Speakers
| Dr Martin J Tobin, Hines VA Hospital & Loyola University Medical School, Chicago, USA | |
 | Martin Tobin grew up in Kilkenny, Ireland, where he received his fundamental education. He went to medical school at University College Dublin (1969-75). He completed a medical residency in Dublin, and undertook fellowship training at King's College Hospital, London, the University of Miami (both in pulmonary medicine), and the University of Pittsburgh (critical care medicine). Dr. Tobin's initial faculty appointment was at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. Since 1990, he has served on the faculty of Hines VA Hospital and Loyola University Medical School in Chicago.
Dr. Tobin has published original research on control of breathing, respiratory muscle function, and mechanical ventilation, and has also published other areas of pulmonary and critical care medicine. Between 1999 and 2004, Dr. Tobin served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. |
| Professor Simon Gandevia, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, NSW | |
 | Professor Simon Gandevia is a medical graduate and neurophysiologist with a major clinical interest in the neural control of breathing. He is the founder and Deputy Director of the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, holds three research doctorates (PhD, MD and DSc) from the University of NSW, and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
With more than 250 published articles, Simon's research focuses on how the brain controls human limb muscles and human respiratory muscles in health and disease. One emphasis has been the development of tests of neuromuscular function which can be applied to understand pathological changes in patients. This has included work on dyspnoea, phrenic nerve testing, diaphragm and intercostals muscle function and more recently, on the control of upper airways muscles. Simon is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Physiology. |
| Professor Andrew Bersten, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Flinders University/Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA | |
 | Andrew Bersten is Professor and Head of Department of Critical Care Medicine at Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre. Following a research Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario with Professor WJ Sibbald he returned to Flinders in late 1988 as an Intensive Care Specialist.
Current research interests include mechanical ventilation, ARDS and the lung in heart failure. Measurement of respiratory mechanics at the bedside, in animal and laboratory models has provided important insights and the ability to explore different hypotheses. In his spare time Andrew Bersten co-edits "Oh's Intensive Care Manual" with Neil Soni. |
| Dr Samantha Ellis, Department of Radiology, The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC | |
 | Samantha Ellis completed her radiology training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia, in 1997. Two fellowships ensued, the first a Body Imaging Fellowship at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne followed by Thoracic Imaging at Vancouver General Hospital, BC, Canada in 1999/2000 under the guidance of Prof Netstor Muller, a world renowned Thoracic Radiologist. It was during this period that Samantha's interest in thoracic imaging was consolidated, gaining significant experience in the field, with particular attention paid to interstitial/restrictive lung diseases.
Samantha currently works at The Alfred, Melbourne, working intimately with the Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine. |
| Dr Chris Zappala, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, QLD | |
 | Chris Zappala recently finished physician training in respiratory medicine and until recently, has worked at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, in the Interstitial Lung Diseases Unit. Developing an interest in this challenging area of respiratory medicine he has embarked on a body of research examining how change in serial lung function parameters describes disease behaviour and predicts survival. He has worked extensively across the breadth of diffuse parenchymal lung diseases as both clinician and researcher and in so doing challenged the notion of rigid interpretation of lung function. He is about to embark on collaborative work relating structure to function in hypersensitivity pneumonitis and sarcoidosis. He currently works as a respiratory physician at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane Australia, his alma mata |
| Dr David Berlowitz, Institute for Breathing & Sleep and Victorian Respiratory Support Service, Austin Health, Melbourne, VIC | |
 | David Berlowitz is a research physiotherapist at the Institute for Breathing and Sleep and the Victorian Respiratory Support Service at Austin Health in Melbourne, Australia. He worked as a cardiorespiratory physiotherapist in many of Melbourne's private and public sector hospitals before moving into clinical research, particularly in chronic disease, respiratory and sleep medicine. His PhD examined sleep and breathing in the first year following acute tetraplegia. He helped establish and was the first physiotherapist for the VRSS and he was also the first Coordinator of the Northern Clinical Research Centre at the Northern Hospital. David's current research includes chronic disease management and evaluation, a program of sleep in tetraplegia studies and the use of non-invasive ventilation in both Motor Neurone Disease and Obesity Hypoventilation. |
