Eleanor has completed advanced training in Palliative Medicine and is currently completing advanced training in General and Acute Care Medicine. She has experience caring for patients with advanced lung diseases and chronic breathlessness through her work in the Respiratory Advanced Lung Clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital during her training.

Jessica is a respiratory physiotherapist, with clinical and research experience in both Australia and the UK. In 2022, she was awarded the Lung Foundation Australia/ Better Breathing Foundation PhD Scholarship in Chronic Lung Disease, commencing her PhD at The University of Sydney investigating whether pulmonary rehabilitation can be implemented in primary care.

Professor Saini is a high throughput researcher who has led and collaborated in implementing and evaluating several successful pharmacy-based service trials in respiratory and sleep health. She has received AUD 23.4 million in competitive national/international research grants as an investigator, published >200 manuscripts and supervised 35 MPhil/PhD students to completion.

A/Prof Natasha Smallwood is a consultant respiratory physician at the Alfred Hospital, Head of the Chronic Respiratory Disease Research group at the School of Translational Medicine (Monash University) and principal research fellow at Monash University. She has clinical expertise and research interests in breathlessness, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary fibrosis, symptom management and severe lung diseases.

A/Prof Barton is a primary care scientist in the Department of General Practice. An experienced academic working across primary care and public health, his current research program is centred around quality in primary care management of complex and chronic illness and focuses specially on patient experience of care and management of respiratory illness and smoking/vaping cessation in primary care. He has a long-standing research interest in the emotional and social impact of chronic respiratory illnesses including asthma and COPD amongst primary care patients and individuals living in the community. This research is cited in Australia’s asthma management guidelines and has helped shape the current National Asthma Strategy 2018 and is cited in the Lung Foundation Australia Blue Print for Action on COPD (2022-25). He is the Convener of the Primary Care special interest group of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ)