Bronwyn Stuckey is a clinical endocrinologist with a special interest in reproductive endocrinology. She is a consultant endocrinologist at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, Medical Director of the Keogh Institute for Medical Research and Clinical Professor in the Medical School, University of Western Australia. She is a Past President of the Australasian Menopause Society, a Life Member of the Endocrine Society of Australia, and a Member of the Order of Australia. She is very interested in the influence of reproductive hormones on metabolism.

Dr Rechtin is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and works half time at Noosa Hospital. Beyond his Emergency Medicine work, he has extensive experience in Cannabis Medicine both as a prescriber and as Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of The CBD Guys, producers of Humacology CBD medicines.

Dr Rechtin graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 2007 and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2010. He was a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and after moving to Australia in 2013, he became a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Dr Rechtin has experience prescribing Cannabis Medicine in the USA since 2010 and has prescribed for multiple clinics in Australia since 2019 as an Authorized Prescriber. To avoid conflicts of interest as a cannabis medicine business owner, he no longer sees patients in the Cannabis Medicine space, instead focusing his time on cannabis education and development of high quality, low cost CBD medicines for Australia and other international markets.

Prof Sharon Dawe is a Professor in Psychology and a Registered Psychologist (Clinical). She holds an Adjunct Professorial appointment at the Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia and Fellow at Social Policy and Interventions at Oxford University (UK). Her awards include the PVC Health Staff Excellence award for Engagement (2024) and the VC Research Excellence Award for Research Impact (2025).

She has an international reputation and extensive research track record in addiction, mental health, child maltreatment and assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders. She has been working in the field of substance misuse and mental health for over 30 years on a range of clinical interventions for substance misuse, high risk families and child maltreatment. Her most recent work focuses on the interplay between early childhood adversity and exposure to trauma and parenting with a focus on assessment and models of care for neurodevelopmental disorders. She leads a consortium focusing on neurodevelopmental disorders in young children and youth involved in the youth justice system. She has co-developed the award-winning Parents under Pressure program in collaboration with Paul Harnett.

I’m Professor of Molecular and Cellular Virology at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, where I lead a group that studies influenza viruses. Before moving to Glasgow I trained as a graduate student at the University of Cambridge and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford.

Professor Nehmat Houssami (MBBS, FAFPHM, FASBP, MPH, MEd, PhD) is Professor of Public Health, NBCF Chair in Breast Cancer Prevention and NHMRC Investigator (Leader) Fellow at the University of Sydney (Daffodil Centre).

She is a breast physician and public health physician with expertise in breast cancer, in particular population screening and breast diagnostics.

Research interests include: evaluation of new technologies; the impact of testing on clinical outcomes in breast cancer; evidence-based practice in breast diagnostics; pre-operative staging in newly diagnosed breast cancer; test accuracy; image-guided intervention; population breast screening; screening women with a personal history of breast cancer (cancer survivors); and systematic reviews.

Prof Tony Butler has worked on numerous projects in the justice health area over the past 20 years and is currently head of the Justice Health Research Program, UNSW, School of Population Health. He developed Australia’s only two national offender health data collections: the National Prison Entrants Bloodborne Virus Survey, and the Prisoner Health Information Collection. He leads studies examining psychosis and offending, the role of head injury in offending, a pharmacotherapy-based RCT (ReINVEST) for impulsive-violent offenders, an intervention (Beyond Violence) for women who use violence, and text mining police domestic violence event narratives. He co-leads the NHMRC-funded Australian Centre for Offender Health Research. More recently he has developed two teaching electives: ‘Public Health and Corrections’ aimed the nexus between health and criminology, and the ever popular ‘Inside the Criminal Mind’ course.

Dr Emaediong Akpanekpo (MBBS, MPH in Epidemiology) is an epidemiologist specialising in health and justice research. Since completing his PhD in 2025, his work has focused on the intersection of mental illness, reoffending trajectories, and treatment interventions. His methodological expertise includes recurrent event analysis, multi-state models, psychiatric epidemiology, survival analysis, and administrative data linkage.

Dr Akpanekpo co-led the statistical analysis for the ReINVEST RCT, the first trial of sertraline to reduce recidivism in violent offenders. He has led cohort studies published in Schizophrenia Research and Psychiatric Services examining how mental health treatment affects reoffending among justice-involved youth. His population-based cohort study in Australasian Psychiatry provided evidence that incarceration is associated with the onset of new mental disorders in youth with no prior psychiatric history. His BMJ Mental Health study identified increased psychiatric admissions after expiration of justice supervision, and his Journal of Criminal Justice article was the first to use multi-state models to map criminal justice transitions dynamically. His implementation science study in Justice, Opportunities, and Rehabilitation validated youth violence risk predictions across different supervision contexts.

