Tamara Smith is a registered psychologist who is currently the Senior Clinical Coordinator of the Queensland Prison Mental Health Service. Tamara’s career began with Queensland Corrective Services at Moreton, Wacol and Wolston Correctional Centres before commencing work in forensic mental health. Tamara has previously worked in the High Secure Inpatient Services at The Park – Centre for Mental Health and the Community Forensic Outreach Service.  Tamara has a special interest in FASD, intellectual disability, cognitive impairment and dual disability and works collaboratively with the Specialist Disability Services Assessment and Outreach Team.

Dr Janet Hammill coordinates the Collaboration for Alcohol Related Developmental Disorders (CARDD) formerly the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Research Network within the Perinatal Research Group at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research. An ethnographer, Jan weaves narratives of family history of health and life experiences into an evidence based research framework that better illustrates the epigenetic and developmental burden placed on families. Of particular interest is the neurobiology of stress and teratogenic exposures that have influenced negative trajectories especially for Indigenous families and their children.

Alan White is a Clinical Nurse Consultant of over 25 years experience who currently works in the Specialist Disability Assessment and Outreach Team of the Queensland Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services. Alan is an accredited trainer in the FASD Neuro Behavioural model with the Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Consultation, Education and Training Services, Inc. (FASCETS). Alan has completed SAMSHA’s FASD Centre for Excellence FASD course, focusing on FASD and Juvenile Justice and Adolescent Disposition. Alan has completed masterclass training with N.O.F.A.S.D. (National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders) and also presents their prevention resources on FASD.

Dr Vinesh Gupta is a dually trained Child and Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatrist. After qualifying in India, Vinesh obtained his FRCPsych and dual Certificate of Completion of Training in the UK. In 2008, Dr Gupta moved to Canada and was a consultant to a secure Adolescent Forensic Unit and was the Program Director for the Child and Youth Mental Health Service at the University of Alberta.  Vinesh was part of the Alberta FASD network and is trained in the 4-digit Diagnostic Code for FASD from Seattle, Washington. In March 2017, Vinesh became a staff specialist in the Child and Youth Forensic Outreach Service of Queensland Health.

Dr Paul White is the Clinical Director of the Specialist Disability Services  Assessment and Outreach Team of the Queensland Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services. In 1979, as a medical student, Paul was first involved in supporting people who were homeless. With six book chapters and 42 peer reviewed articles mostly on the themes of seriously mentally ill or intellectually disabled offenders, Paul was a contributing editor to the Schizophrenia Module of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and oversaw the completion of 53 systematic reviews and meta-analyses of health care interventions in schizophrenia.

Dr Scott Harden is a child, adolescent and adult forensic and clinical psychiatrist who also has a busy private forensic and medico-legal psychiatric practice in the family, criminal, child protection, juvenile justice, civil and “dangerous” sex offender areas. Scott’s private clinical practice interests include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and anxiety disorders. He is the Medical Director of the Forensic Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Child and Youth Mental Health Service which provides services to two thirds of Queensland. He sits on the Queensland Medical Assessment Tribunals and is an Assisting Psychiatrist on the Queensland Mental Health Court.

Professor Heather Douglas is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow based at the T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. Heather’s researches interests include the areas of criminal justice and domestic violence and has published widely on these issues. In several articles and reports, Heather has considered the criminal justice response to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and her work in this area has been highlighted in several government reports and legal cases dealing with FASD.

Dr Russ Scott is a forensic psychiatrist and is the current president of the Queensland Branch of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Lawyers (ANZAPPL). Russ was previously the consultant psychiatrist to the acute male unit of High Security Inpatient Services and Chief Training Supervisor at The Park – Centre for Mental Health. Russ is currently a consultant forensic psychiatrist to the Prison Mental Health Service, Queensland Health and is a senior lecturer at the School of Medicine, University of Queensland.