Dr Sylvia Lim-Gibson is a senior staff specialist psychiatrist and clinical lead the community-based perinatal infant mental service at the Sydney Local Health District. Previously, Sylvia was perinatal psychiatrist with the Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick, Sydney, NSW where she established and was the clinical lead for the Perinatal Outreach Mental Health Services and received the SESLHD Innovation and Improvement award in 2018 for Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Care for that work. Sylvia has also been perinatal psychiatrist with the Sustained Home Visiting (Child and Family Health Nursing) Programme at Arncliffe, NSW, perinatal psychiatrist with the maternity service and consultation liaison psychiatrist with the St George Cancer Care Centre Psychosocial Oncology Team and Calvary Hospital Palliative Care Service, Kogarah, NSW and psychiatrist with the tertiary referral Pain Management Service at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW. Sylvia has a strong commitment for medical education. She was previously the Director of Postgraduate Psychiatry Training for the South East Sydney and Illawarra Training Zone and is an accredited examiner with the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Dr.Marwa Elzain is a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellow at Hamad Medical Corporation in the State of Qatar. She holds an MBBS from Khartoum University in Sudan and is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She finished her residency training in the ACGME-I accredited psychiatry residency training program at Hamad Medical Corporation where she previously held the position of the chief resident. Her main area of interest is perinatal psychiatry and she had done elective rotations at the Women’s Mental health Service at Sidra Medicine during her residency training.

Antonella Sansone-Southwood is a clinical psychologist, MA, educator, researcher, mindfulness teacher/facilitator, author of three books and several articles, and mother of two girls. She has a special interest and research focus on the impact of the prenatal and perinatal period on human development and health, in particular on mother-infant pre/perinatal connection and mental health, integration of primal wisdom and modern science, psychosomatics, and mind-body approaches to prevention and healing. Antonella's several years clinical, educational, research work in UK and Italy, empirical studies of African indigenous cultures, in particular the Himba, and inspiring motherhood have lead to the design of a PhD and new forthcoming books, 'Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive: Why Human Connection from Before Birth Matters', and 'Gems of Primal Wisdom: from Before Conception Through Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond'. Antonella has been granted the International Excellence Award from Central Queensland University (CQU) and has made a number of personal, family and economic sacrifices to move from London after 21 years, and position herself to undertake her PhD with CQU in Australia. Her PhD investigates the pre/perinatal mindfulness relationship-based program she has developed, and its correlations with maternal mental health, prenatal attachment and infant development outcomes.