Dr Helen Whitford is the Clinical Director of Respiratory Medicine at Townsville University Hospital having moved from Melbourne in May 2024. Dr Helen Whitford graduated in medicine from Flinders University of South Australia. She then completed general physician training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital followed by respiratory medicine training. Dr Whitford completed a Masters of Pulmonary Vascular Disease at the University of Bologna in 2015. Having worked for many years in the areas of pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation, Dr Whitford moved to Townsville to continue her career and provide increased access for North Queensland to experienced care in the areas of pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation.

Assoc Prof Burdeniuk studied medicine at Flinders University after completion of a Bachelor of Science with Honours at the University of Adelaide. She completed her advanced training in Cardiology and Echocardiography in 2007 at Flinders Medical Centre before pursuing a further Clinical Fellowship in Heart Failure and Transplantation at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. Since 2009 Assoc Prof Burdeniuk has been providing care to patients with advanced heart failure and pulmonary arterial hypertension throughout SALHN and established a tertiary level heart failure service in Mt Gambier. She is active in the selection and care of heart transplantation recipients in South Australia. She is actively involved in heart failure clinical trials and Australian heart failure guidelines.

Dr Rob Lewis is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Middlemore Hospital, and a visiting specialist to the Greenlane Pulmonary Vascular Clinic, Auckland. He undertook his pulmonary vascular fellowship in Sheffield and has particular clinical and research interests in phenotypes and risk stratification within pulmonary hypertension.

Edmund Lau is an academic respiratory physician working at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is the lead Respiratory Physician of the Pulmonary Hypertension Service at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He is the Co-Director of the Australian and New Zealand Pulmonary Hypertension Registry. He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed publications, mostly on the topic of pulmonary hypertension.

Emily Lawton is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician at The Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia. She completed her undergraduate and physician training in the UK NHS before undertaking specialist respiratory training and fellowship at the RAH, where she continues to work. She is the lead physician running the Respiratory Rapid Access Service at the RAH, designed to reduce ED presentations and hospital admissions and improve patient outcomes. Her clinical specialties include ILD and PH and she currently chairs the Royal Adelaide Hospital Complex pulmonary hypertension MDM. She is the current SA/NT Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand President.