Mr. Simon Bann MB BS BSc (Hons) MD FRCS FRCS (Gen Surg) FRACS Simon is a London trained UGI and laparoscopic Surgeon including his MD at Imperial College with Professor Darzi coming to New Zealand in 2007. He has published extensively in a number of areas including assessment of surgery, new technologies in surgery and advanced laparoscopic surgery. He is the Clinical Director for Surgical services and Women’s Health at CCHV. He is a previous Chair of the New Zealand Board in General Surgery; is the current vice-president of NZAGS and is a current General Surgery Examiner for FRACS.

Adam Nelson MBBS MBA MPH PhD is an interventional and preventative cardiologist appointed to the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals and the University of Adelaide where he is the head of the Cardiometabolic Clinical Trial Unit. Adam is the chair of the CSANZ Prevention Council and Academic Lead of the Asia Pacific Cardiometabolic Consortium. Adam is on the national or global leadership of multiple trials evaluating emerging therapies for dyslipidaemia, obesity and diabetes. He is the recipient of >$10millon of peer-reviewed grant funding and received the Shirley Hamilton Award for the National Heart Foundation top ranked post-doctoral fellowship candidate. He has over 200 publications and book chapters but is most proud of his two boys, Archer and Max.

André completed a PhD at St Vincent’s / University of Melbourne and 4 years of post-doctoral research at the University Hospital of Leuven, Belgium. His research and clinical work focus on the effect of exercise on the human heart. He studies the range of health from severe heart and lung disease to elite athletic performance. André heads the National Centre for Sports Cardiology that comprises a young team of multi-disciplinary researchers based at the HEART Lab, supported by St Vincent’s Institute and the Victor Chang Cardiovascular Research Institute. He has pioneered novel imaging techniques including exercise cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and contrast echocardiography. He has more than 300 peer-review publications and text-book chapters, serves on multiple international guideline statements and is regularly invited to present at all major international cardiology conferences.

Professor Krebs is an Endocrinologist with a particular interest in obesity and diabetes. He trained in Endocrinology at Wellington Hospital in New Zealand and then did his doctorate with the Medical Research Council - Human Nutrition Research unit in Cambridge England. His thesis was on the impact of dietary factors on obesity and insulin resistance. Prof Krebs returned to New Zealand in 2002 to take up a consultant Endocrinology post at Wellington Hospital, where he was Clinical Leader of Endocrinology and Diabetes from 2007 to 2017. He is a past President of NZSSD. He is a Professor of Medicine with the University of Otago, and previously the Director of the Clinical Research Diploma at Victoria University. As well as clinical and teaching activities, Prof Krebs leads a research group across the DHB and the University in the area of obesity and diabetes, with a focus on nutritional aspects, and diabetes service delivery. He has a wide range of collaborations across disciplines and institutions. These include working with basic scientists in genetics and immunology and with academic nutritionists.

Teresa Nagel is a registered Health Psychologist based in private practice in Wellington. She holds an MSc in Health Psychology and is registered with the New Zealand Psychologists Board and a member of the New Zealand Psychological Society. Her clinical practice centres on supporting patients living with chronic illness — including diabetes, cardiac conditions, and cancer — where lifestyle change and self-management are central to outcomes. Her work focuses on supporting clients to adjust to and manage the psychological impact of chronic illness, including anxiety, depression, and adjusting to who they are after a significant health event. Teresa has a particular interest in the psychology of behaviour change.