Jenny Couper is a clinician researcher and paediatric endocrinologist. She is Head of the Discipline of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide and was Head of the Diabetes and Endocrinology Department, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, SA. She leads the Australian early life at-risk cohort (ENDIA study www.endia.org.au) and the Breakthrough T1D Australian monitoring program of children with early type 1 diabetes. She co-chairs the ISPAD early type 1` diabetes advisory group and is a co –author of international guidelines for the management of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents.

P. Toby Coates MD PhD is the Director of Kidney, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Professor at the University of Adelaide. He is a translational clinician scientist and transplant nephrologist. He was a foundation member of the Australian Islet Consortium in 2006. In 2017 his team undertook Australia’s first paediatric total pancreatectomy and islet auto transplant (TP-IAT) for Hereditary Pancreatitis in Adelaide. He founded Beta Cell Technologies for the development of alternative sites for islet cell transplantation. He is the principal investigator in the HEPATA study (Hereditary Pancreatitis and Islet Auto Transplantation Trials in Australia).