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).

Distinguished Professor David Simmons is Chief Medical Officer for Diabetes Australia, Professor of Medicine at Western Sydney University, District Advisor on Diabetes for the South Western Sydney Local Health District and previous Director of the Macarthur Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism Service in Sydney, Australia. Before returning to Australia in 2014, Professor Simmons was the Clinical lead for the Diabetes service at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge UK. With over 500 refereed publications, he has won several national and international awards for his work in diabetes epidemiology, diabetes in pregnancy and diabetes service development including the American Diabetes Association 2020 Norbert Freinkel Award, 2022 Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group Pederson Award and 2025 International Diabetes Epidemiology Group Peter Bennett Award. He is the immediate past president of the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS). He is the Chief Investigator for APHLID, an RCT of a mental health/diabetes app in young adults with type 1 diabetes, the TOBOGM study the first large RCT of diagnosing and treating early gestational diabetes mellitus and Australian Chief Investigator for the CIRCUIT RCT of closed loop in pregnancies complicated by Type 1 diabetes and the CORDELIA RCT of CGM in GDM. He remains a practising endocrinologist holding weekly diabetes in pregnancy clinics.

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.

A/Prof Sarah Glastras is a clinician researcher who is the Head of Department, and Senior 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 undertakes 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, obesity, and hypertriglyceridaema. 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).