Dr Collette Menadue is a senior physiotherapist within the Respiratory Support Service at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. She has worked in the area of sleep, respiratory failure and non-invasive ventilation (NIV) for over 20 years and completed her PhD in the area of NIV during exercise in 2010. Collette supervises PhD and honours research students and current research interests include NIV during exercise in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory assessment and management of people with motor neurone disease, the effects of positive airway pressure therapy in people with overlap syndrome and infection control and NIV.

Leona is a senior exercise physiologist in the pulmonary rehabilitation program at Austin Health in Melbourne. She completed her PhD in ‘Therapeutic interventions in interstitial lung disease. Exercise training and supplemental oxygen’ through the La Trobe University, Melbourne. For her PhD she led a multi‐site randomised controlled trial which defined the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation for ILD across disease subgroups, published in 2017 in Thorax. Leona currently holds a postdoctoral position Monash University, under Prof Anne Holland.

Elisio is a physiotherapist and lecturer in physiotherapy at University of South Australia. Dr Elisio is an early career researcher with experience in blood restricted exercise training for people living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Professor Norman Morris holds a joint research position as The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane and Griffith University on the Gold Coast. His program of research examines the factors that limit, and interventions that improve, exercise tolerance in individuals with chronic heart and lung disease and is undertaken in both clinical and laboratory-based settings.

Mariana Hoffman is a research fellow with expertise in pulmonary rehabilitation, oxygen therapy and inspiratory muscle training. Mariana is a physiotherapist by background, master in adapted physical activity and doctor in rehabilitation sciences.

My research aims to understand respiratory physiology and the extent and nature of respiratory motor impairment, for example in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and healthy ageing. I am most well known for single motor unit recordings from human respiratory muscles.

Arwel is a research fellow at the Respiratory Research@Alfred group of Monash University. He is currently the convenor of the COPD and Evidence-Based Medicine and Practice Special Interest Groups of TSANZ. Arwel’s main research interests are in the treatment and prevention of respiratory infections and exacerbations of chronic lung disease, which involves work in the areas of pulmonary rehabilitation, infection control, oral corticosteroids and vaccination.