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Doris completed a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science (Hons) at JCU, with her Honours project investigating the effect of different exercise modes on acute arterial stiffness responses, an indicator of future cardiovascular disease. Changing direction, her PhD (also with JCU) revolved around the Worms and Metabolism (WAM) clinical trial that proposed an innovative approach to diabetes prevention, using human hookworms to improve insulin resistance in humans with metabolic disease. Doris found the idea that something so maligned as intestinal parasites could turn out as a possible prevention of one of today’s most insidious diseases fascinating and is very grateful her supervisors gave her the chance to be involved in this project, given her very different undergraduate background. Some of you may have heard Doris talk about this trial’s protocol during the 2018 ASP conference in Melbourne, and today, Doris will present some results.