Dr Stella Sarlos MBBS, BSc(Hons), PhD, FRACP | Specialist contractor

Stella is a Consultant Endocrinologist in the departments of Diabetes and Endocrinology at Monash Health and Peninsula Health, and in Clinical Andrology at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research. She is Director of Clinical Training at Monash Health and the Monash University Medical Student Coordinator (Yr3) at the Peninsula Clinical School. She is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Medicine, Monash University. In her role as Co-Convener of the Endocrine Society of Australia’s Seminar Conference she is focused on the education of Endocrinology Advanced Trainees. To support her developing expertise in medical education, she is completing a Master of Clinical Education at the University of Melbourne.

Clinical Professor Jane Holmes-Walker FRACP | Chair

Jane was appointed as a Staff Specialist to Westmead Hospital in 1998 and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Sydney University. She was Chair of the Advanced training Committee in Endocrinology from 2019-2022 and previously an Executive of the Australian Diabetes Society from 2015-2021.She manages more than 300 people on insulin pump therapy across all age groups including patients who use continuous glucose monitoring full time. She is one of the lead clinicians involved in islet cell transplant therapy for people with severe hypoglycaemia unawareness since it was first performed in Australia in 2002 and she has supervised over 150 islet transplant grafts.

Jane is also an investigator for the Australasian Diabetes Data Network which collects longitudinal data on youth and adults with type I diabetes across the life span and outcomes of introduction of universal funding for CGM in Australia. She has developed models of care for young adults with chronic health conditions for the ACI Transition Network and for young people with diabetes. She is actively involved in clinical research in type I diabetes and an author of over 70 peer reviewed publications.

Professor Roderick Clifton-Bligh FRACP | Deputy Chair

Roderick Clifton-Bligh is Head of the Department of Endocrinology at Royal North Shore Hospital, and conjoint professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney. He trained in medicine at the University of Sydney before completing a PhD in the genetics of thyroid disorders at the University of Cambridge in 1998. He returned to Sydney to complete his FRACP in 2004 and was then appointed as Staff Specialist in Endocrinology at Royal North Shore Hospital. He heads the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at the Kolling Institute and direct twin research programs in Endocrine Neoplasia (Phaeochromocytoma/ paraganglioma syndromes, Thyroid Cancer, Adrenal Cancer, Pituitary Tumours) and Metabolic Bone Disease (calcium-sensing receptor function in health and disease, and FGF-23 regulation of vitamin D metabolism).

He was admitted to Fellowship of Faculty of Science (The Royal College of Pathologists of Australia) in 2011. He has co-authored 225 publications in peer-reviewed journals with >6,000 citations. He has supervised 14 completed PhDs, including both basic science and clinical focused work. His work has been recognized by awards from NSW Cancer Institute (2013), Asia-Oceania Thyroid Association (2014) and the Endocrine Society of Australia Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award (2021). He was a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee in Endocrinology in RACP from 2004-2012 (as chair, 2010-2012) and the College Research Committee 2013-2022.

Dr Lachlan Angus FRACP

Dr Lachlan Angus is an endocrinologist in private practice and with public appointments at Austin Health and Northern Health, Victoria. He has subspecialist clinical interests of reproductive endocrinology and transgender health and is a PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne.

Associate Professor Damon Bell FRACP

Damon Bell is a dual trained Endocrinologist and Chemical Pathologist with subspecialty expertise in the diagnosis and management of inherited and acquired cardiometabolic disorders and hypertension. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Otago and Fellowships of both the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and Royal Australasian College of Physicians while working in New Zealand. Damon was awarded a PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2016 for his these “Optimising strategies for the detection of familial hypercholesterolaemia”. His research expertise encompasses the clinical, pathologic and genetic aspects of cardiometabolic medicine, particularly lipid disorders and endocrine hypertension with national and international collaborations. He remains actively involved with teaching and is currently supervising PhD and Master candidates in the cardiometabolic field. Damon has a sessional appointment with PathWest Laboratory Medicine where he works in both chemical and cardiovascular genetic pathology diagnosing inherited lipid and hypertensive conditions. He also works in the Cardiometabolic service at Royal Perth Hospital as a Physician/Clinical Academic with the University of Western Australia. Damon coordinates the statewide adrenal vein sampling service for primary hyperaldosteronism for Western Australia based at Royal Perth Hospital. Additionally, Damon works as a Chemical Pathologist for Clinipath (Sonic) Pathology and has a private clinical practice at the WA Specialist Clinic. His clinical practice focuses on with inherited and acquired cardiometabolic disorders with a particular interest in familial hypercholesterolaemia and Primary Aldosteronism.

Dr Joanna Gong

Joanna is an endocrinology registrar trained at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Western Health, and a PhD candidate at the Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute. She has an active role in basic physician trainee education, and has mentored and given lectures and tutorials for Monash and Melbourne University medical students. Joanna has previously held multiple leadership roles for 5 years in the VESPA (Vertical Learning) Committee for the Monash University medical school and was a member of the Eastern Health Eczema School Committee. She has delivered workshops for St John’s Ambulance and Melbourne Health, been a guest speaker on the medical education podcast Reviva, contributed to the writing and updating of multiple clinical health service guidelines and been a peer-reviewer for two medical journals.

