Dinesh was the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland and the second person to graduate medical school with quadriplegia in Australia. Dinesh is a doctor, lawyer, disability advocate, and researcher. Halfway through medical school, he was involved in a motor vehicle accident that caused a cervical spinal cord injury. Dinesh has completed an Advanced Clerkship in Radiology at the Harvard University.
As a result of his injury and experiences, Dinesh has been an advocate for inclusivity. He is a founding member of Doctors with Disabilities Australia.

Dinesh works in the emergency department at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He is a senior lecturer at the Griffith University and adjunct research fellow at the Menzies Health Institute of Queensland. Dinesh is a researcher in spinal cord injury. He is a doctor for the Gold Coast Titans physical disability rugby team. Dinesh is a senior advisor to the Disability Royal Commission. He is an ambassador to the Human Rights Commission’s Includeability program,. Dinesh was the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service’s Junior Doctor of the Year in 2018. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2019. He was the third Australian to be awarded a Henry Viscardi Achievement Award. He was the 2021 Griffith University Young Alumnus of the Year. Dinesh was the Queensland Australian of the Year for 2021.

Katherine is currently the Disability and National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Coordinator for South Western Sydney Local Health District. This role contributes to the interface between NSW Health and the NDIS for NSW and leads implementation of the disability inclusion policy and strategy for the district. Katherine has a clinical background in Speech Pathology and completed her PhD examining the role of Speech Pathology in palliative and end-of-life care.

Craig McBride is a Senior Paediatric Surgeon at Queensland Children's Hospital. He has clinical expertise in hepatobiliary and thoracic conditions, as well as trauma and burns. His research interests are also in these areas, particularly in rare conditions of childhood. His work brings him into regular contact with families whose children have complex congenital and acquired conditions, and surgery related to those conditions. He has become increasingly aware of the challenges families face in negotiating healthcare systems for their children, and is working to try and ease those challenges at both a personal and a systemic level.

Mandy is the manager of CheckUP’s ‘Access for All – Disability Awareness for Mainstream Health Providers’ project, funded by the NDIA. She is a health professional with the PhD on the social determinants of health. Her background in nutrition and dietetics and lived experience of disability have seen her on the giving and receiving ends of healthcare. This parallel exposure to healthcare for people with disability has helped her appreciate the importance of disability awareness among health providers. Mandy believes creating awareness of the barriers experienced by people with disability when accessing healthcare is a preliminary but necessary step towards improving healthcare access and inclusion for people with disability.