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).

Professor Sophia Zoungas, MBBS(Hons) PhD FRACP FAAHMS Professor Sophia Zoungas is the Head of the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, a Professor of Diabetes, Vascular Health and Ageing, and the Academic Director of the Monash University Clinical Trials Centre. She is also a consultant Endocrinologist and Physician with clinical appointments at both Monash Health, including the Victorian Heart Hospital, and Alfred Health, Melbourne. Professor Zoungas is internationally recognised for her expertise in the design and conduct of large multicentre, multinational clinical trials and cohort studies which have impacted directly on public health and clinical care. She has assembled international and national teams in diabetes, cardiovascular and kidney health, including investigator lead projects and large-scale clinical trials. Her significant contribution to the advancement of diabetes research has been recognised through the Kellion Diabetes Award and induction into the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Professor Zoungas has over 330 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal, and Nature Reviews and she is recognised as one of the most cited researchers in the field of diabetes.