Professor Paul J White is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Professor White has led a transformation of teaching within his faculty, via an active learning approach. He co-leads an international initiative to re-imagine pharmacology education via a focus on helping graduates develop an ability to apply the core concepts of the discipline in novel situations. His contribution to education has been recognised by many awards, including the Elizabeth Davis Teaching Excellence Award from the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology Education Section (2022) and three excellence awards from the Australian Awards for University Teaching, including the Teaching Excellence award in 2022. A cardiovascular researcher, he has explored the use of novel biased agonists for use post-myocardial infarction with Dr Lauren May, and has published in Nature, Nature Biotechnology and PNAS.

Dr Suong Ngo has been a member of ASCEPT since 1999 and actively contributed to ASCEPT Annual Scientific Meetings, AGMs and Education Forum, Symposium. Suong has been working closely with Fellow ASCEPT educators on developing the core concepts of pharmacology education and is part of the Australian and New Zealand Core Concepts Group (CC-PEG) (White et al., 2021; Santiago, Davis et al., 2021, Guilding et al., 2023) and was one of the attendees at the Inaugural Core Concepts of Pharmacology Education Workshop, held at Monash University Prato Centre, Italy in July 2022 as part of the IUPHAR Education project. Her current research focuses on the anti-cancer stem cell effects of cruciferous vegetables’ constituents. Overall, she has published over 50 research papers in high quality specialised scientific journals, including in BJP and JPRP. Suong is a Committee Member of the ASCEPT Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Tori is a pharmacist and teaching specialist in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. In addition to teaching and consultation around teaching of medicines and quality use of medicines, Tori focuses on supporting students to transition successfully into and through their studies, and holds the role of A/Dean Learning and Teaching (Student Success and Engagement).

Tina Hinton (BSc Hons, PhD, Grad Dip Sci Psych) is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at The University of Sydney. She teaches pharmacology to Medical Science, Science, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Medicine students and is involved in biomedical sciences learning and teaching leadership and governance. Tina’s primary research area is neuropharmacology, particularly the role of GABA in stress and stress-related illness, as well as effects of plant-sourced substances on GABA receptor activity with the potential to regulate stress and endocrine responses. Tina has also published on pharmacology curriculum, pharmacology learning activities, and influence of learning space on learner activity.

Betty Exintaris is an Education-Focused academic, Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching, Associate Dean Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Monash University’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. With over 20 years of experience in teaching physiology and pharmacology, her expertise lies in innovative, inclusive teaching practices that enhance student engagement and learning.

Lynette completed her PhD at UWA before taking up postdoctoral positions at The Johns Hopkins University. On returning to UWA, she continued her research in respiratory pharmacology, with an emphasis on airway nerve function and modulation, respiratory viral infection and allergic airways disease. Lynette was part of a nation-wide team that secured funding from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) for a project entitled “Ensuring quality graduates of Pharmacology”. She has developed a program in responsible conduct in learning and research that is now embedded within Pharmacology and Medical Research Honours curricula. Lynette led the development and implementation of the multi-disciplinary ethics unit, Social Responsibility in Action SCIE2100 and a Minor in Applied Ethics. Lynette developed the ASCEPT Mentoring Program and has received the ASCEPT Teaching Excellence Award. She is an active member of the ASCEPT Education Forum, having previously served as Chair. Lynette collaborated with ASCEPT colleagues to define the core concepts in Pharmacology. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Lynette is an active member of the IUPHAR-Education Section, where she is a Councillor, core concepts of pharmacology expert group member, and Online Meetings Steering Group Member-at-Large.

After some years working as a community pharmacist, I came to Macquarie University to do a PhD in Pharmacology. I finished my PhD in 2015, where I researched the effect of single nucleotide polymorphisms and phosphomutation of the mu-opioid receptor. After concluding my PhD, I started working for Prof. Mark Connor and the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics. The project focus in the creation of platforms for the cell based elucidation of potential cannabinoid mechanisms of action in epilepsies. Now I am engaged in teaching pharmacology, research and professional practice, in addition to continue researching molecular pharmacology of cannabinoids and opioids.

Dr Anna-Marie Babey received her PhD from McGill University in Montreal, undertook post-doctoral work on opioid tolerance with Prof Gavril Pasternak at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and with Prof Ping-Yee Law in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota. She is currently a member of the School of Science & Technology at the University of New England, and has an extensive history of teaching and curriculum development across 9 different degree programs at 2 Australian universities. She is particularly interested in developing learning activities that enhance students’ creativity, adaptability, and critical-thinking skills as part of her commitment to education quality. She is an active member of the ASCEPT Education Forum, having previously served as Secretary, a Councillor of the IUPHAR-Education Section, a member of the Australasian core concepts of pharmacology project, and a member of the IUPHAR-Education core concepts of pharmacology research team.

Gregg completed his Bachelor of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney in 1995, with a major in experimental pharmacology. He completed his intern year at St George hospital, Kogarah and registered as a pharmacist. He then completed an Honours project at Sydney University studying cytoskeletal protein rearrangements in leukaemia cells. Attaining first class honours, he started work towards a PhD with his thesis focusing on the development of polyclonal antibodies against a purinergic receptor, P2Y11, which was completed in 2008. He then accepted a 12 month position as an Associate Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at Sydney University. After this period he continued his employment as a casual academic in many pharmaceutical and biochemistry related disciplines with the Faculty of Pharmacy and the School of Molecular Biosciences. In August 2010, he joined the team at CSU in Orange lecturing in pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacotherapeutics and pharmacy practice to pharmacy, dentistry, medicine, nursing & paramedic students. Although he was transitioned to a teaching focused he has been involved in the Australian group working on core concepts in pharmacology and explored parameters influencing the difficulty of clinical cases used in pharmacy assessment.

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.