Speakers

Dr Martin Miller, University Hospital Trust, Birmingham, UK

Martin Miller graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London in 1975 with MBBS and entered research in 1980 completing an MD about time domain analysis of the spirogram. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Birmingham in 1988 working as Honorary Consultant Physician at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield. He moved to the University Hospital Trust, Birmingham in 1996 and was then Director of Education for the undergraduate medical course. He is chair of two British Standards Institute groups which have produced separate ISO standards for measuring PEF and for recording spirometry. He has been principal author for the most recent ATS/ERS Standards documents for spirometry and is on the ATS/ERS Occupational Spirometry Task Force. Martin was also a co-author of the 6th edition of Lung Function by JE Cotes.

Invited speakers

Paul Guy, Monash Medical Centre/Dandenong Hospital, Melbourne
	Paul has worked as a respiratory scientist for more than 25 years, working at the Alfred Hospital, Repatriation General Hospital, Austin Hospital and the Royal Children's Hospital. He is currently the Head Scientist and Business Manager of the Department of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine at Monash Medical Centre and Dandenong Hospital. Paul is a life member of the ANZSRS and was President from 1998-2000. He is currently on the Board of the ANZSRS during its governance review and structural change. He lists the Sydney Swans premiership in 2007 as his greatest life achievement.
Dr Paul Older, Melbourne University & Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
	Paul Older commenced his medical training at Guys Hospital London, moving to Australia in 1967. He worked at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and the School of Underwater & Hyperbaric Medicine with the Royal Australian Navy. In 1982 he commenced at the Western General Hospital, setting up the Cardio-pulmonary assessment service. He developed an interest in the use of cardio-pulmonary exercise testing in the pre-operative assessment of patients and is widely published in this area. He has also written the "History of the measurement of oxygen uptake", from Lavoisier in 1783, through to the breath by breath analysis used today. Dr Older was appointed Executive Director of the International Society of Exercise Intolerance, Research & Education (ISEIRE) in 2005.
Dr Sandra Anderson, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
	Sandra is a physiologist and studied at the Universities of Sydney (BSc) and London (PhD, DSc). She did her initial training in Respiratory Physiology in Dr Julius Comroe's laboratory, and later her PhD with Dr Simon Godfrey in London. Her major contribution has been in the field of asthma particularly the application of measurement to its diagnosis and treatment. Her studies in asthma led to the commercial development of a rapid test for identifying asthmatics involving the inhalation of mannitol. Sandra is well known in the field of measurement, management and mechanisms of exercise-induced asthma. She serves on the International Olympic Medical Commission independent panel for asthma (2001-2009). She is a Fellow of the ANZSRS, and a Life Governor of Asthma NSW. She grows olives for oil and likes opera and theatre.
Dr Deborah Yates, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
	Deborah Yates is a Respiratory Physician in the Department of Thoracic Medicine at the St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney and a Conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW. She has a longstanding clinical and research interest in occupational lung disease and pulmonary LAM, and has published widely in the field of asthma & occupational lung disease - including the use of biomarkers in the non-invasive assessment of lung disease.

Oxygen Symposium

Richard Beasley, Wellington Hospital, New Zealand
	Richard Beasley is a respiratory physician at Wellington Hospital and Director of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand. His research interests in respiratory medicine include epidemiology, clinical management and pharmacovigilance. He has an interest in the oxygen dissociation curve and how it may be better represented.
Brenton Eckert, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane
	Brenton is the Scientific Director of the Respiratory Laboratory at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. He has a strong interest in all aspects of ambulatory oxygen assessment with recent presentations at the 2008 ANZSRS ASM and the 2009 APSR Annual Congress. This interest even goes as far as voluntarily submitting his radial artery for arterial blood gas sampling.
Dr Christine McDonald
	Associate Professor Christine McDonald is Acting Director of the Austin Hospital's Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and a Director of the Institute for Breathing and Sleep Medicine. She is a co-author of the TSANZ Position Paper on Provision of Adult Domiciliary Oxygen Therapy in Australia. Research interests include the role of portable oxygen therapy in COPD, the need for oxygen use while driving, the psychological and cognitive effects of falls in night time oxygen saturation in COPD and home telecare monitoring of COPD.
John Serginson
	John has worked at The Prince Charles Hospital as a Thoracic Clinical Nurse Consultant since 2000. Developing a research interest in domiciliary oxygen therapy, he has investigated issues faced by patients, Oxymizer Pendant conservers and oxygen service delivery, completing a Master of Clinical Nursing in 2006. He is a member of the Oxygen Clinical Advisory Committee for the state-funded service in Queensland.
Brigitte Borg
	With 17 years experience in the field of respiratory science, Brigitte is the Deputy Head of the Physiology Service, Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. Brigitte has undertaken the role of Oxygen Therapy Coordinator at The Alfred for the majority of her career. Brigitte is predominantly responsible for the administration of the clinical and research programs in the Physiology Service.

Other ANZSRS Speakers

Helen Petsky
	Helen Petsky is a Clinical Nurse Consultant (Research) at the Queensland Children's Respiratory Centre, Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane. She is currently undertaking a PhD entitled, "Clinical Utility of FeNO". Her current research interests include children with chronic cough and children with asthma. She enjoys delivering asthma education to other health professionals.
Peter Franklin
	Peter Franklin is an environmental and occupational epidemiologist at the University of Western Australia. He first started measuring FeNO in the mid 1990's as a potential non-invasive marker of airway inflammation for environmental exposures. However, one of the main findings of that research was the importance of atopy in measuring FeNO. He also helped develop a method for measuring FeNO in very young children and has published a number of papers in this area.