Biography

Daniel is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Bayside Health and Eastern Health in Victoria, and an honorary adjunct research fellow at Monash University. He is currently in the final stages of an epidemiology-focused PhD through the Monash University School of Translational Medicine, studying the impact of liver and gastroenterological disease in older Australians. In 2026, he will undertake a research visit at the Karolinska Institutet to optimise and refine epidemiological tools used to predict incident liver disease in older persons. Through this project, he will both develop skills to bring home and also build long-lasting international collaborations.

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I am a rheumatologist and clinician-scientist at the University of Melbourne, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and the Alfred Hospital Melbourne. My research focusses on the impact of rare rheumatic diseases on individuals and defining the cardiopulmonary manifestations of autoimmune disease. I have developed expertise in complex data analysis, multidisciplinary collaborative research, and the resource-efficient repurposing of existing datasets to address key questions in rare rheumatic diseases, including novel collaborative postmortem studies of scleroderma, lupus and sarcoidosis. My research contribution has been recognised nationally through the Australian Rheumatology Association Early Career Research Excellence Award, the Australian Rheumatology Association Best Clinical Poster Presentation Award (2025), the St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne Junior Investigator Award (2024), and the Australian Rheumatology Association Vic-Tas Best Clinical Abstract Award (2024). I am actively engaged in public rheumatology outpatient care and the supervision and teaching of junior doctors to facilitate interest and engagement in both research and rheumatology.

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I am a Medical Oncologist and PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney, and current Common Sense Oncology Fellow in Cancer Policy at Queen’s University, Canada. The primary theme of my research is trying to improve the lived experience of cancer care by understanding and improving decisions, treatment, and systems around cancer care.

My current focus is in understanding the 'work' of living with cancer and how health professionals and systems can provide higher quality, less disruptive healthcare. My PhD research uses mixed-methods to study how patients experience the time burdens of cancer care (“time toxicity”) and how these influence treatment decisions and preferences. In my work with Common Sense Oncology, I will lead projects evaluating time toxicity in real-world practice using large population databases in Ontario, and co-design an intervention to improve shared decision-making and goal-concordant care in the last twelve months of life. 

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Dr Joanne Eng-Frost is an early career advanced heart failure cardiologist. She holds a Bachelor of Biomedical Science with First Class Honours from the University of Adelaide, and a Doctor of Medicine from Flinders University. Since becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2022, Dr Eng-Frost has undertaken a PhD focused on advancing non-invasive monitoring in acute heart failure to enable earlier detection of clinical deterioration. Dr Eng-Frost completed advanced heart failure and transplantation training at The Alfred Hospital in 2025, and will commence an advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and transplantation fellowship at University Health Network Toronto in 2026. On her return, Dr Eng-Frost aims to establish a statewide Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock Service in South Australia, integrating research, clinical expertise, and health system leadership skills to improve outcomes for patients with severe heart failure.

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Dr Sinjini Biswas is an interventional cardiologist at Royal Melbourne Hospital. She holds subspecialty expertise in complex coronary intervention, intravascular imaging, and coronary physiology assessment, with advanced fellowship training completed in the United Kingdom.

Dr Biswas has an extensive research background in clinical trials and outcomes research, and is currently completing an MSc in Clinical Trials at the University of Oxford. She completed a PhD in 2020 at Monash University, supported by scholarships from the National Heart Foundation and NHMRC. She has also recently completed a 2-year National Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Aligning with her clinical expertise, her current research focuses on the use of intracoronary imaging to optimise PCI results in acute myocardial infarction as well as in bifurcation PCI. Her goal is to setup a large intracoronary imaging trial in Australia, and also use an existing large UK OCT registry to validate predictors of complications in bifurcation PCI.