Kelsee is a Research Officer and Registered Nurse at the NSW FASD Diagnostic Service, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. With a PhD in neonatal physiology, she supports multidisciplinary FASD assessments, rural outreach, and research focused on service innovation for young people and adolescents with FASD.

Lauren Jones is an Aboriginal Care Navigator at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, working alongside families to ensure culturally safe, respectful and accessible healthcare. She supports Aboriginal children and families by strengthening communication with clinicians and creating patient centred, non clinical pathways through the health system.

Associate Professor Leigh Haysom has worked and advocated for young people in the criminal justice system for two decades. With most young people in custody being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, her approach to everything is through a culturally sensitive lens. Leigh’s background is in paediatrics, adolescent medicine and public health and she collaborates with young people and colleagues on research focused on sexual health, virtual oral care, FASD, Australian models of care for youth in custody and the ear research she is presenting today.

Dr Elizabeth Tee is a paediatrician undertaking post-fellowship training in Adolescent Medicine. She is the Marie Bashir Clinical Research Fellow at the Department of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney exploring longitudinal mental health outcomes in gender and sexuality diverse adolescents.

Since joining ARACY in 2017, Lauren has worked on evidence reviews of children’s sense of identity and culture and for the National Early Language and Literacy Strategy, and is currently working on a research project examining the needs and strengths of middle years young people (8-14 years) in Western Sydney. Before ARACY, she spent over eight years at the Australian Institute of Criminology, focusing on human trafficking and slavery. She’s passionate about using research to inform policy and has experience in both qualitative and quantitative methods. She’s currently a PhD candidate at UNSW (School of Education).

Dr Natalie Shearer is completing Advanced Training in General Paediatrics, Community Child Health, and Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine (AYAM). She is committed to ongoing involvement in AYAM healthcare, research, and advocacy, and has a strong interest in medical education and mentoring medical students and junior doctors.

Professor Susan M Sawyer AM MBBS MD FRACP FAAHMS holds the chair of Adolescent Health at The University of Melbourne and is director of the Centre for Adolescent Health, a WHO collaborating centre for adolescent health at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.