Dr Stephanie Daly is a GP based in Adelaide and the founder of Sensus Cognition, a primary care cognition clinic. She is the Lead GP Educator at Dementia Training Australia and also works as a GP contractor at Golden Grove Family Health. Dr Daly serves as a medical educator with the Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP), and sits on both the RACGP Training and Education Committee and the Women in General Practice Committee. She is an advisory board member for the Roche Educational Development Team for Alzheimer’s Disease and is an associate investigator on two National Health and Medical Research Council funded research grants. Her work is grounded in a commitment to improve dementia care within general practice, through both education and research.

Associate Professor Michael Woodward AM is Director of Aged Care Research and lead clinician at the Memory Clinic at Austin Health in Melbourne, Victoria. He specialises in geriatric medicine, with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. He is the Principal Investigator for numerous clinical trials investigating new therapies for these conditions, and serves as a board member of the Dementia Australia Research Foundation, as well as one of four Honorary Medical Advisors to Dementia Australia.

He was awarded his MD for his research exploring the overlap between different dementia syndromes and the role of memory clinic data in deepening our understanding of these conditions. His more recent research has focused on characterising the frontal (dysexecutive) variant of Alzheimer’s disease.

He is Chair of the Accreditation Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and has played an active role in the training programs of both the RACP and the Australia and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine for over 30 years.

In recognition of his contributions to dementia and geriatric medicine, his involvement with numerous professional bodies, and his substantial body of academic publications and writings, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on Australia Day in 2016.

Professor Amy Brodtmann leads the Cognitive Health Initiative within the Department of Neuroscience, School of Translational Medicine at Monash University. Prior to this, she held positions as Professor in The Florey Institute at The University of Melbourne and Honorary Adjunct Clinical Professor at Monash University.

She was also Professor and Co-Head of Behavioural Neuroscience at The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health at the Melbourne Brain Centre, as well as a Consultant Neurologist at Austin Health.

Dr Stéphane Epelbaum is a board-certified Neurologist with a PhD in neuroscience, who has helped redefine Alzheimer’s disease (AD) from an unspecific dementia to a distinct clinico-biological entity. For the past 15 years, he has been at the forefront of clinical AD research, participating in over 30 clinical trials. He was also a member of the AramisLab brain data science team, and contributed to the digital modelling of neurodegenerative diseases. Dr Epelbaum has published more than 100 original articles in the field of AD and related disorders, with a focus on timely and accurate diagnosis and the development of new therapeutic options. He has contributed to guidelines as a member of the International Working Group, and to a consensus article on preclinical AD with the National Institute of Aging–Alzheimer Association. In recognition of his clinical research, he received the French Foundation Alzheimer Prize in 2018. Since 2021, he has led the medical affairs neurology team in the international business unit of Eli Lilly and Company, working to address clinical care gaps in neurological disorders.

Professor Yun-Hee Jeon is Professor of Healthy Ageing at The University of Sydney. Trained as a registered nurse in both South Korea and Australia, she has dedicated the past 25 years to advancing the health and wellbeing of older adults in care through research and education. Her work spans evidence-building to knowledge translation, in person-centred dementia care, rehabilitation and workforce development in aged care. Professor Jeon has contributed to numerous national and international dementia-related initiatives, including the WHO’s Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation (Dementia) and their Mental Health Gap Action Programme update (Dementia module). She was also recognised as one of the UN’s Healthy Ageing 50.

Dr Elie Matar is a Consultant Neurologist and dual-trained Sleep Physician based at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, as well as a Translational Clinician-Scientist supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership grant and Horizon Fellowship at The University of Sydney. He has developed subspecialty expertise in movement disorders and cognitive neurology through an Endeavour research fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK, and dedicated clinical fellowships and visitorships at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, UK, and the Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA. Dr Matar currently leads a translational, multidisciplinary research program investigating the phenomenology, pathophysiology and progression of symptoms of synuclein-based diseases, including idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder, Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, on which he is considered a leading authority. His recent interests include the interplay between sleep and the manifestation and progression of disabling neurodegenerative symptoms. Despite being in the early stages of his career, Dr Matar has secured over A$5 million in grant funding supporting methods spanning neuroimaging, sleep neurophysiology, neuropathology, actigraphy, clinical phenotyping and clinical trials.

Professor Lily Xiao is an internationally recognised Dementia Caregiver Researcher and one of four key contributors to the WHO iSupport for Dementia program, a skill training program for informal carers of people living with dementia. She has led research teams to adapt the WHO iSupport program in multiple languages tailored for the culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Currently, she is leading a large National Health and Medical Research Council funded project evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a ‘Culturally tailored iSupport model of care’ for people with dementia and their carers from the CALD communities. Professor Xiao is a Fellow of Australian College of Nursing and serves on the Health Ageing Faculty. She is also a Foundation Member of the Australian Hartford Consortium for Gerontological Nursing Excellence. In recognition of her distinguished contributions to research and leadership, she has been awarded the prestigious title of ‘Matthew Flinders Professor’.