Dr. Yau-Jiunn Lee is the Director of Lee’s Endocrinology Clinic in Taiwan and Honorary Chairman of the Taiwan Association of Clinical Diabetes. A specialist in endocrinology, diabetology, and nephrology, he earned his M.D. and Doctor of Medical Science from Kaohsiung Medical University. With over 40 years of clinical and academic experience, Dr. Lee has published extensively on diabetes, CKD, and cardiovascular risk. He is recognized globally as a top 0.5% scholar in diabetes and is actively engaged in advancing AI-integrated care for chronic disease management

Dr. Hui-Chun Hsu, RN, is the Director of Diabetes Education at Lee’s United Clinics in Taiwan. She serves as an Executive Board Member of the Taiwan Association of Clinic Diabetes and a Board Member of the Taiwan Association of Diabetes Educator. Her professional focus includes integrated primary care for chronic diseases, diabetes health literacy, and culturally sensitive education. She is also a strong advocate for person-centered holistic care models and has recently been engaged in the clinical application and research of artificial intelligence in diabetes self-management.

Professor Elif Ekinci is Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Director of ACADI. A clinician-researcher in diabetes, she has shaped national guidelines and led transformative initiatives to improve diabetes care, research equity, and outcomes across Australia.

Matt is a clinician-researcher whose focus is working in partnership to understand and address the epidemic of diabetes and related conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. He is a Staff Specialist and Clinical Lead for Remote Services within the Endocrinology Department at Royal Darwin Hospital, and Deputy Lead of the Wellbeing and Chronic Preventable Conditions Division at Menzies School of Health Research. Matt has particular interests and expertise in epidemiology and data-linkage research, but also leads a growing body of clinical and translational projects. In the last five years, his research and collaborations have attracted over $18M in competitive funding. He currently serves as President of the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society and co-led development of the 2025 ADIPS Consensus Recommendations for the screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes. He is a member of the NT Diabetes Network, the International Diabetes Epidemiology Group, and the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS) Research Advisory Committee. His work has been recognised through several awards including the 2024 ADS Skip Martin Fellowship and a 2025 NHMRC Investigator Grant.

Dr Giuliana Murfet, a Bullwinkel Scholar, is a Nurse Practitioner Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the UTS. She also works clinically as a Nurse Practitioner in diabetes and bariatric care. Her research spans co-design and evaluation of rural and regional models of care for diabetes in pregnancy, paediatric diabetes, obesity management in type 2 diabetes, and digital inpatient care. Her current research focuses on strengthening healthcare workforce capability for future diabetes care needs, including the development of a national capability framework to inform health professional education in diabetes. Dr Murfet is a Fellow and past President of the ADEA and a CDE. She chairs the Medical Educational and Scientific Advisory Council, and Health Professional Advisory Council for Diabetes Australia, and is a Steering Committee member of the Living Evidence for Diabetes Consortium