Joanna Steinglass, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Eating Disorders Center for Research and Treatment at Columbia University. Dr. Steinglass graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Medical School. She completed her psychiatry training at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute and joined the Eating Disorders team in 2003. Dr. Steinglass also serves as Training Director of the Eating Disorders T32 Research Fellowship.

Dr. Steinglass' research examines the neural and behavioral mechanisms of illness in anorexia nervosa paired with the development of mechanism-based treatments. She conducts interdisciplinary research that uses tools from cognitive and computational neuroscience to apply the latest understanding of the healthy brain to research on anorexia nervosa. She applies these insights to the development of behavioral, neuromodulatory, and pharmacological interventions for patients with eating disorders.

Professor Helena Teede MBBS FRACP FAAHMS FRANZCOG FRCOG PhD AM is a clinician academic and reproductive endocrinologist at Monash University in Australia. She holds an NHMRC Investigator Fellowship in women’s health. She is Director Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation and leads the Centre for Research Excellence for Women’s Health in Reproductive Life.

She has over 800 publications, is a High Cite researcher and has $124M in career grant funding, mostly as lead investigator. She is President of the International Society of Endocrinology. Her research program focuses on women’s reproductive and metabolic health including PCOS, where she leads international guidelines. She also has research and training programs in women in leadership and in large scale health system change. 

Dr Peter Koval is an Associate Professor in Psychology and co-director of the Functions of Emotion in Everyday Life (FEEL) Lab. His research interests lie at the intersection of social, personality, and clinical psychology with a focus on the dynamics of emotional processes in daily life, including how people experience and regulate their emotions in response to everyday events, and how these processes relate to well-being and psychological functioning.

Dr Koval's research has been published in leading generalist (e.g., PNAS, Psychological Science) and specialist journals (e.g., Emotion, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology). He leads the development of SEMA3 (https://sema3.com/), a research platform for collecting intensive longitudinal data with smartphones, used by over 1,000 researchers at leading institutions around the world. He is also a co-developer of EMOTE (https://emotedatabase.com/), a large-scale, searchable repository of intensive longitudinal data on emotion experience in daily life.

Hiba Jebeile is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Accredited Practicing Dietitian at The University of Sydney. Her PhD research explored the use of intermittent energy restriction as a novel dietary intervention for the treatment of adolescent obesity and the impact of dietary focused obesity treatment on psychological health. She has led high quality reviews on the impact of obesity treatments for adolescents and adults on eating disorders risk and psychosocial health.

Her current research explores the intersection between obesity treatments and eating disorder risk, and the use of screening protocols for the early identification of eating disorders during obesity treatment. Hiba is the Co-lead and Program Manager of the EDIT Collaboration, a world-first international collaboration of researchers, clinicians and consumers exploring individual variability in eating disorder risk during behavioural interventions for obesity. As a testament to the quality of her research, Hiba has received several awards including the Dietitians Australia New Researcher Award and the 2024 ANZOS Young Investigator Award.

Professor Adam Guastella is a clinical psychologist, the Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health, and head of the Clinic for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre. His research encompasses all stages of development, from young infants through to late adulthood, across a range of neurodiverse and mental health conditions, such as autism, anxiety, psychosis, and substance dependence.

Professor Guastella has an established track record in human translational neuroscience, using neuroscience to inform and develop novel treatments for young patients with mental health problems. His team was the first in the world to show that a medication could be used as a treatment for social challenges in young children with autism, and his program of research now incorporates multi-site trials across Europe, Asia and Australia.

Dominic Dwyer is the Head of Clinical AI at Orygen and an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne (Medicine) and Monash University (Computer Science). His mission is to safely augment clinical care for all young Australians by 2030. This mission started in 2014 in Europe before coming to Australia and expanding into three connected activities: 1) research into AI for mental health; 2) building human-centered AI products to use in care; 3) building software products and services to safely translate research into care.

His work has been supported by over $40M AUD in direct and indirect research funding across Australia, Europe, and the USA. It has resulted in more than 100 peer-reviewed publications with 7,000+ citations. Dom currently directs Australia’s flagship National Critical Research Infrastructure for AI in Youth Mental Health, which is a $3M initiative to support the safe translation of AI to care. He has also led global AI training initiatives for researchers since 2016 and will launch an online learning micro-certificate for clinicians in 2026. 

Dr Cassandra Sedran-Price is a proud Muruwari/Gangugari woman and Senior Research Fellow at the University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney. An interdisciplinary researcher, her work spans Indigenous health, climate and environmental research, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance. Cas is the founder and Director of the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance Australia and an internationally recognised leader in strengthening Indigenous governance of data, research and policy. She is Co-Chair of the HEAL Network Indigenous Steering Committee and an Executive Member of the Global Indigenous Data Alliance, contributing to national and international initiatives advancing Indigenous rights, self-determination and equitable data systems.

