A/Prof Narelle Cox is the Senior Research Fellow in Physiotherapy and Respiratory Research at Monash University, Melbourne; and is a current National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Fellow. Narelle completed her undergraduate and Masters degrees from the University of Sydney, and was awarded her PhD in 2014 from La Trobe University in Melbourne. Her research focuses on improving health and clinical outcomes for people with chronic respiratory disease through exercise rehabilitation; including exploration of telemedicine and technology-based strategies to improve access to pulmonary rehabilitation services for people of all ages with a chronic respiratory disease.

Paul Robinson is a Senior Staff Specialist and clinician researcher in the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. He is a Conjoint Professor at the University of Queensland where he is the Deputy Director of the Children's Health and Environment Program. His research targets improved detection, and monitoring, of early lung disease using novel lung function and imaging tools across a number of important paediatric respiratory conditions. He leads international Multiple breath washout (MBW) standardisation work which has enabled its successful incorporation into international clinical trials. Ongoing research is funded by both national and international grants through strong collaborative networks established with leading researchers.

Dr. Ella Smalley was awarded her PhD in 2024 from the University of Tasmania where she focused on understanding the impact of mechanical ventilation on lung heterogeneity and distal organ injury. Now, she has joined the Genetic Research in Pulmonary Fibrosis (GRIPF) study at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research in Hobart, Tasmania, where she uses gene-edited stem cell lines to understand changes in lung biology due to genetic variants identified in patients across Australia.

John is a Registered Nurse leading respiratory nursing for Hunter New England Area Health as the Clinical Nurse Consultant for Airway Disease. Significant roles are developing a multi-disciplinary approach to airway disease, developing new models of care for COPD, asthma and Pleural disease. John is a Professional Member for the NMC, a co-convener for the Thoracic Society of Australia And New Zealand Nursing Group and member of HMRI Breathing for Life.

Dr McCabe is a general respiratory and sleep physician at Christchurch Hospital, Waitaha, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is an active TSANZ member and is on the 2025 TSANZSRS organising committee and outgoing member of CCRS committee. Her areas of interest include medical education, evidence-based medicine and non-invasive ventilation.

Professor Hubertus Jersmann graduated in Germany and completed his physician training and his PhD in Australia. He practices respiratory and sleep medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and also visits Alice Springs Hospital every 2 months for the past 14 years. Professor Jersmann is an Interventional Pulmonologist, performing procedures such as endobronchial lung volume reduction and other procedures. His research comprises clinical trials, where he is the principal investigator for all Asthma studies and is part of the Lung Research Laboratory, studying mechanisms of lung inflammation and the role of macrophage phenotypes in lung cancer. As a teacher Professor Jersmann lectures in the Medical Program of the University of Adelaide, where he inaugurated the curriculum content on Climate Change and Health in 2009. He lectures at both, Flinders University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide. His passion outside medicine is conservation and sustainability, He cycles to work every day, is a vegetarian, composts and recycles, has a photovoltaic solar system, 2 home batteries, solar hot water and three battery electric vehicles.