Louise Geddes is a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. Louise currently works on New South Wales NSP Enhanced Data Collection project which collects data from NSP attendees in NSW. Her particular research interest is opioid use among people who inject drugs.

Ms Consuelo Rivas (RN) has been a Research Nurse in SESLHD Drug and Alcohol Services at The Langton Centre for 7 years, working in different projects both in the areas of Clinical Trials and non-Clinical Trials, as well as collaborating with other Local Health Districts in different research projects. Consuelo is currently undertaking a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology, and is particularly interested in the area of Biostatistics and its application within Drug and Alcohol Services.

Joshua Garfield is a research officer for Monash University, based at Turning Point. He received his PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2008, where he studied the behavioural neuroscience of animal learning and memory. Following this, he assisted with several studies of brain stimulation treatments for depression before moving to Melbourne in 2011, where he has managed several studies related to the psychology of opioid dependence and cognitive training treatments for alcohol dependence.

Barbara R. Haight holds the position of Senior Director, Medicines Development Leader in the opioid use disorder therapeutic area at Indivior, Inc. She has 19 years of industry experience in Clinical Development, Clinical Safety and Pharmacovigilance, and Medical Affairs. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina and Doctor of Pharmacy from Mercer University.

Professor Lintzeris has worked as a clinician and researcher in addiction medicine for over 25 years. He is the Director of D&A Services for South East Sydney LHD and Clinical Director of the Lambert Initiative in Cannabinoid Therapeutics at the University of Sydney. He is a leading author of the Australian clinical guidelines for opioid treatment and the Australian Opioid Substitution Training Programme for medical practitioners, and has served as Chief Addiction Medicine Specialist for the NSW Ministry of Health.