Penny Liddell is a motivated pharmacist with a strong and diverse professional background and over 30 years clinical experience in community pharmacy, consultant pharmacy and academia. For the past three and a half years Penny has worked to develop and evolve a full clinical pharmacy service to Hummingbird House, QLD only paediatric hospice and she has been involved with the implementation and roll-out of Voluntary Assisted Dying in Queensland as part of the QVAD Support and Pharmacy Service. Penny is passionate about expanding the role of the pharmacist within a multidisciplinary healthcare team and is actively involved in stakeholder and research groups across the palliative care space.

Maria Cooper is a community pharmacist and third-year PhD candidate at the University of South Australia. She completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy at UniSA in 2014 and her Master of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Queensland in 2021. Her PhD project focuses on investigating the mental wellbeing of Early Career Pharmacists, particularly those in community pharmacy, as well as the potential for peer support to be a stress-mitigating tool.

Strategic and innovative, Brent Bell is exploring new models for expanding community access to communicable disease screening and treatment. Career highlights include strategic roles with WA Dept of Health and Mental Health services, clinical governance, and operations management for remote medical services, and executive leadership in a private prison designed with a restorative justice framework to reduce reoffending. Brent’s current focus on chronic disease management and improving community access to care is creating sustainable changes in standards of practice.

Jonathan Dartnell is a pharmacist with over 25 years of experience in quality use of medicines (QUM) research and implementation while working for organisations dedicated to improving the quality of health care. He is Managing Director of QUM Connect and Co-Director for the Quality Use of Medicines Alliance. For several years he led the development and implementation of national QUM programs for NPS MedicineWise. Previously he led editorial and production teams at Therapeutic Guidelines.

Kym Ramsey is a pharmacist with over 20 years' experience in community pharmacies in the Murrumbidgee region of New South Wales. As a credentialed pharmacist, Kym continues to advocate for medication management reviews as an important approach to improving health outcomes, particularly in rural, regional and remote locations. Kym’s current focus is on education and engagement in the Living Well Your Way Pharmacy Screening Program, which utilises community pharmacists in screening for COPD and Heart Failure. The Program aims to identify at risk patients earlier, referring them for assessment and earlier diagnosis, therefore improving health outcomes and reducing hospitalisations.

Eleisha is a pharmacy technician working in both community pharmacy and with NSW Health. She has over ten years experience in the community prior to commencing a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) at the University of New England for which she is in her third year of study. She is passionate about collaborative health care and contributing to the pharmacy profession's influence on health outcomes both in the community and acute settings.

Alison, FANZCAP (cardiol,edu.), is the Senior Clinical Training & Education Pharmacist at Austin Health, Victoria. She has 13 years of clinical pharmacy experience, predominantly in cardiology and critical care, and is heavily involved in various hospital committees to improve the delivery of quality health care. She is passionate about developing the next generation of pharmacists and is a sessional lecturer and educator for Monash University, La Trobe University and RMIT University.