| A/Professor Anne Holland, La Trobe University & The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC | |
 | Anne Holland is Associate Professor of Physiotherapy at La Trobe University and Senior Clinician Physiotherapist for the Alfred Hospital Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program, Melbourne. Her research interests and publications encompass exercise training in chronic lung disease, respiratory physiology and airway clearance techniques. Anne is currently the chief investigator for a multi-site trial of pulmonary rehabilitation in interstitial lung disease. Anne leads a physiotherapy clinical research centre at Bayside Health in Melbourne where she runs a research program focused on physical activity in people with chronic respiratory disease. |
| Dr Andrew Wilson, Princes Margaret Hospital, Perth, WA | |
 | Andrew Wilson is a paediatric respiratory physician at Princess Margaret Hospital in Western Australia, an active researcher in the fields of paediatric sleep and respiratory medicine and is responsibile for the ventilatory support clinical service at Princess Margaret Hospital. He has a strong clinical interest in restrictive lung disease in children, particularly with reference to neuromuscular disease. Dr Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. |
| Mr Jeffrey Pretto, Respiratory & Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW | |
 | Jeff has been involved in clinical respiratory physiology for nearly 30 years with a long-standing interest in the improvement of respiratory investigative techniques. He has been an active member of the ANZSRS since its inception in the early 1980s. He has an ongoing involvement in exercise testing and exercise physiology from research and clinical perspectives, as well as being an active exercise participant outside the laboratory. After many years at the Austin Hospital in Heidelberg, Jeff has recently taken on the role of Scientific Director in Respiratory & Sleep Medicine at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. |
| Mr Danny Brazzale, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, VIC | |
 | Danny Brazzale is a respiratory scientist at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, with over a decade's experience working in clinical laboratories. Danny's main interests lie with exercise testing and quality assurance issues in lung function testing. Having obtained his undergraduate degree from Swinburne University, Danny is currently responsible for the running of the exercise laboratory. Danny has been an active member of the ANZSRS over the past 12 years |
| Mr Brenton Eckert, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD | |
 | Brenton is the Senior Respiratory Scientist at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland. He spent his formative years in respiratory science at the Queen Elizabeth and Royal Adelaide Hospital's in South Australia, before moving to the warmer climes and golf courses of Brisbane in 1989. He has a long interest in lung and chest wall mechanics, with a disturbing inclination to readily swallow an oesophageal balloon on any occasion. This has evolved into an interest in the assessment of respiratory muscle function, including supervision of students studying "the assessment of global respiratory muscle strength" and recent ANZSRS Annual Scientific Meeting presentations on Sniff Nasal Inspiratory Pressures.
A past president of the ANZSRS and proud supporter of the Society, Brenton rates obtaining his CRFS, and time spent on the Executive on par with his hole-in-one at Kooyonga. |
| Prof Don Campbell, Department of Medicine, Monash University | |
 | Don Campbell is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Monash University, and Head of General Medicine at the Monash Medical Centre Clayton. He is a Respiratory Physician and the Medical Vice President of the Asthma Foundation Board of Victoria.
Previous positions have included; Director of the Monash Institute of Health Services Research, Director of the Victorian Respiratory Support Service, Austin Hospital and the Head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Evaluation Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital. His research career has taken him from the benchtop (Immunology) to the bedside and beyond. He has conducted several epidemiological studies including a survey of former power industry workers in the Latrobe Valley and surveys of asthma mortality with particular emphasis on psychosocial features of near-fatal asthma, including a Case Control Study of Asthma Mortality in South Australia. More recently his work examining factors associated with problems of access to hospital has led to an interest in applied simulation modelling. His current research interests include modelling patient flows through hospitals and the use of case control methods for clinical audit of in-hospital mortality. |
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