Sam Kosari is a pharmacist and an Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Canberra. His research focuses on improving interdisciplinary care in primary care and aged care. Sam led the research team that developed the on-site pharmacist in aged care model and conducted the first pilot study in the Australian Capital Territory in 2017 that was followed by a cluster randomised controlled trial and an implementation study, to assess the effectiveness and implementation of the on-site pharmacist model in residential aged care model.

Dr Amy Page is a registered consultant pharmacist and qualified biostatistician. Her vision is to reduce medicines-related harm while balancing symptom control to align with individualised treatment goals for older people to improve well-being. She undertakes knowledge creation and translation through implementation, practitioner development, communication and media, engagement with professional bodies and policy for sustained impact on pharmacy practice. Dr Page is the inaugural director of the Centre for Optimisation of Medicines, which aims to transform healthcare through advancing professional practice and optimisation of medicines. The Centre for Optimisation of Medicines purpose is bench to bedside knowledge creation and translation through engagement with consumers, clinicians, and organisations to advance professional practice and facilitate medicines optimisation. She developed and is course director for the Master of Advanced Clinical Practice for allied health professionals. She has received over $5 million in research funding and published over 140 articles including more than 100 peer reviewed papers. She has presented on medicine safety and the quality use of medicines for older people nationally and internationally. Her research is frequently profiled in the professional and lay media. She has worked in a variety patient-facing roles across community, hospital, home medication reviews, Aboriginal community-controlled health service and general practice. She was one of the first Australian pharmacists to work within a general practice to optimise medicines use among people with multimorbidty and polypharmacy. She continues to work in community pharmacy and undertakes medication reviews. Dr Page has been consistently recognised by the Australian Journal of Pharmacy as one of the most influential people in pharmacy since 2017, most recently in December 2022. She was honoured to receive the 2022 Vice Chancellor's Early Career Researcher award, and to be named PSA’s 2015 Young Pharmacist of the Year and this year’s Pharmacist of the Year.

Associate Professor Magda Raban (PhD, MIPH, BPharm) leads the Medication Safety and Electronic Decision Support research stream within the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. Prior to working in research, Magda was a practicing pharmacist for close to ten years. Magda’s program of research focuses on the use of information technology to improve medication safety, the quality use of medicines and patient outcomes across a range of care settings, including acute care and aged care. Her interests include how the design of electronic decision support systems can be optimised to deliver guideline-based care, and how routinely collected data can inform quality improvement. Magda has experience leading multi-method evaluations, including randomised trials of health service interventions. Magda is an Associate Editor for Applied Clinical Informatics and BMC Health Services Research. Magda has received over $5M in competitive research funding and her research is nationally and internationally recognised, informing guidelines and policies of agencies such as the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

Dr Cross is an NHMRC Emerging Leader research fellow at the Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University. She has secured over $4.8million in research funding, and published over 30 papers (including 16 has first author). She has an emerging national and international profile, focused on medication safety in older adults and knowledge translation in aged care. Her current work is evaluating new roles for health care professionals, particularly pharmacists, to act as system-level knowledge brokers to support guideline implementation in residential aged care. Dr Cross is also a practicing pharmacist, conducting home and residential medication management reviews.