Dr Nayan Soni is in his final few months of psychiatry registrar training. He has a keen interest in early intervention psychiatry and hopes to help families, especially fathers, in building positive and nurturing relationships. Nayan is also completing his advanced training in Addiction Psychiatry at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He is the bi-national registrar representative for the Section of Social and Cultural Psychiatry and the Section of ECT and Neural Stimulation.

Dr Susan Roberts has been the Perinatal Psychiatrist for the Perinatal Mental Health Service at the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service for last 12 years. In 2017 she became the Clinical Lead of the Lavender Mother and Baby Uni, Queensland’s first public mother and baby unit. Lavender mother and baby unit is a 4 bed statewide unit. She has been on the committee of the Section for Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry of the Royal Australian College of Psychiatrists till this year stepping back to chair the QLD Section. She is committed to the improvement of local and statewide Perinatal Mental Health Services and networks. She is interested in the training and education of psychiatry trainees, midwives, child health nurses, general practitioners and obstetric trainees in the importance of the recognition and effective management of perinatal mental health.

Dr Susan Roberts has been the Perinatal Psychiatrist for the Perinatal Mental Health Service at the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service for last 12 years. In 2017 she became the Clinical Lead of the Lavender Mother and Baby Uni, Queensland’s first public mother and baby unit. Lavender mother and baby unit is a 4 bed statewide unit. She has been on the committee of the Section for Perinatal and Infant Psychiatry of the Royal Australian College of Psychiatrists till this year stepping back to chair the QLD Section. She is committed to the improvement of local and statewide Perinatal Mental Health Services and networks. She is interested in the training and education of psychiatry trainees, midwives, child health nurses, general practitioners and obstetric trainees in the importance of the recognition and effective management of perinatal mental health.

Kristine is a Perinatal Psychiatrist working at the Royal Womens Hospital Melbourne Victoria as well as the Mother Baby Unit, Mercy Hospital Werribee. She devised the MindBabyBody program which is a mindfulness based group program and has previously presented the pilot data at Marce. She has an academic honorary position at The University of Melbourne Department of Psychiatry and is passionate in working in women's mental health and contributing to the clinical evidence that underpins excellence in clinical care in the perinatal period.