor in General Practice, and PHC RED Senior Research Fellow with the University of Queensland’s Discipline of General Practice. His main research interest is in the role of General Practitioners in palliative care and cancer in general, and the care of complex conditions in general practice. Has published extensively in these areas, and edited a book entitled Palliative care: a patient centered approach in January 2008. He maintains a clinical practice in Ipswich, Queensland.
	Alexandra McManus Associate Professor Alexandra McManus is Director of the Centre of Excellence for Science Seafood and Health (CoESSH) housed within Curtin University and an adjunct Senior Research Fellow to the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control. Alexandra has extensive experience in project management and intervention research and won Awards for Excellence in Research and Teaching (x2) and was the recipient of an NHMRC Public Health Doctoral scholarship.
	Ian Olver Professor Ian Olver (MD PhD CMin FRACP, FAchPM, MRACMA) is the Cancer Council Professor of Cancer Care, University of Adelaide and Clinical Director, Royal Adelaide Hospital Cancer Centre.He graduated from the University of Melbourne where he later completed an MD. His PhD was in bioethics at Monash University.His oncological training was at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, the Alfred Hospital and the University of Maryland Cancer Centre. Professor Olver is current chair of the Medical Onocology Group of Australia and is a board member of the National Breast Cancer Centre.
	Paul Ward Paul Ward is Associate Professor of Public Health Research in the Department of Public Health at Flinders University. Paul is a social scientist with a background in medical sociology, geography and health services research. In terms of teaching, Paul’s main areas are medical sociology, theoretical and methodological foundations of research, and both qualitative and quantitative research methods and analysis. Paul’s main research interests are around socio-spatial inequalities and inequities in health, medicine usage and the provision of health and social care. Paul also has a particular interest in research around lay and professional perceptions, knowledge and understandings of health, healthcare, medicines, risk and trust.
	Mike Campbell Professor Mike Campbell has a BA in Mathematics from York University an MSc in Probability and Statistics from Sheffield University and a PhD in Medical Statistics from Edinburgh University, UK. He previously worked in the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit in Cardiff and at the University of Southampton, where he was head of the Medical Statistics and Computing Group. He came to Sheffield in 1997 and joined HSR Section at the School for Health and Realted Research in 2005.
	Owen Carter Dr. Owen Carter is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Behavioural Cancer Control at curtin University of Technology. He holds Bachelor of Psychology and Bachelor of Arts (Ancient History) degrees from The University of Western Australia and a Doctor of Psychology degree from Murdoch University.
	Sue Bates Sue relocated from the UK to Canada at the end of June 2007 to take up the position of Director of Patient Navigation, with CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This is an exciting new position, establishing a team, designing and implementing a program to develop patient access, improve the cancer journey to be patient centered and staff focussed. Sue has 26 ½ years experience in the UK NHS, working as a nurse for 14 years then moving to a variety of managerial roles within the ambulatory care setting.
	Gareth Merriman Gareth has extensive experience in supervision and training of professionals in providing sexuality therapy. He is the immediate past President of the Australian Society of Sexuality Educators Researchers and Therapists and the WA Sexology Society. He is Director of the Sexuality and Relationship Therapy Centre, a private practice business.
	Tim Usherwood Tim Usherwood BSc MD BS FRACGP FRCGP FRCP FAICD is Professor of General Practice at the University of Sydney, Chair of WentWest regional general practice training provider and a general practitioner at Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney. He serves on the editorial boards of the Medical Journal of Australia, Australian Prescriber and Medicine Today. His interests include chronic disease prevention and management in general practice, educational research and mixed-methods health service research.
	Garry Allison Dr Garry T Allison, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Trauma Physiotherapy, has a joint appointment at Royal Perth Hospital Physiotherapy Department and the School of Physiotherapy Curtin University. Dr Allison is widely published with work on rehabilitation systems in the community with elite sporting organizations as well as secondary (hospital) and primary health care service delivery. His current research covers mechanisms of tendonopathy and motor control in elite athletes (Australian Institute of Sport research fellowship) and individuals with spinal pain syndromes. He is also undertaking clinical trials in systems change within Neurological Rehabilitation services in the Hospital setting.
