Associate Professor Vicki Kotsirilos AM is a specialist GP with nearly 40 years of clinical experience. She is Australia’s first Authorised Prescriber of Medicinal Cannabis. Dr Kotsirilos is a regular health advisor, medical educator, keynote speaker, lecturer to doctors, and an adjunct Associate Professor at the NIIM, University of Western Sydney. Dr Kotsirilos has served on many regulatory state and federal Government expert committees such as the TGA, ADRAC, the Medicinal Cannabis Expert Working Group, a non-statutory Australian government body, that advises the Department of Health and Aged Care, and formerly served on the Australian Advisory Council on the Medicinal Use of Cannabis.