Professor Elif Ekinci is a clinician scientist and an academic endocrinologist. Her research is focused on the pathophysiology, prevention, detection and treatment of diabetes and its complications in humans. She collaborates with people to pave a path forward to translate discoveries into solutions that can change clinical practice. She is also Director Head of Diabetes Austin Health Sir Edward Weary Dunlop Professorial Fellow In Metabolic Medicine and Dame Kate Campbell Fellow at The University of Melbourne Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations (ACADI).

A/Prof Sarah Glastras is a clinician researcher who works as a Staff Specialist in Endocrinology at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and is an academic Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She also consults at the Northern Sydney Endocrine Clinic. She is an NHMRC Fellow undertaking basic science research in the area of foetal programming of chronic disease, and she is a principal researcher in a major NHMRC funded population based project in gestational diabetes and pregnancy outcomes. She runs many clinical studies in the areas of diabetes and obesity. She currently chairs the Diabetes Clinical Advisory Group within the Northern Sydney Local Health District and is the Training Lead of the TTRA-funded Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations (ACADI).