Assoc Prof Sunita De Sousa is a Staff Specialist in Endocrinology and Genetics at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Her PhD on the genetics and clinical aspects of prolactinomas was awarded the University of Adelaide Doctoral Research Medal. She has completed an MSc at the University of London, and fellowships in pituitary endocrinology at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and clinical genetics in the SA Clinical Genetics Service. With ongoing research funding from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Endocrine Society of Australia and Royal Adelaide Hospital, her postdoctoral research includes monogenic diabetes, hereditary pancreatitis and endocrine tumours. She is a member of Council for the Endocrine Society of Australia, and the founding member of EndoGen – a national network of endocrine genetic centres, which has led to Australia’s first national endocrine genetics MDT meeting. She is a PhD supervisor and reviewer for several journals. She also serves on the eviQ Cancer Genetics Committee and the US Endocrine Society Steering Committee for Endocrine Cancers Special Interest Group, and she was a co-author of the recent Australian hyperparathyroidism guidelines.