Dr Corin Miller is a Rural Generalist with advanced skills in Paediatrics and Child Health. She was Rural Health Pro 2023 National Rural/Remote Health Professional of the Year and brings her passion for strengthening paediatric primary care, including collaborative care, in rural Australia to AADPA. As chair of the Djing.gii Gudjaagalali Working Group, Corin established a novel model of school-based integrated care on the Far South Coast of NSW. Developed in direct response to community needs, Corin got the local stakeholders on board and co-designed a model of care to operate within the school environment to increase access for the community. In doing so, Corin’s innovative clinic won a personal endorsement from the NSW Health Minister.

Dr Roger Paterson, MB BS, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, Cert. Child & Adol. Psych, has been active in the field of child, adolescent and adult ADHD for many years. In the public sector from 1989 to 1996 in child psychiatry, and in full-time general child and adult private practice thereafter, with the last few years being mostly an ADHD practice across the lifespan.

Dr Sciberras has worked in the area of ADHD for 15 years and has been recognised by the Australian Institute for Policy and Science for her achievements. She holds a National Health & Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship focused on the development of evidence-based behavioural interventions to improve outcomes for young people with ADHD. Emma is committed to reducing the stigma associated with ADHD and disseminating evidence-based information about the disorder to the general community. Her strong track record in ADHD research (>80 publications, ~$7M in research funding) has proven invaluable in advocating for funding and in supporting AADPA’s activities more broadly.

Lou Brown is a PhD Candidate at Curtin University, an ADHD consumer advisor for Deakin University, an accredited but non-practising registered nurse and ADHD coach, and a lived-experience advocate. Lou is passionate about ensuring individuals with ADHD receive evidence-based care that facilitates the development of self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-compassion, along with the knowledge and skills required to live a full and rewarding life and thrive with ADHD.

Dr Poulton is a paediatrician with more than 20 years of experience specialising in treating children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Sally works at Nepean Hospital, at Penrith Child and Youth Mental Health Service and in private practice in Penrith. She is also an academic and senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. Dr Poulton has been studying the effects of stimulant medication in children with ADHD since 1996 and the long-term effects of ADHD and stimulant medication at a population level.

Dr John Kramer is a practising GP in Woolgoola, NSW with a special interest in Developmental Paediatrics, Indigenous Health, Mental Health, Medical Education and Refugee health. Dr Kramer has lectured at the University of NSW Rural Clinical School, the University of NSW School of Community Medicine and at the Newcastle University Faculty of Medicine. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at UNSW Australia Rural Clinical School Coffs Harbour and is Chair of the Rural Doctors Network Provost of the National Rural Faculty within the Royal Australian College of GPs. In 2017, he was presented with an OAM for services to the medicine as a GP in regional areas by Governor-General David Hurley.

Dr Montgomery is a specialist in developmental and behavioural Paediatrics with an interest in transdiagnostic neurodevelopmental clinical practice and research. She led an interdisciplinary project for the Sydney Local Health District on new models of care for ADHD and ran pharmacological clinical trials in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Tourette Syndrome for the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. Alicia is a member of the Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australasia and represents the NBPSA on the Royal Australian College of Physicians’ Committee for Community Child Health.

Professor Middeldorp’s research focuses on the role of genetic and other familial factors in the development and persistence of common psychiatric symptoms in childhood, including ADHD. She also investigates the role of parental mental health problems, on the outcome of psychiatric symptoms in a clinical cohort and will perform a trial to study whether addressing parental mental health also improves the outcome for the children. Christel is committed to facilitating patient advocacy, increasing stakeholder representation and establishing an essential large network to investigate ADHD on the large scale that is necessary to identify biomarkers.

Assoc Prof. Tim Silk is a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in paediatric neurodevelopmental imaging in order to understand the brain-behaviour interface; when and where that goes awry. Tim heads the Brain and Cognitive Development Lab, and currently leads The Neuroimaging of the Children’s Attention Project (NICAP) collecting longitudinal multimodal neuroimaging data in order to understand how brain structure and function change across late childhood to early adolescence for children with and without ADHD, and how those changes reflect ADHD symptom severity and functional outcomes.

Dr Paul Hutchins is a Senior Paediatric Consultant to The Children’s Hospital Education Research Institute, which he helped establish, an Honorary Medical Officer at the Children’s Hospital, Westmead and an Honorary Associate at Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. Paul has over 35 years of tertiary developmental practice and collaboration with educators, parents, support groups and health professionals. He has contributed to Australian and international guidelines for ADHD management and chaired the Stimulant Subcommittee NSW for nearly 20 years.

Michele works in private practice as a specialist ADHD coach. Trained as a teacher, she developed a special interest in students who learn differently, which ultimately led her to ADHD coaching. She has spent 20 years’ in ADHD Advocacy on a state and national level and has strong connections to community, academic and professional networks. Michele worked with others to form the national consumer advocacy group ADHD Australia and was a member of their inaugural board. Michele is committed to evidence-based approaches, coaching adults, adolescents and children. Michele also trains coaches as a faculty member of the ADD Coach Academy in New York and is a registered mentor coach.

Vicki is a paediatric neuropsychologist with over 30 years of experience. She has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals, as well as four books and has obtained competitive research grants totalling over $20 million. Her research focuses on improving our understanding of childhood-acquired brain injury, chronic illness and neurodevelopmental disorders. She is an NHMRC Senior Practitioner Fellow, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia, the Australian Psychological Society and the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment.

Daryl is a paediatrician who has worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital for over 25 years and currently holds appointments as a general paediatrician in the Department of General Medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital, senior lecturer in the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, and senior research fellow in the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Daryl is active in research, particularly into ADHD, and is one of the lead investigators of the longitudinal Children’s Attention Project.