Amara Okafor
Consultant Cardiologist
Harbour City Hospital
Amara Okafor runs a cardiometabolic risk clinic and sits on the guideline committee that revised the regional lipid targets last year.
Daniel Reyes
Head of Biostatistics
Southern Cross Clinical Trials Unit
Daniel Reyes leads the statistics group of a multi-site trials unit and has designed four adaptive platform trials across oncology and critical care.
Elena Rossi
Professor of Immunology
Istituto di Medicina Traslazionale
Elena Rossi’s group develops manufacturing processes for engineered T-cell therapies and runs the institute’s first-in-human programme.
Fatima Al-Sayed
Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician
Gulf Children’s Hospital
Fatima Al-Sayed leads antimicrobial stewardship at a children’s hospital and coordinates a regional respiratory virus surveillance network.
Hiroshi Sato
Lead, Real-World Evidence
Kansai Clinical Outcomes Network
Hiroshi Sato leads a registry-linked real-world evidence programme whose studies have supported two label extensions.
Kwame Mensah
Director of Health Economics
Meridian Life Sciences Society
Kwame Mensah advises payers and manufacturers on the evidence needed to price and reimburse advanced therapies.
Liam O’Connell
Clinical Pharmacologist
Meridian Research Institute
Liam O’Connell built the pre-emptive pharmacogenomic testing service now used across three teaching hospitals.
Mei Chen
Senior Research Fellow, Genomic Medicine
Pacific Genomics Centre
Mei Chen leads single-cell profiling for a national immune atlas and works on translating its reference maps into diagnostic panels.
Priya Raman
Associate Professor of Medical Oncology
Tasman University Medical School
Priya Raman splits her time between a breast oncology clinic and a laboratory studying circulating tumour DNA as a guide to therapy decisions.
Rachel Goldberg
Regulatory Science Advisor
Independent
Rachel Goldberg spent a decade as a regulatory reviewer before advising sponsors on trial designs regulators will accept.
Sarah Whitfield
Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Educator
Coastal Health District
Sarah Whitfield set up a network of nurse-led clinics for heart failure and diabetes and now trains the practitioners who staff them.
Tomasz Nowak
Principal Data Scientist
Northwind Scientific Instruments
Tomasz Nowak develops validated digital endpoints from wearable sensor data for decentralised clinical trials.