Professor Claire Palermo is the Director of the Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education. Claire has dedicated to her career to a program of research and practice on preparing health professionals to improve the health of communities and to developing evidence to translate change health professions education practice. She works within her own discipline of dietetics and interprofessionally with Monash University partners and beyond to improve the quality of health professions education through improving the evidence on competency-based education.

Professor Michelle Leech is Head of the Medical Course Monash University and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Michelle is the Head of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinic at Monash Health. Michelle is the outgoing chair of the Clinical Examination Committee of the RACP National Exam Panel of the College of Physicians. Michelle was the Medical Director of Arthritis Australia in 2014 and continues as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee. She is the Vice President of MDANZ, Chair of the Board of the PMCV and Chair of the Medication Safety and Therapeutics Committee at Monash Health.

She received her MBBS (Hons) from Monash University, and after residency training in Internal Medicine at Prince Henry’s Hospital, Melbourne, completed her advanced physician training at Monash Health. She undertook a PhD at the Monash University Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, which examined the role of the cytokine MIF in the neuroendocrine regulation of inflammation. Her research interests include cytokine biology, glucocorticoid action and cell cycle proteins in the context of rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis.

Michelle has held many teaching roles in Medicine at Monash Health including Director of Physician Training as well as teaching roles at Monash University. She has received a number of teaching awards including the Australian Medical Students Association National Teaching award in 2014. She was the recipient of Health Workforce Australia funding to develop Health Science Interprofessional Learning (IPL) opportunities across disciplines at Monash University and Monash Health.

Professor Shajahan Yasin joined Monash University Malaysia full-time in October 2005. He was previously the Chief Medical Officer to the largest private General Practice Group in the country with over 100 doctors, where he was involved in quality improvement initiatives and audit of practice. He spent three years in the Department of Community Medicine and General Practice at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria between 1996 and 1999 as a lecturer where he was involved in Primary Care Research and Clinical Epidemiology. He was the Chairman of the Vocational Training Program (VTP) at the Academy of Family Physicians for seven years from 1988 to 1996, and was instrumental in converting the VTP program into a distance learning program. He supervises HDR students workingin these areas.

Shah is also a Director of the South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO), which is an internationally funded project based on the highly successful Demographic and Health Surveillance Systems (DHSS) in other countries. SEACO is based in the town of Segamat in Johor, Malaysia.

Professor Shane Bullock is the Head of School of Monash Rural Health, Australia’s oldest and largest rural clinical school. In this role, Professor Bullock leads the educational, research and engagement activities of the School to improve health outcomes for rural and regional communities.

Professor Bullock has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and a PhD in pharmacology from Monash University. He has been involved in training future health professionals in regional settings for more than two decades, in Far North Queensland and across Victoria. Before his current appointment, Professor Bullock served as Director of Monash Rural Health Churchill and Deputy Head of School of Rural Health, overseeing the foundational year of the Monash graduate entry medical program and led improvements to the program’s curriculum, assessment and delivery.

Professor Bullock’s research interests focus on pharmacology and pathophysiology education for health professionals, as well as digital strategies in health and medical education. He is the co-author of three Australian textbooks: Fundamentals of Pharmacology, Principles of Pathophysiology and Psychopharmacology for Health Professionals. Professor Bullock’s work has been published in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, Health Education Journal and Medical Education.