Distinguished Laureate Professor Nicholas J. Talley AC is a gastroenterologist and public health physician, researcher and educator.

Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia, he is also Past President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians where he became very active in advocating about the serious health impacts of climate change, and promoting adaptation and mitigation by the health system and the community. Nick continued this work when Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia, from 2015 to 2023.

He is currently the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digestive Health at the University of Newcastle, and is the co-author of Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination and Examination Medicine.