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The KOALA Clinical Research Team
Gary Leong, Paediatric Endocrinologist and KOALA Project Leader
Denise Mitchell, KOALA Project Co-ordinator
Roslyn Butler, KOALA Clinic Nursing Co-ordinator
Nick Martel, Senior Research Assistant
Mark Harris, Paediatric Endocrinologist
Andrew Cotterill, Paediatric Endocrinologist
Honey Heussler, Paediatric Development and Sleep Medicine
Michael O'Callaghan, Paediatric Development and Rehabilitation
Frank Bowling, Metabolic Physician
Karam Kostner, Cardiology and Lipidology
Allied Health at Mater Children's Hospital
Anne Maree Buttner, Director
Sally McCray, Director, Mater Health and Wellness Clinic and Head, Nutrition Services
Lynda Harbison, Occupational Therapy
Laura Desha, Occupational Therapy
Annabel Heaslop, Occupational Therapy
Ian Heath, Scouts Master
Michael Beohm, Community Partnerships
Maurice Law, Scouts Commissioner
Christine Kardash, Chief Executive Officer
Helen Elliott, Partnership Initiative Program Officer
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Movement Studies
Doune Macdonald, Dean
Rebecca Abbott, Research Fellow in Clinical Exercise Science
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Division of Occupational Therapy
Jenny Ziviani, Group Leader, Children's Occupational Performance and Participation Research Group
Anne Poulsen, Post-doctoral Fellow
Paediatric Physiotherapy Unit
Pauline Watter, Head
School of Dentistry
Agnes Lichanska, Lecturer
Children's Nutrition Research Center
Peter Davies, Director
Centre for Young People's Health
John Scott, Director
School of Nursing
Heather Beattie, Coordinator of Teaching & Learning and Deputy Head of School
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 
School of Psychology
Parenting and Family Support Centre
Felicity West, Lifestyle Triple P Co-ordinator
Matthew Sanders, Director
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Gary Leong, NHMRC Clinical Career Development Awardee and QLD Smart State Clinical Research Fellow, Nuclear Hormone Receptors and Skeletal Muscle Group.
George Muscat, Group Leader, Nuclear Hormone Receptors and Skeletal Muscle Group
Michael Waters, Group Leader, Growth Hormone and Cytokine Signalling Group
Horst Schirra, Smart State Fellow, NMR Spectroscopy Research Group
The Centre For Magnetic Resonance
Gary Cowin, Research Fellow
Graham Galloway, Professorial Research Fellow
Princess Alexandra Hospital and Mater Adult Hospital Karam Kostner, Cardiology and Lipidology
Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane Jenny Batch, Dept of Endocrinology and Diabetes.
Jeremy Barker, Chief Executive Officer
Dominic Gorse, Technical Manager
Mhairi Marshall, Project Officer
International KOALA Program Consultant
David Ludwig, Director, Optimal Weight for Life Program - Boston Children's Hospital, USA, the author of "Ending the Food Fight - Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World" has agreed to be the KOALA Weight Management Program's external consultant. We look forward to calling upon his advice to help us deliver a world-class program to impove Queensland's children's health.
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