TSANZ: Ann Woolcock New Investigator Session
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TSANZ Symposia
TSANZ Orals
Monday, March 24, 2025 |
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
Hall C |
Speaker
Ms Sarah Brown
PhD Candidate
University of Sydney
Is mobile health pulmonary rehabilitation (m-PRTM) equivalent to centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD? A randomised controlled equivalence trial.
10:30 AM - 10:45 AMBiography
Ms Sarah Brown is a PhD candidate from the University of Sydney and the recipient of the Better Breathing Foundation PhD Scholarship. She is investigating the effectiveness of the mobile pulmonary rehabilitation (m-PR) platform in people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Sarah has 10 years of experience as a physiotherapist.
Ms Sarah Hug
PhD Candidate
Curtin University
Going the extra step to enhance referrals to pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD
10:45 AM - 11:00 AMBiography
Sarah is a Senior Physiotherapist at Royal Perth Hospital, and final year PhD candidate at Curtin University. Her thesis seeks to understand, implement and evaluate consumer designed ways that optimise referral to pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD known to tertiary care in Perth, WA.
Dr N Sabrina Idrose
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
Early-onset persistent wheeze and atopy from infancy to early adulthood is linked to the worst lung function by age 25-years
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMBiography
Dr Nur Sabrina Idrose is a NHMRC CRE Centre for Safe Air Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the Allergy and Lung Health Unit, University of Melbourne. Idrose’s research focuses on the individual and environmental risk factors of allergic diseases and cardio-respiratory health.
Dr Lucia Pinilla
Research Associate
Flinders University
“Social Apnoea”: Sleep apnoea is exacerbated on weekends – A long-term technology-enabled global study in over 50,000 people
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Dr Lucia Pinilla, PhD (BSc Biotechnology, MSc Biomedical Research) is an early career Research Associate at Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI): Sleep Health.
Dr Daniel Tan
Respiratory & Sleep Registrar
Monash Health
Prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of persistent airflow limitation in asthma: a population-based cohort study
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Daniel is an advanced trainee in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Monash Health in Victoria, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Allergy and Lung Health Unit at the University of Melbourne.
Miss Olivia Young
Phd Student
Monash University
Anti-fibrotic effects of AT2R agonists in a novel human precision cut lung slice model of fibrogenesis: implications for IPF
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
Olivia Young is currently undertaking her PhD (3rd year) in Pharmacology at Monash University supervised by Prof Jane Bourke and Prof Robert Widdop. Her research concerns the potential for activation of the anti-fibrotic elements of the Renin-Angiotensin system as novel anti-fibrotics in the treatment of IPF.
Prof John Fahy
Professor of Medicine, UCSF
University of California
Chairperson
Biography
John Fahy is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco where he directs a clinical research lab focused on disease subtypes of asthma and new drug development.
Assoc Prof Cecilia Prêle
Principal Research Fellow
Institute for Respiratory Health
Chairperson
Biography
