Professor Hay is a Psychiatrist and leading international mental health researcher in the field of Eating Disorders. She is Foundation Chair of Mental Health at Western Sydney University (WSU) and Director for Mental Health Research for the South Western Sydney Local Health District. She spent her formative life and professional years in the Greater Wellington region - Te Upoko o Te Ika a Maui where she conducted seminal research on bone loss in people with anorexia nervosa. She has been a senior Investigator on all major randomised controlled trials of therapy for adults with anorexia nervosa in Australia and others in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. She has a unique body of work reporting the point prevalence of eating disorders and their burden in the Australian general population, the only representative population data on eating disorders in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Tania is a Clinical Psychologist experienced in and passionate about the treatment and prevention of eating disorders across the lifespan. Tania's doctoral research explored the development of body image concerns in young children. Tania works with the SCHN Eating Disorders Service (Family Therapy Team) at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.

Ashlea is a clinician-researcher working as a Clinical Psychologist and Research Officer at the InsideOut Institute. Ashlea completed her PhD (University of Sydney) in 2024. Supervised by Prof Maguire, Prof Touyz and Prof Le Grange, Ashlea's PhD explored a multi-site implementation of telehealth-delivered Family-based Treatment (FBT) for adolescents living with AN in rural Australia. Now, Ashlea leads the research evaluation of the national implementation of digital ED pathways into mainstream mental health services for adolescents and adults. She also carries special interests in bridging access gaps, specifically for perinatal eating disorders.