About the authors

Paul Glasziou FRACGP, PhD is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University and a part-time GP.

He was the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford from 2003-2010.
His key interests include identifying and removing the barriers to using high quality research in everyday clinical practice.

Statement of Competing Interests: none declared

Dr Sam Manger is a clinical and academic General Practitioner and Consultant with a focus on lifestyle medicine and mental health. He is the Academic Lead of the Postgraduate Degrees in Lifestyle Medicine at James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry, as well as the Immediate Past-President of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. He is an Ambassador for the Federal Government initiative Equally Well Australia, Advisory Group Member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Shaping a Healthy Australia project and Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions (HANDI), host of The GP Show podcast for health professionals and was awarded the RACGP QLD GP of the Year in 2021.
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Dr John Bennett PhD FRACGP FACHI works full time as a GP in two practices in St Lucia and Toowong, in Brisbane.

Dr Bennett is a member of the RACGP's National Standing Committee – Information Technology in Clinical Practice.

He has particular interests in applying research evidence in practice, mental health, and patient education.

Statement of Competing Interests: none declared

Dr Tammy Hoffmann is an Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in the Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University.

Her main research interests are in evidence-based practice; shared decision making; and the self-management, rehabilitation and secondary prevention of chronic conditions, especially stroke and falls. She also has a particular interest in non-pharmacological interventions and is currently involved in a number of initiatives to facilitate the translation of effective interventions into practice.

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Peter Greenberg MD PhD FRACP is a consultant general physician in the Department of General Medicine and the Melbourne EpiCentre at The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), Honorary Principal Fellow, Dept. of Medicine RMH and School of Population Health, University of Melbourne and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.

His main interests are teaching evidence based clinical practice and assisting consumers to make optimal decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

Statement of Competing Interests: none declared

Kim is a Professor in the Department of Physiotherapy, at the University of Melbourne, Director of the Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, and an ARC Future Fellow.

Her main research interest is in improving conservative, non-drug management of musculoskeletal conditions particularly osteoarthritis and she currently holds an NHMRC Program grant in this area.

Statement of Competing Interests: Prof Kim Bennelle receive royalties for an ASICS Osteoarthritis Unloading Shoe

Dr Dan Ewald splits his work time between being a GP in private practice on the Far North Coast of NSW, a GP in an Aboriginal Medical Service, Clinical Adviser to North Coast NSW Primary Health Network and Adjunct Ass Prof Sydney Uni Medical School. He has been involved in a number of policy and guidelines forums including for NSW Health and RACGP.

He is interested in building a strong primary care sector to deliver evidence based health care. His main wish is for more time to fit everything in.

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Ben is a general practitioner in suburban Newcastle, and an academic GP with the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Newcastle. Previously he has worked with divisions of general practice, and in Aboriginal health during 10 years in Alice Springs.

Ben is currently running various research projects in the areas of physical activity coaching, injuries related to cycling, and step counts in older people. He is convinced that physical inactivity is the predominant public health threat of the 21st century in Australia, now that smoking is a peculiar minority activity.

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Jan Radford (FRACGP, FARGP, MPsychMed, MEd, MBBS) is Associate Professor of General Practice at the University of Tasmania. She is based in Launceston where she has worked as a GP for 30 years. Jan is an academic general practitioner with extensive experience in curriculum development, delivery and assessment for medical training at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is also deputy-chair of General Practice Training Tasmania, deputy associate head of the Launceston Clinical School and a member of the RACGP’s Expert Committee - Research.

Jan's research interests include medical education, primary care systems redesign, the use of routinely collected medical record data as a research tool, and translating evidence into practice using all of these approaches.

Statement of Competing Interests: none declared

David King is an academic GP who has taught evidence-based medicine to students and doctors for over 20 years. He is a senior lecturer in the discipline of General Practice, University of Queensland, and does clinical sessions in student health and refugee health.

His research interests include medical education, mental health, respiratory infections and health promotion.

Exercise and healthy lifestyle are important to his own sense of well-being.

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Associate Professor Lauren Ball is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian, NHMRC Fellow and Lead of the Healthy Primary Care team at Griffith University. She is an alumnus of Cambridge University, UK and now the Global Strategy Lead at the NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health in Cambridge. A/Prof Ball is a national leader in nutrition and primary care research, having published over 100 peer-reviewed articles on the topic and attracted over $3.5 million in research funding from government bodies, non-government organisations and philanthropic foundations. A/Prof Ball is on the Executive Committee of the Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care, Management Committee of BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health, Associate Editor for the international journal Family Practice as well as Associate Editor for the Australian Journal of Primary Health.

Statement of Competing Interests: none declared

Dr Zoe Michaleff is the Research Operations Manager for Northern NSW Local Health District.

With a background in physiotherapy, her main interest is in evidence-based practice and enabling healthcare clinicians and patients to access, engage with and use high-quality evidence to inform their practice and healthcare decisions. Her research interests are in the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of health conditions with a focus on musculoskeletal conditions.

Statement of Competing Interests: none declared