Craig Rodgers is currently a Senior Staff Specialist in Addiction Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. He has worked as a General Practitioner and Addiction Specialist in the inner suburbs of Sydney since 2000 with roles at the Kirketon Road Centre, East Sydney Doctors and the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre. He is also a conjoint lecturer with the University of NSW and has contributed to registrar and GP training in the areas of Addiction Medicine, HIV and Sexual health.

James is a physician who has extensive experience treating people with a range of drug problems and has been a leader in research and teaching. Working in Addiction Medicine in the UK and Australia, James has developed training programs for doctors in Addiction and was a leading figure in establishing the Chapter of Addiction Medicine and having Addiction Medicine recognised as a specialty in Australia. His major research interest is the treatment of addictive disorders and he has published extensively on opioid dependence, alcohol dependence and novel psychoactive substances.

Maureen Steele is the consumer participation worker at St Vincent’s Hospital Drug & Alcohol Services. She has worked as a drug user advocate since 1992 when she started working at NUAA, and has also worked in the Needle & Syringe Program and at the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre.

Anna McVinish is a clinical nurse consultant working in AOD at St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst and was the FOpIT implementing NUM and nurse clinical lead. Prior to nurse training she worked for over 10 years in the specialist homelessness and community sectors and also works at Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Centre. Anna recently received a Churchill Fellowship to investigate injectable opioid agonist therapy implementation at multiple international sites with a view to best harnessing her findings towards a nursing-led iOT delivery model for the Australian setting.

Jake Rance is a Fellow Research with the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney, graduating from the University of Sydney with a BA (Hons) Class 1 in Social Anthropology and a PhD from Utrecht University. Jake has a long history of working with people who inject drugs, collaborating on a number of highly successful and innovative research projects. Prior to joining the Centre, he worked in harm reduction services in Sydney’s Kings Cross, including five years as the Senior Counsellor at the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre.