Research Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast F.E. “Jack” Putz is a newly appointed research professor at UniSC in the Forest Research Institute. Before joining UniSC he was on the faculty at the University of Florida (UF) where he taught 3 undergraduate and graduate-level courses per year, for which he received numerous teaching awards, and advised more than 50 post-graduate students. Before UF he received his PhD from Cornell University and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia and a high-school biology teacher in Wisconsin. His research focuses on tropical forest conservation through improved management but he’s ventured into other fields including biomechanics, ethnobotany, ecophysiology, and fire ecology; based on his publications, he’s ranked among the world’s top five forestry researchers. In his spare time, he’s surfing and working on a South American prequel to his steamy jungle novel, Borneo Dammed, published under the nom de plume of Juan Camilo Moro.
Chair in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Hertfordshire Professor Schifano is one of the very few physicians with training and specialist qualifications in both psychiatry and clinical pharmacology and has contributed to the biomedical science as well as the clinical science of addiction. He has also made a significant contribution to several areas in addiction psychiatry and general psychiatry, including: stimulant synthetic drugs, mortality studies (Professor Schifano co-supervises and co-leads the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (npSAD)), the internet and drugs. This is a new area of research and Professor Schifano is the Principal Investigator of the third consecutive EU Commission-funded, multi-centre Psychonaut/ReDNet research programme. Results from these studies have provided the only comprehensive and multilingual analysis of the information available online on psychoactive compounds to date.
Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University Farah Magrabi is a Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. She has a background in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering and is an expert in the design and evaluation of digital health and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for clinicians and consumers. She is currently investigating the safety and effectiveness of AI systems in real-world healthcare settings. Professor Magrabi is internationally recognised as a leader in the safety of digital health and has made major contributions to documenting the patient safety risks of digital health and AI technologies. Her research has changed practice to detect IT risks to patients and has shaped policy to address digital health safety in Australia and overseas including a new specification by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/TS 20405) for the surveillance and analysis of safety events. She is an inaugural recipient of the Sax Institute’s Research Action Award (2015) and Telstra Health’s Brilliant Women in Digital Health award (2021).
Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Fayez Hammad teaches courses on Middle East politics, International relations of the Middle East and Arab-Israeli Conflict.
PhD candidate, University of Sydney Fiona is a hospital pharmacist with over 12 years of clinical experience. She has worked in the field of infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship since 2013. After completing a Bachelor of Pharmacy, and a Master of Public Health specialising in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Control, Fiona is now a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Her PhD thesis is on interventions that improve antimicrobial use, under the supervision of Professor Andrew McLachlan AM. Fiona is currently on secondment at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care revising the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard. Her permanent position is as the Senior Pharmacist (Antimicrobial Stewardship) at Concord Repatriation General Hospital in Sydney.
Professeur en sciences forestière, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) Fabio Gennaretti est professeur à l'Institut de recherche sur les forêts de l'UQAT (IRF) et membre du Groupe de Recherche en Écologie de la MRC-Abitibi (GREMA). Depuis 2022, il est aussi titulaire de la Chaire de Recherche du Canada en dendroécologie et dendroclimatologie. Son laboratoire étudie les changements climatiques et leurs impacts, ainsi que les processus écologiques et écophysiologiques en forêt boréale.
