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Anne Sved Williams is a perinatal and infant Psychiatrist  and for 24 years has been the medical unit head of Helen Mayo House, the mother-infant public inpatient unit in Adelaide. She is a clinical senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide.  Anne began her professional life as a GP and has a particular interest in teaching at the primary care level.  She is co-editor with Vicki Cowling of “Infants of Parents with Mental Illness: Developmental, Clinical, Cultural and Personal Perspectives."

Dr Carol Newnham is a neuropsychologist who works with both the Parent Infant Research Centre which develops evidence based interventions for mothers and infants and the Victorian Infant Brain Studies Group, which focuses primarily on relationships between neural and functional development in at risk infants.  Dr Newnham's research studies have involved assessing an intervention delivered to mothers of hospitalised pre-term infants in terms of itss effect on infant development.  She recently developed a measure of accumulated stress in hospitalised pre-term infants.  In addition to research work Dr Newnham publishes a quarterly magazine for parents of pre-term infants known as "premmiepress" now in its 11th year, which presents recent and pertinent research results, theories and intervention from different disciplines for parents and professionals.

Associate  Professor Caroline Zanetti is a perinatal, child and infant Psychiatrist at Notre Dame University, Fremantle. She has led St John of God Subiaco, Raphael Centre as Director of Psychiatry since it's foundation in 2003. Her focus has been on the infant-parent relationship, and on working psychotherapeutically with parents in a way that includes reflection on attachment relationships.

She is also an accredited Circle od Security Supervisor, and has considerable expertise in this model. Her research interest is on the transition to parenthood. Other interests include developing innovative programs for engaging hard-to-reach groups within the field of perinatal and infant mental health.

Birgit has a PhD from the University Melbourne, which focused on identifying the cellular receptor for rotavirus. Following her PhD, she worked in an Research & Development role for animal vaccines, mostly on experiments to ensure quality of the viral and cellular components of the vaccines. In 2002, she took on a regulatory affairs role, before transitioning to the medical department of GSK in 2003. Since then she has supported many paediatric vaccines listed on the National Immunisation Program, via medical/scientific input for various projects including regulatory, health outcomes, and tender submissions. Her current role is the Sothern Region National Immunisation Program Manager.