	George Jelinek George Jelinek lives and works in Victoria and Western Australia. He has Professorial appointments in Emergency Medicine at the University of Western Australia, in Medicine at the University of Melbourne, and in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. George won the Prize in the first Fellowship Examination of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) in 1986, was President of Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine (ASEM) in 1990/91, Vice-President of ACEM in 1996/97, Founding Editor of the MEDLINE-indexed journal Emergency Medicine Australasia in 1989, a College examiner from 1989-2004, was awarded the ACEM Medal in 2003 recognising his work in the development of academic emergency medicine in Australasia.
	Barbara Horner Dean of Research & Graduate Studies Faculty of Health Sciences and Director, Centre for Research on Ageing Curtin University of Technology. Barbara commenced her appointment as Dean R&GS in 2008 and provides leadership and strategic direction for research and graduate studies across the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University of Technology. Since 2000, Barbara has established and led a multidisciplinary research team, the Centre for Research on Ageing, with a focus on the implications of an ageing population within three primary research themes – aged care services, health in ageing and dementia.
	Stephan Millett PhD, BA(Hons), BEcon, MACE Associate Professor Stephan Millett is foundation Director of the Curtin University Centre for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee and Adviser on Research Integrity for the University. He holds a PhD in Moral Philosophy. Stephan is known internationally particularly for his work on philosophy and ethics in schools. In recent years he has increasingly specialised in research ethics, and ethics and values for large organisations.
	Georgia Halkett Dr Georgia Halkett is a radiation therapist who in actively involved in research. She is currently a National Breast Cancer Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the WA Centre for Cancer and Palliative Care, Curtin University of Technology. Georgia’s program of research focuses on cancer patient’s psychosocial and information needs, communication between health professionals and cancer patients and research in radiation therapy.
	Andrea Madarasova Geckova Dr. Andrea Madarasova Geckova (1972) received her Master's degree in psychology from P.J.Safarik University in Kosice, Slovak Republic, and her PhD degree in medical sciences from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. (http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/medicine/2002/a.geckova/). Her research is at the interface between public health, epidemiology, health psychology and medical sociology. Since 1997 she has been research active under the umbrella of the Central European Network. Her research focuses on inequalities in health among (Slovak) adolescents and young adults.
	Jeff Hughes Jeff Hughes is a Professor at the School of Pharmacy, Curtin University of Technology. Jeff is recognized as a leader in clinical pharmacy education and practice in Australia. He was the recipient of the 1998 Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia’s Glaxo Medal of Merit and 2001 received SPHA’s Clinical Pharmacy award. Further, in 2004 his efforts in the areas of clinical pharmacy education and pharmacy research were acknowledged when he was named the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Pharmacist of the Year. In 2008, Jeff was the recipient of the Eric Kirk Memorial Award presented for his contribution to the Pharmacy profession in Western Australia. Jeff is a community pharmacy proprietor and a practising accredited pharmacist.
	Devesh V Oberoi Student ambassador Graduated in 2008 from KMC Mangalore, Manipal University, India. He has been research active since his undergraduate days, with special interest in the field of chaos science and diabetes, infectious diseases and chronobiology.He has twice been a recipient of the Indian Council of Medical Research sponsored short term research studentship and has been a summer research fellow at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced scientific Research, Bangalore, India. Dr. Oberoi was the first undergraduate to present a paper in the National conference of the Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine, Dehradun 2005. Invited speaker at the First National Medical Students Research Conference, Pune, 2006.
	Igor Sulla Igor Sulla, MD, DSc (1945) is a Profesor at the Department of Neurosurgery, P. J. Safarik University, Faculty of Medicine, Kosice, Slovakia. His scientific interests focuses on hereditary defects of the CNS, spinal cord ischemia, brain and spinal cord trauma, intervertebral disc disease, and cauda equine syndrome. He is a member of the Slovak Neurosurgical Society, the Central European Neurosurgical Society, International member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the Slovak delegate to the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
	Ruzena Tkacova Professor Ruzena Tkacova, MD, PhD, is the Professor of Medicine at the Medical Faculty, P.J. Safarik University and L. Pasteur Teaching Hospital in Kosice, Slovakia. She graduated from the P. J. Safarik University in 1984, and was trained for five years at the Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada as a post-doctoral clinical research fellow. Presently she is the Chief of the Department of Respiratory Disorders and Tuberculosis. She has authored/(co)authored more than 90 papers and book chapters in respiratory medicine, that have been quoted in SCI more than 550-times.
