Adjunct Associate Professor Joy Lee leads the Asthma and Allergy Unit at the Austin Hospital and consults for Melbourne Allergy Asthma & Immunology Consultants, as well as in the public sector at the Alfred Hospital and Monash Medical Centre. She has a special interest in the management and treatment of allergic diseases, including allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma. She has experience in the use of immunotherapy for grass pollen and dust mite allergy as well as monoclonal antibody treatments for severe asthma and urticaria. Dr Lee has a PhD with the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Her thesis focus was on improving asthma inhaler usage and difficult to control asthma. She has also undertaken research on epidemic thunderstorm asthma.

Eve Denton is a consultant Respiratory, Sleep and Allergy Physician at the Alfred Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospitals in Melbourne. She is the clinical lead for the Severe Asthma Service at the Alfred Hospital and the current Asthma and Allergy SIG convener for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand. During training she completed a Masters of Public Health at Monash University focusing on epidemiology, biostatistics and clinical research and culminating in a minor thesis in lung cancer epidemiology based at St Vincent’s Hospital. After finishing her specialty training she completed a two year Clinical and Research Fellowship at the Alfred Hospital focusing on Allergy and Asthma. She has an interest in inducible laryngeal obstruction and is involved in the Alfred Hospital ILO clinic and Exercise-induced Laryngeal Obstruction Service. She has recently completed her PhD in the area of Severe Asthma and is engaged in post-doctoral research collaborations with the International Severe Asthma Registry examining real-world response to asthma biologics and with the Australasian Severe Asthma Registry examining the impact of comorbidities on severe asthma.