Dr Bridget Murray is Programme Director and Lecturer at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Her work focuses on nursing education, curriculum development, and healthcare research, with particular interests in digital health, respiratory care, and evidence synthesis methodologies. She is interested in the use of Graphic Medicine as a creative and interdisciplinary approach to healthcare education, communication, and storytelling, and values its potential to amplify patient, student, and clinician experiences through visual narratives.

AmberAmelia has a MA in animation from IADT in which she explored the therapeutic possibilities of animation for those living with and caring for a loved one with a chronic or terminal illness. Her work utilises traditional and experimental animation techniques creating tactile pieces which reflect the grief and trauma from these events. She aims to develop her research into animation under the lens of Graphic Medicine and Neuro-Arts to a PhD level and teach workshops to promote the benefits of her findings. 

Autumn Brown is an Assistant Professor in Public Health and Health Policy at Trinity College Dublin's School of Medicine. Her work explores the relationship between science, society, and public health, with a particular focus on how research can better serve communities facing uncertainty. Her work spans informal collectives of care, histories of science, stigma, and art-science. She favours creative research methodologies, tools of dissemination and outputs including zines, soundscapes, exhibitions, and installations. She is the co-founder of the ART+SCIENCE SALON, an event series based between Dublin and Berlin.

Francesco is a Collaboration Alchemist interested in what happens when people who might not ordinarily meet are invited to think, make and learn together. As a facilitator, trainer and coach, he creates participatory experiences exploring collaboration and intergenerational understanding. He is drawn to Graphic Medicine as a meeting place where visual storytelling and lived experience come together to allow conversations that do not always fit easily into words. As Communities Connector, he hopes to bring different people and perspectives together and see what alchemy might emerge.

Rucha Benare is a biomedical engineering scientist and art curator, and a communities connector with Graphic Medicine Ireland. She is currently a PhD researcher at Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, developing a microfluidic muscle-on-chip platform to model Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She also directs Muse Ex Machina, an internationally funded art-science collective exhibiting across Ireland, Switzerland, and South America. Via poetry, curation, and engineering, she aims to grow and connect varied communities; building the collaborations and relationships where visual narrative, creative practice, and lived experiences meet. She believes creative practice is essential infrastructure for compassionate, accountable healthcare.