Prof Stephen Nicholls is a world-renowned cardiologist and leads the Victorian Heart Hospital (VHH). A multiple-award winner, Professor Nicholls has written more than 770 manuscripts, book chapters and conference proceedings, and has raised more than $100 million in research funding.

Tianyu Wu is a PhD candidate in Clinical Medicine at Nanjing University, working with Prof. Yan Bi in the Department of Endocrinology at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital. In his current research, he developed a connectome-based biotyping framework that uses whole-brain functional connectivity and unsupervised machine learning to identify two distinct neurobiological obesity biotypes with divergent exteroceptive and interoceptive network architectures. These biotypes showed differential responses to incretin-based therapy, establishing a brain-guided precision stratification paradigm for obesity management.

Richard J MacIsaac is Professor and Director of Endocrinology, Department of Endocrinology & Diabetes, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne and Senior Principal Research Associate, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria

Dr Sarah Parry is a Staff Specialist Endocrinologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and RPA Health One Green Square. She has completed a PhD from the University of Sydney, researching drivers of metabolic liver disease in diabetes.

Liyana Ahmad Zamri is a researcher at the Institute for Medical Research, Malaysia, with publications in obesity, cardiometabolic health, and weight change. Her work focuses on metabolic risk markers, body composition, and obesity interventions, contributing to improved understanding of cardiometabolic outcomes in diverse clinical and population-based settings.

Karen Bromley is an Endocrinology Advanced Trainee based in Perth, Western Australia. She is passionate about improving care and outcomes for people living with diabetes.

Dr. Longfield is an Early Career Postdoctoral Researcher working within the Kolling Institute of Medical Research and Department of Diabetes, Metabolism and Endocrinology at the Royal North Shore Hospital under the leadership if Prof. Sarah Glastras. Her work spans clinical trials and basic science research focusing on clinical translation.

Associate Professor Samantha Hocking is an Endocrinologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and a Clinical Academic at the University of Sydney. She is the current president of the National Association of Clinical Obesity Services (NACOS)