Michael is a Clinical Psychologist and since 1994 has worked at the Pain Management and Research Centre, RNSH, where he has clinical, research and teaching roles, as well as directing multidisciplinary pain management programs. He has also held a conjoint appointment with the Sydney Medical School (Northern), University of Sydney throughout this time and since 2012, he has also directed the Post-Graduate Pain Education unit which provides online degree and continuing education courses for all health disciplines.

Michael took up his clinical-academic position at RNSH in 1994, and since then he and his team has implemented and maintained a range of in-person and online group and individual programs. They have also provided skills training on pain management for all health disciplines across NSW, including community-based NSLHD Chronic Care Coordinators, and, with the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI), Aboriginal Health Workers in southern NSW and multicultural health workers to deliver pain management guidance to CALD communities.

Michael’s career has also included senior roles with the ACI’s Pain Management Network, advising NSW Health on pain services across NSW. His research and educational work has also been recognised internationally by the International Association for the Study of PAIN (IASP), and is reflected in his contributions to the development of the 11th edition of the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) on Chronic Pain Diagnoses, and, most recently, to the 2022 The Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard for The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.​

Sue is a geriatrician who has been practising at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital in northern Sydney for 36 years, and in an outreach capacity at Batemans Bay and Moruya Hospitals in southern New South Wales for 16 years. She holds the Curran Chair in Health Care of Older People in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Her research and practice interests centre on dementia, frailty, elder abuse, geriatric outreach services, successful ageing, and intergenerational programs, and her work focuses on translation of research into clinical practice. She has set up memory clinics at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital and Batemans Bay hospitals, and leads the dementia clinical drug trials unit at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital. She was awarded the 2022 Sidney Sax Medal for leadership in health services policy and delivery, for her development and implementation of geriatric outreach services, and in January 2023 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medicine as a geriatrician, and to research into dementia and cognitive function.​