PLENARY SPEAKER
Professor Frances Hayes
Professor Frances Hayes is Interim Chief of Endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. She attended medical school at University College Dublin, Ireland, and completed her residency in internal medicine and endocrine fellowship at St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin followed by subspecialty training in reproductive endocrinology at MGH. Her clinical practice includes men and women with the full spectrum of reproductive disorders. She has a specific intertest in male hypogonadism and is a co-author of the Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guidelines on testosterone therapy in men. She has also focused on enhancing the care of patients with genetic disorders of reproduction including Turner syndrome and Klinefelter syndrome by coordinating a multidisciplinary team approach to their management. She has been a recipient of multiple awards including the Vigersky Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award of the Endocrine Society presented in recognition of outstanding contributions by a practicing endocrinologist to the endocrine and medical community.
symposium speakers
A/Prof Chiang is a dual qualified endocrinologist and chemical pathologist. She is the Head of Chemical Pathology at Melbourne Health, the Head of Bone at Austin Health, Endocrine partner at ENETS Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, ANZBMS Councillor and RACP Council Member (Endocrinology and Chemical Pathology representative).
Associate Professor Cherie Chiang
Melbourne Health
Professor Susan R Davis AO, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, FAHMS is Director, Monash University Women’s Health Research Program, Head of the Women’s Endocrine Clinic, Alfred Hospital Melbourne and consultant Endocrinologist Cabrini Medical Centre.
She is an internationally recognised expert on sex hormones and ageing, including menopause and its health sequelae (>470 publications). Her epidemiological research across the adult female lifespan focuses on determinants of physical, psychological and sexual wellbeing. Her clinical trials program has led to paradigm shifts in the understanding of testosterone in women, with current trials examining the role of hormones on cardiometabolic health, cognition, musculoskeletal health, and sexual function. She has received numerous prestigious research awards, most recently the Elizabeth Blackburn Award of the NHMRC (2023), Ross Hohnen Award of the Australian Heart Foundation (2022), and the RACP College Medal (2022). Professor Davis is a past President of the International Menopause and the Australasian Menopause Societies and is an Executive Council Member of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. She is an Advisor to the National Women’s Health Council Australia and to the NHS Menopause Improvement Programme Steering Committee (UK).
Professor Susan R Davis
Alfred Hospital Melbourne
Associate Professor Warrick Inder is an Endocrinologist and clinical researcher at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. He graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1988 and completed his MD examining the effects of opioid peptides on ACTH secretion. Following a 2-year post-doc at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA he returned as a consultant Endocrinologist to Christchurch Hospital, NZ. In 2001, he moved to Australia, working for 10 years at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. He relocated to Brisbane in 2011, where he is currently an eminent staff specialist at Princess Alexandra Hospital and associate professor with the University of Queensland. He has broad research interests including pituitary, adrenal and reproductive endocrinology. He is an ESA past-president and was presented with an ESA Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award in 2021, and ESA honorary life member in 2022.
Associate Professor Warrick Inder
The Princess Alexandra Hospital
Richard MacIsaac is a clinician-researcher who is currently Professor and Director of Endocrinology and Diabetes at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is also the diabetes kidney disease co-stream leader for the Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations (ACADI), University of Melbourne. He has been a principal investigator for numerous diabetes clinical trials related to cardiovascular and kidney outcomes, including the landmark LEADER, SUSTAIN 6, CANVAS R, SCORED, FIGARO, FIDELIO and FLOW studies. His main research interest is diabetes and its acute and chronic complications, especially those related to cardiovascular and kidney disease. He has published over 300 research articles. His current specific research interests include inpatient glycaemic control, defining the albuminuria and glomerular filtration rate relationship in diabetes, investigating new biomarkers for kidney and vascular disease in diabetes and studying kidney function in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Professor Richard MacIsaac
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Professor Robert McLachlan, AM, FRACP, PhD. Consultant Andrologist to the Monash IVF Group for the past 30 years and is Director of Clinical Research, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, in Melbourne. His clinical and research interests include male reproductive endocrinology, the genetics of male infertility, the optimal use of assisted reproduction and the follow up on ART offspring health. He has published >250 original papers and is Co-Editor of the Male Reproduction Section, www.ENDOTEXT.org. He is an Honorary Life Member of the FSANZ and Endocrine Society of Australia, and a past President of FSANZ. He has been Medical Director of Healthy Male since 2006, the Federal Government initiative in community & professional education in male reproductive health. In 2016 was made a Member in the Order of Australia for services to medicine and endocrinology.
Professor Robert McLachlan
Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Dr Christopher Rowe is an adult endocrinologist at John Hunter Hospital in NSW. He has an active clinical practice in thyroid disease, contributes to guidelines, and is chair of the Hunter-New England Thyroid Cancer MDT. Chris performs thyroid ultrasound, parathyroid localisation, lymph node mapping and thyroid biopsy as part of his clinical practice. Chris’ doctoral studies were on nerve growth factors driving thyroid oncogenesis, and his current research explores decision support and quality of life for patients with thyroid cancer.
Dr Christopher Rowe
John Hunter Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor Amanda Vincent is a clinician researcher combining clinical practice in menopause with menopause related research, translation and education. She is lead endocrinologist with over 20 years experience in the Menopause clinics at Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, including the Early menopause and Turner Syndrome long-term care clinics. She is Head of Early Menopause Research, Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation https://mchri.org.au/ ), Monash University and co-leads the Early menopause stream, NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Women’s Health in Reproductive life (https://whirlcre.edu.au/). She has publications and successful grant funding in projects, including the Healthtalk Australia Early menopause digital resource and Ask Early menopause App (www.askearlymenopause.org), and currently co-chairs the international guideline group to update the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology premature ovarian insufficiency guideline. Clinical A/Professor Vincent is Past President of the Australasian Menopause Society and current board member of the International Menopause Society.
Clinical Associate Professor Amanda Vincent
Monash Health
Professor Beverley Vollenhoven AM is the Carl Wood Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University, the Director of Gynaecology and Research at Monash Health and a senior clinician at Monash IVF. She is a certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist. In 2019 she was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women and in 2021 she was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. She has a long track record of successful research collaborations in the area of IVF and Embryo Implantation, Endometriosis, Uterine Fibroids, PCOS and other ovarian disorders.
Professor Beverley Vollenhoven
Monash University