David A. Kaminsky, MD is Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at University of Vermont College of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, and medical degree from University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, and fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Dr. Kaminsky joined the faculty of University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1995 and continues to work as a clinician, researcher and educator. Dr. Kaminsky is an attending physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center and is the Clinical Director of the Pulmonary Function Lab. He is a past Chair of the Proficiency Standards for Pulmonary Function Laboratories Committee of the American Thoracic Society and is a member of the pulmonary function exam writing committee of the National Board for Respiratory Care. Dr. Kaminsky is also a site co-principal investigator with the Airways Clinical Research Centers network of the American Lung Association. Dr. Kaminsky is actively involved in teaching and research. His areas of research interest include pulmonary physiology, lung mechanics, asthma and COPD. Dr. Kaminsky’s work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Lung Association, the Whittaker Foundation, local university and hospital grants, and other agencies. Along with authoring over 150 original papers, reviews and medical book chapters, Dr. Kaminsky is the editor of The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Respiratory System, 2nd and 3rd Edition, and co-editor of Pulmonary Function Testing: Principles and Practice, part of the Respiratory Medicine series sponsored by the American Thoracic Society.

Professor King is a clinician-researcher at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. He is the research leader of the Airway Physiology and Imaging Group at the Woolcock, and is staff specialist in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital, where he directs the asthma service and is the Medical Director of the Respiratory Investigation Unit. He is Professor of the Northern Clinical School of the University of Sydney. His current research interests include the pathophysiology of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiolitis in haemopoietic stem cell transplantation, cystic fibrosis and airway hyperresponsiveness.

Brigitte is an accredited clinical physiologist (respiratory) with 32 years’ experience. Brigitte works at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne as Head, Physiology Service, Respiratory Medicine. Brigitte’s areas of interest in the field of respiratory medicine include lung function interpretation (for which she co-authored a book in 2014), laboratory accreditation, quality spirometry in primary care, and oxygen therapy.

Charles G. Irvin, Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, in the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. Dr. Irvin received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and was a NIH postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in Montreal. From 1980-1998, he was on the faculty of the University of Colorado-Denver and since on the UVM faculty. Dr. Irvin’s scientific career has focused on understanding the mechanisms of airways dysfunction of the patient with COPD and asthma. Using a multidisciplinary approach including: cell and molecular biology, animal models and systems, transgenics, physiology, imaging and clinical studies. With >250 peer-review publications, Dr. Irvin enjoys an international reputation. Dr. Irvin is a member of the European Respiratory Society, American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the TSANZ. He has garnered many awards including; the ATS Joe Rodarte Distinguished Science Award, UVM University Scholar Award, Fellow of the European Respiratory Society, Distinguished Educator of the Larner College of Medicine Teaching Academy, ATS Life time Achievement Award in Cardiopulmonary Diagnostics, Fellow of the ATS and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (London). In 2023, he was made an honorary member of ANZSRS.

Professor Bruce Thompson is an active clinical scientist, with over 30 years of experience working in hospitals and universities and is a key opinion leader in pulmonary function measurement internationally. For the first 27 years of his career, he worked in clinical respiratory and sleep laboratories in major teaching hospital’s. Throughout this time, he has developed and focused his research on the physiology of small airway function. The work is being approached on a number of fronts; physiological measurement, imaging, and mathematical modelling. Since that time Prof Thompson is now regarded as an international expert on clinical respiratory measurement. His published works include a book on lung function, as well as numerous book chapters and 188 peer-reviewed journal articles and official documents. As an established clinical researcher in lung function, asthma, allergies and respiratory health, Bruce has been awarded competitive grants of over $35.9M AUD including through the NHMRC and ARC schemes. He is a past President of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and was the first non-medical president in the history of the society, and is a Fellow of ANZSRS, TSANZ, APSR and finally ERS. He has extensive international reputation respiratory medicine. His international reputation has led to him being invited to participate in five American Thoracic Society/ European Respiratory Society task forces and recently co-chaired the ATS/ERS task force writing the Lung Function interpretation document which is to be used across all lung function laboratories globally. Prof Thompson’s strengths are bringing non-traditional expertise to clinical healthcare and biomedicine, using his varied contacts and expertise to build truly cross-disciplinary projects. In 2022 Prof Thompson became a member of the Order of Australia for services respiratory medicine and tertiary medical education. Professor Thompson joined the University of Melbourne as Head, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.