Dr. Pierre Azzam serves as Associate Program Director for Psychiatry Residency Training and Program Director for the Consultation-Liaison (CL) Psychiatry Fellowship at the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) in Pittsburgh, USA. He earned his medical degree (MD) in 2005 from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston before completing psychiatry residency at UPMC in 2009 and fellowship in CL Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His interests in men's health, personal development, and working with fathers led him to seek Professional Coaching Certification at the Duquesne University School of Business in Pittsburgh this year. Dr. Azzam is combining services in transformational coaching, education, and psychiatry to work with men at times of important life transition, including early fatherhood, to promote emotional resilience, authenticity, compassion, and clarity of purpose.

Richard Fletcher is Associate Professor, Brain and Mental Health Priority Research Centre, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, NSW. He has been conducting research with fathers and families for over 20 years and is co-convenor of the Australian Fatherhood Research Consortium. He has designed and delivered courses and seminars on Health Research, Boys’ development and Father involvement to teachers, nurses, occupational therapists, and medical students. He has designed and delivered postgraduate courses at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry (Unit on fathers) and online: Father Infant Attachment and Co-parenting: theory and Intervention; and, Working With fathers in Vulnerable Families. He is currently Leader of the Fathers and Families Research Program at the Family Action Centre, and co-convenor, Australian Fatherhood Research Network. His book “The Dad Factor: How the Father-Baby Bond Helps a Child for Life” has been translated into 5 languages

Dr Alka Kothari is a Senior Staff Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology with over thirty years of clinical experience. She is also the Conjoint Site- Coordinator of the Northside Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, at Redcliffe Hospital. She is an Examiner for both the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the University of Queensland. She is also a member of the Prince Charles Human Research and Ethics Committee and the Research supervisor or the trainee registrars. She has won various research excellence, teaching and leadership awards in Metro North Health and Hospital Service and the University of Queensland. She has published extensively in international journals and is an invited speaker at international and national conferences. She has a passionate interest in encouraging multi-disciplinary research especially in perinatal mental health, women’s imaging and medical education. She is currently pursuing a PhD on “Forgotten Fathers in pregnancy and childbirth”.