Katie Martin is a project and policy officer in medicine shortages strategy at the Australian Government Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration). She completed an Honours degree in pharmacology at Monash University and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. She has held various roles in the pharmaceutical industry and the Department of Health, including the National COVID-19 Vaccine Taskforce

Dr. Nashwa Masnoon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Ageing and Pharmacology, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney and Northern Sydney Local Health District and a Pharmacist at Royal North Shore Hospital. She completed her PhD in 2020 from the University of South Australia, which focused on identifying older adults at risk of harm from inappropriate polypharmacy. Her research areas are deprescribing, continuity of care during transitions and more broadly, the quality use of medicines.

Dr. Zhao completed her PhD in 2011 at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), Canada. She established her independent research group in 2020, after obtaining her ARC Future Fellowship. Her research focuses on investigating the molecular mechanisms of receptor signalling regulation by intracellular machinery. More specifically, the involvement of Regulators of G protein signalling (RGS) proteins, in cardiometabolic diseases, such as Obesity, type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Her research has provided mechanistic understanding of distinct GPCR behaviour and receptor-mediated signalling profiles under various clinical conditions; identified critical dysregulated pathways and key intracellular mediators that contribute to disease conditions. Her research goal is to evaluate and validate therapeutic potentials for targeting these mediators for treating cardiometabolic disorders. Dr. Zhao has published 44 peer reviewed papers in highly impactful journals including Nature and Science, and has a career H-index of 25.

Dr. Nilushi Karunaratne is a dynamic and award-winning educator specialising in skill-based instruction and innovative practices. In 2017 she was awarded a Faculty Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning and received a Monash university Vice-Chancellor’s Citation in 2018. Nilushi’s education research centers on teamwork and resilience skill-based training. Her expertise in and dedication to skill-based education were recognised in 2021, when she received the ASCEPT Gillian Shenfield Early Educator Award and more recently, was awarded the IUPHAR Education Section Outstanding Early Career Educator Award in 2023. Nilushi is a driver of community growth and development as evidenced by her leadership in the Faculty’s flagship Skills Coaching Program for first year students from 2019 to 2022, and by co-creating the Parkville International and Exchange Students (PIES) Program. Nilushi has also recently been appointed as an IUPHAR Education Councillor and is Co-Deputy for the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Victoria Branch.