He has published 15+ peer-reviewed articles in journals including Lancet eClinicalMedicine, BMJ Mental Health, Schizophrenia Research, Psychiatric Services, and the Journal of Criminal Justice, leading 10 as first or co-first author. He supervises medical students and Honours and Masters students, and is a peer reviewer for Australasian Psychiatry, General Psychiatry, Trauma, Violence and Abuse, BMC Public Health, and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. He is a member of the Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association.

Lee Knight is a formally trained Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) who specialises in the field of forensic psychiatry. Currently, Lee is the Academic Program Director for the Mental Health Practice Program at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and serves as a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health.

Lee has over 20 years of experience in the field, including a significant role as the Clinical Coordinator of a large, randomised control study at UNSW from 2013 to 2023. Additionally, Lee holds leadership positions, such as Board Director and Chair of the Clinical Governance and Operations Committee for the Australian Kookaburra Kids Foundation (AKKF).

Prof Peter William Schofield is a behaviour neurologist and Conjoint Professor in Medicine and Public Health and Psychology at University of Newcastle and an adjunct professor in public health at UNSW. I have trained in epidemiology.

Rhys Mantell is a final-year PhD candidate in the School of Population Health at UNSW and a researcher within the Justice Health Research Program (JHRP). His doctoral work, undertaken as part of the NHMRC-funded ASCAPE project, focuses on co-designing and evaluating digital health tools—particularly game-based cognitive assessments (GBCAs)—for older people in restrictive environments such as prisons. His research examines how innovative digital technologies can strengthen cognitive screening and improve health outcomes for older adults involved in the justice system, with a strong emphasis on trauma-informed and culturally appropriate design, development and implementation.

Alongside his PhD, Rhys contributes to a growing program of research exploring the reintegration journeys of older people leaving Australian prisons. This includes qualitative and mixed-methods studies on health literacy, digital exclusion, and the emotional dimensions of post-release recovery. He was recently awarded a Seed Grant to lead the project Unpacking strengths-based emotional healing and trauma recovery for older Australians with a recent experience of incarceration, which investigates how older adults define and navigate emotional healing after prison—and how services can better support this process.

Rhys also contributes to the ReINVEST trial, the world’s first randomised controlled trial evaluating pharmacological interventions for men with histories of violence, where he supports qualitative research and knowledge translation.

His broader experience spans national evaluations and policy projects across ageing, mental health, and justice health sectors, including roles at Deloitte and Australian Healthcare Associates.

Rhys has a particular interest in critical realism, which he applies to examine complex social and psychological phenomena in justice health. This perspective underpins much of his qualitative work, informing analyses of the lived experiences of marginalised and underserved populations and guiding the development of practical, theory-informed insights for service design and policy reform.

Professor Pedagogos is currently the Clinical Research Lead for the @Home Division at Western Health and the Director of Medical Services at Epworth Freemasons, where she leads initiatives in patient care, translational research, and clinical innovation.

She is a practicing Nephrologist and Clinical Professor at the University of Melbourne, actively engaged in medical education and collaborative research.

She has previously held leadership roles including Head of Unit, Custodial Health at Western Health and Director of Medical Innovation at Epworth HealthCare, bringing over 30 years of experience across the medical, education, and healthcare sectors.

Richard MacIsaac is professor and director of Endocrinology and Diabetes at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and the University of Melbourne. Prior to taking up his current position he was head of diabetes at Austin Health, Melbourne. His main research interest is diabetes and its complications, especially those related to cardiovascular and kidney disease. He has published over 180 research articles. Prior to embarking in a career in medicine, he completed a PhD at the Howard Florey Institute, Melbourne where he examined the development of the foetal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and then embarked on a 2-year post doctorial fellowship at St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne examining foetal calcium metabolism. He graduated from the University of Melbourne’s Medical School in 1995 and was awarded his fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2002. Currently specific research interests are inpatient glycaemic control, defining the albuminuria and glomerular filtration rate relationship in diabetes, investigating new biomarkers for renal and vascular disease in diabetes and studying renal function in indigenous Australians.