Dr Bronwyn Raykos is a Clinical Psychologist, researcher, and innovator who currently works as Project Manager (Eating Disorders) with the WA Country Health Service and as Director of Morgan Psychology, a private practice based in Perth. She has more than 20 years' experience in eating disorder treatment, service development, research, and workforce training. Dr Raykos has led the development of eating disorder models of care across regional Western Australia and is currently leading the co-design and implementation of Feelings About My Body and Eating, Australia's first culturally co-designed eating disorder screening tool for Aboriginal young people. Her work focuses on improving equitable access to evidence-based and culturally safe care, particularly for people who face the greatest barriers to specialist services, including those living in regional and remote communities. She is passionate about helping clinicians feel competent and confident in identifying, assessing and treating eating disorders.

Mandi Kelly is a proud Noongar Yorga (woman) from Ballardong, Whadjuk, Wardandi, Menang, and Wilman country in the South West and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia. She works with the WA Country Health Service as a Senior Program Officer in the Aboriginal Mental Health team and has been with the organisation for eight years, serving in a variety of roles.

Mandi is dedicated to supporting Aboriginal health and mental health across regional and remote Western Australia. Her work focuses on strengthening culturally safe health services and supporting the development of Aboriginal-led programs, workforce development initiatives, and community engagement activities that benefit both the health workforce and community members.

She is passionate about collaboration and co-design, particularly in developing culturally appropriate and relevant assessment tools that capture important cultural information to support improved health outcomes. Mandi is also committed to enhancing workforce development initiatives and fostering meaningful engagement with Aboriginal people to achieve positive outcomes for both the Aboriginal workforce and the communities they serve.

Shannon Calvert is a lived experience educator and adviser specialising in trauma-informed systems change across eating disorders, mental health, and palliative care. Her work is grounded in nearly three decades of lived experience and is focused on advancing ethical, person-led, and compassionate care. Shannon is currently the Lived Experience Co-Production Co-Lead at the Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre and has held leadership roles in national policy, research, and service reform. She previously served on the advisory panel for the Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission and the National Mental Health Consumer Carer Forum. Shannon brings deep experience in co-design, peer workforce leadership, and embedding lived experience into research, systems, and service design. She also works independently, providing reflective supervision and supporting the sector to build compassionate, person-centred care pathways — particularly for those with longstanding or complex experiences of eating disorders.

Genevieve is an experienced mental health occupational therapist and academic. Built on almost 20 years' work in the areas of mental health and eating disorders in Canada and at Deakin University in Australia and including partnerships with national and international leaders in the field, Professor Pepin has established herself as a significant contributor to eating disorders research.

Her expertise and passions are in research co-produced with carers of people with an eating disorder, understanding the impact of eating disorders on function and the daily activities of those with an eating disorder and their family, and the development of innovative interventions promoting best health outcomes.

Her research is impactful and translational, leading to changes in practice and services as demonstrated by her invitation to join the Advisory Committee for the development of the Australian Eating Disorders Research & Translation Strategy 2021-2031. She is a member of the executive group of the Australian Eating Disorder Research and Translation Centre. She is the co-lead of the Lived-Experience and Co-Production stream of the Centre and a member of the National Eating Disorders Research Consortium. In addition, Professor Pepin’s reputation as an occupational therapy scholar rests on a unique expertise and knowledge of ground-breaking interventions and conceptual model of practice that have influenced practice, research, and education in the field for decades.

Dr Sanna Barrand is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University. Sanna has worked in various research projects nationally and internationally. She has a PhD in Epigenetics from University of Oslo, Norway. Her PhD aimed to define the epigenetic landscape of pluripotency genes in cells with varying differentiation capacity to increase our understanding of cell plasticity. Her post-doctoral study at Deakin University focused on understanding the impact of maternal suboptimal diet on the health of the next generation.

Recently she worked as a Lived Experience Research Officer at HARMON-E clinical trial at Food and Mood Centre, Deakin University. In this role Sanna was involved in the various stages of the trial and contributed to the development of processes and review of trial documents with a lived experience lens. Additionally, she contributed to the design of one-on-one interviews, the development of workbooks and created a lived experience package for the trial participants.  During this role Sanna developed a passion for co-design and co-production practises in research. She believes that creating meaningful partnerships between people with lived experience (individuals, family, and carers) and researchers will improve research relevance, quality, and outcomes.

Dr Barrand works with A/Prof Genevieve Pepin and Shannon Calvert in the Lived Experience and Co-Production stream of the Centre. Sanna will be involved in developing co-design guidelines and resources to advance co-designed research in the field of eating disorder. She will contribute to generating new evidence about the role of people with lived experience in eating disorders research and education.