	Jaroslav Rosenberger Jaroslav Rosenberger graduated in medicine in 1999 from the P.J. Safarik University, Slovakia. He works at Transplantation Department of the Faculty Hospital L. Pasteur Kosice, Nephrology and Dialysis Center Fresenius Kosice and at the Internal Clinic at the faculty of Medicine, P. J. Safarik University. He supervises research on chronic diseases.
	Ivica Lazúrová Professor Ivica Lazúrová, MD, PhD is the Professor of Internal Medicine at the Medical Faculty, P.J.Safarik University Košice, Slovakia. Currently she is the Head of the 1st Department of Internal Medicine, president of the Slovak Endocrine Society and vicepresident of the Slovak Society of Internal Medicine. Her scientific interest focuses on endocrinology, particularly on adrenal gland disorders and infertility. She is author/coauthor of more than 100 papers and book chapters in internal medicine and endocrinology.
	Zhonghua Sun Dr Zhonghua Sun has been previously trained as a radiologist in China, and he is currently a senior lecturer in medical imaging at Curtin University of Technology. His research interests are in the area of medical image processing and visualization, radiation dose and image quality, 3D image visualization and assessment of cardiovascular disease, stereoscopic imaging, virtual reality and haemodynamic analysis of endovascular stent grafts.
	Christopher Kueh Christopher is a practicing information and graphic designer. He has consulted museums, city council, library, and university on wayfinding design in Australia and Malaysia. His PhD thesis was titled A user-centred approach to effective wayfinding map design: Integrating theory, practice and user participation. He developed a framework that emphasised human-map-space interaction in tourist map design. His projects deal with human-media-spatial interactions.
	Rohan Jayasinghe Interventional Cardiologist. Director of Cardiology and Cardiac Services – Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service District Professor of Cardiology at Griffith University, Gold Coast Professor of Medicine at Bond University, Gold Coast Member of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care.
	Anoop Rao Anoop Rao completed his early clinical training in India and graduate work at MIT, Cambridge before joining the med-tech space. Over the last 6 years he has helped several leading medical/surgical device companies catalyze early stage device innovation from an Intellectual Property (IP) perspective in several areas such as minimally invasive GI (NOTES procedure), Orthopedic and cardiac surgery. He currently drives the IP and innovation process at AgaMatrix, a company that manufactures next generation Blood Glucose Monitoring products.
	Satvinder S. Dhaliwal Satvinder S. Dhaliwal is an Associate Professor & Director of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Directorate within the School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology. His research interests include the application of Biostatistics in the fields of Public Health and Clinical Research. Satvinder has worked as a Statistician for the past 20 years and has accumulated extensive experience, both nationally and internationally, on the practical application of Statistics in a wide variety of situations. He has been a co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications.
	Dr. C Jairaj Kumar Dr. C Jairaj Kumar earned his medical degree from Manipal University India and has been research active since then. He has worked in wide variety of areas ranging from Internal medicine and diabetes, chronobiology and infectious diseases. He maintains human chronotype data base for India and Asia at his Advanced Medical Research Laboratory. Dr.Kumar has published widely and has won numerous awards including the prestigious Philips best innovation award. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the journal Scientific Medicine (India) and Associate Editor for the journal Cases (UK).
	Markus Melloh MD MPH Dr Markus Melloh is Senior Clinical Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago. He is an Orthopaedic Surgeon and Rheumatologist trained at the Free University Berlin. Markus holds an MD in Sports Medicine from the Charité Berlin. He previously worked at the University of Berne as EuroSpine Research Fellow and Coordinator of the International Spine Registry Spine Tango.
	Tim Shaw Associate Professor Tim Shaw is Director of the Workforce Education and Development Group at The University of Sydney. His focus is on developing, evaluating and researching effective professional health education.