Jane is a Respiratory Nurse Practitioner on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She developed nurse led services to support patients living with chronic lung disease in the UK, before moving to Australia in 2006 where she has developed nurse led models of care for respiratory patients in Sydney and on the Sunshine Coast. She is passionate about hospital avoidance and empowering the community management of chronic lung disease.

Prof Subash Shanthakumar Heraganahally, is the Director and Head of Respiratory and Sleep service at the Royal Darwin Hospital & Darwin Respiratory and Sleep Health, Darwin Private Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory. He is a faculty at the Flinders and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, mostly addressing respiratory and sleep health issues in the adult Indigenous Australians. He is a senior member of Sleep health, Indigenous working group (Australasian Sleep Association and Sleep Health Foundation), Australasian Bronchiectasis Consortium (Lung Foundation Australia), and past executive board member of the TSANZ – SA/NT branch. He is the recipient of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand research excellence award - The Robert Pierce Grant-In-Aid for Indigenous lung Health in 2023 and Lung Foundation Australia, David Serisier Memorial Award for Translational Research in Bronchiectasis – 2024 and other notable contribution to research include - the development of sleep assessment scale for adult Indigenous people the “Top End Sleepiness Scale”, the GPSS – General practice sleep scale and the IBAS – Indigenous Bronchiectasis assessment scale.

Andy is a respiratory and sleep physician in Wellington Hospital. He trained in Cardiff and undertook his advanced training in Waikato and Wellington. Most of his outpatient work is in sleep medicine and Cystic Fibrosis.

Dr Laird is a senior paediatric respiratory physiotherapist at Perth Children’s Hospital (B.Sc Physiotherapy, dist, 1992) with >25 years expertise and special interest in chronic lung disease, particularly bronchiectasis in Indigenous children. Dr Laird concluded full-time doctoral studies in Paediatric Indigenous chronic lung disease and currently leads/co-leads four research projects across WA and QLD at the Kids Research Institute Australia. Her research has provided world-first data on the prevalence of the life-shortening, ‘orphan disease’ of bronchiectasis; addressed significant health-service and health-outcome gaps for Indigenous children in regional/remote parts of Australia. In close partnership with Aboriginal medical services, community members and experts, she has contributed to two TSANZ national position statements, and created accessible lung health literacy resources for Indigenous families that, with her research, have already translated throughout Australia. Dr Laird co-produced two online training modules for clinicians on culturally informed assessment and management of respiratory disease in Indigenous children (bronchiectasis and asthma), which are endorsed by Royal Australian College of GPs and Lung Foundation Australia. Dr Laird is the 2024 joint WA Early Career Scientist of the Year and the 2024 WA Allied Health Researcher of the Year. Dr Laird is an adjunct A/Prof at Curtin University and the University of Western Australia and supervises four PhD candidates, 10 staff, five of whom are Indigenous. Dr Laird is current co-chair of the European Respiratory Society taskforce on guidelines for airway clearance for children with chronic suppurative lung diseases.