Dr Annabelle Hobbs

Annabelle is an advanced trainee in Paediatric Endocrinology and Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, in her final year of training. She is currently an Endocrinology Fellow at Queensland Children's Hospital and previously worked in South Australia and New South Wales. Annabelle is also a trainee representative on the Australia and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Endocrinology Training subcommittee. She joins the curriculum review group to promote paediatric endocrinology trainee interests.

Dr Diane Jensen FRACP

Diane attained her Fellowship of the RACP in Paediatric Endocrinology in 2011 and her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2016. Currently, she is a Senior Staff Specialist at the Queensland Children's Hospital and the Gold Coast University Hospital. Diane has multiple interests including bone health in children and adolescents, growth and pubertal disorders including pituitary disorders and disorders of sex development. She is also passionate about the use of diabetes technologies in optimising the management of diabetes in childhood.

Additionally, Diane is an active member of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (ANZSPED) and had the opportunity to coordinate the ANZSPED Fellow's School from 2019-2022 and represented ANZSPED on the faculty for the Global Fellows School in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2023. Diane also serves as a paediatric representative on the RACP ATC in Endocrinology and co-chair of the ANZSPED Training subcommittee.

Professor Katherine Samaras FRACP

Katherine is a Senior Staff Specialist in Endocrinology at St. Vincent's Sydney, and she serves as the Laboratory Head for Obesity, Clinical Nutrition, and Adipose Biology at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Katherine also led the NHMRC funded MetMemory Study—investigating the potential benefits of metformin in individuals with mild cognitive impairment, in the absence of diabetes.

Katherine currently is a consultant Endocrinologist at St. Vincent's Clinic and Private Hospital and chaired the SAC Endocrinology at RACP, establishing the first training curriculum for endocrinology. Furthermore, Katherine is actively engaged in grant assessment committees for NHMRC and is a Franklin Women mentor. She is also a supervisor for advanced trainees, PhD students, and medical students. Additionally, her portfolio includes her role as Chief Editor for Frontiers in Obesity, Director and Founder of the Australian Centre for Metabolic Health, and co-investigator in the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study. 

Associate Professor Vasant Shenoy FRACP

Vasant is a senior staff specialist in Endocrinology and Joint-Director of Physician Education (DPE) at the Townsville University Hospital.  He completed his undergraduate and post-graduate training in Internal Medicine from Mumbai, India. He has trained across various hospitals in Sydney, regional NSW, Darwin and Brisbane as part of Fellowship training (FRACP) before joining Townsville in 2012. He holds certification in Obstetric Medicine with SOMANZ and Medical Education from Dundee (UK) and has clinical experience across public and private spheres in general endocrinology with special interests in reproductive endocrinology, pre-conception & obstetric medicine, and diabetes technology.

Vasant led the formation of the Physician Training Unit in Townsville since 2015. He played a key role in adopting the competency-based curriculum for basic physician training in Townsville and been involved in education initiatives to improve the standards of physician training in the North QLD network. He served on various committees, co-ordinated bedside clinical skills and reasoning for Y4 MBBS with James Cook University and is on the National Examiner Panel (NEP) for the RACP. He is currently based in Adelaide, working as an endocrinologist in private practice and reproductive endocrinology with Flinders Fertility. He loves spending time with his family and travelling, cooking, and reading fiction novels in his spare time.

Dr Shubha Srinivasan FRACP

Shubha is a senior staff specialist in paediatric endocrinology and a co-director of The Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Clinical Associate Professor in the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Sydney. Her interests encompass paediatric endocrinology including differences of sex development, lipids, pituitary disorders, and type 1 diabetes. Shubha trained in paediatrics in the UK and paediatric endocrinology in Sydney.

Her PhD awarded in 2007 was on “Insulin resistance and features of the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents”. She has been a member of writing groups including recent guidelines for the care of children with familial hypercholesterolaemia. Shubha is on the Australia and New Zealand Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (ANZSPED) council and is the co-chair of the ANZSPED training subcommittee. Shubha has supervised trainees in paediatric endocrinology for over 15 years and is passionate about training and curriculum. She has represented ANZSPED on the RACP ATC endocrinology since October 2019 and has successfully advocated for site accreditation for paediatric endocrinology which will commence in 2024.

Dr Tom Wilkinson FRACP

Tom is a recently qualified Fellow, having completed training in Adult Endocrinology earlier this year. He is based in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, where he is working full time on a PhD investigating fully-automated closed loop systems in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. He is currently completing a term as co-chair of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Trainees Committee and deputy chair of the College Trainees Committee. Outside of clinical medicine, Tom plays trumpet in multiple community orchestras and helps organise the New Zealand Doctors' Orchestra. He also enjoys exploring the outdoors through landscape photography, tramping, and skiing.