23 – 26 March 2007
SKYCITY Auckland Convention Centre
Speakers
Keynote Speaker| Professor G Kim Prisk, University of California, San Diego | |
 | Kim Prisk became embroiled in the world of pulmonary physiology, somewhat by accident, in 1979, and received his PhD in the field from the University of Otago in 1983. He immediately departed for a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego where he remains today (although he would like to point out that he has managed to escape his post-doc status). His original project in 1983 was to study lung function in spaceflight aboard the Space Shuttle, an experiment that was to fly "real soon", and finally flew in 1991! Since then he has been involved in pulmonary experiments on 7 flights of the Space Shuttle, and on the International Space Station in an experiment that flew for nearly 2 years. While this was going on he developed an interest in how small particles deposit in the human lung and in pursuit of this has spent the equivalent of 10 orbits of the Earth in weightlessness on the NASA KC-135 (affectionately termed the "vomit comet'), although that time unfortunately came in over 2300 25-second periods. He also has a more down-to-earth interest in quantitative functional imaging of the lung using MRI, particularly with respect to pulmonary perfusion and lung water. He is currently working on a project to measure how the toxic dust on the lunar surface will affect the lungs of astronauts, and will likely bore you to death on the topic if you ask about it. |
| Dr Sandra Anderson BSc PhD DSc, Principal Hospital Scientist, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Honorary Associate, Department of Pharmacology - University of Sydney Visiting Fellow, School of Medical Sciences - University of New South Wales | |
 | Sandra is a respiratory physiologist and works in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. She trained at the Universities of Sydney, California and London. Her major contribution to physiology has been in the field of asthma particularly the application of measurement to its diagnosis and treatment. Her studies in asthma led to the development of a number of tests for asthma including a simple and rapid test using a dry powder of mannitol known as Aridol.TM Sandra is an authority in the measurement, management and mechanisms of exercise-induced asthma and her work on osmotic challenges came from her studies on water loss during exercise. She was awarded a Doctor of Science in Medicine from the University of London in 1990 and received the Fisons Medal for Research from the Thoracic Society of Australia and NZ in 1991. She became the first Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science in 2000. Her research is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. |
| Associate Professor Matthew Peters, Concord Repatriation General | |
 | Matthew Peters graduated from Sydney University in 1982. After completing specialty training in Thoracic Medicine he completed an MD with Professor Norbert Berend investigating the effects of bacterial peptides in exacerbations of COPD. After three years of post-doctoral work at The National Heart and Lung Institute in London, he returned to Sydney where he is now Head of Thoracic Medicine at Concord Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor in the Concord Clinical School at Sydney University.
His particular interests are the prevention and better management of smoking-related lung disease, including a special interest in the assessment of hazards of commercial flight for patients with chronic lung disease. |
| Dr Andrew Veale, Mercy Specialist Centre, Auckland | |
 | Andrew Veale is a consulting physician in private practice in Auckland. He is Clinical Director of Auckland Physiology (Private Lung Function Laboratory and Sleep Laboratory) and part-time clinician in Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and Acute Medicine, Division of Medicine, Middlemore Hospital. Dr Veale is a Clinical Lecturer, South Auckland Clinical School, Auckland University and a consultant to the RNZN in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. His special interests include diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring; the acute application of non-invasive ventilation within acute medical services; interventional bronchoscopic techniques in the diagnosis and management of lung diseases; and the physics and physiology of diving and hyperbaric medicine. |
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PO Box 949
Kent Town SA 5071
Australia
Tel: +61 8 8363 1307
Fax: +61 8 8363 1604
ANZSRS@fcconventions.com.au
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