Dr. Klasko is an author, an entrepreneur and a believer in the creative and optimistic transformation of healthcare and higher education. He has been a CEO of two multibillion-dollar health systems, a university president, and a dean of two highly-ranked medical colleges. Currently, he is pursuing his passion to bridge academic health centers with the emerging world of digital medicine and innovation. As President of Thomas Jefferson University, he directed a merger between an almost two-century-old health science university and a nationally ranked university for design and architecture, heralded by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the “few successful mergers between academic entities.” As CEO of Jefferson Health, he presided over the growth of the system from $1.5 billion to $9 billion including the acquisition of Health Partners Plan, making Jefferson the first integrated delivery and financial system in Philadelphia history. His most recent book, Feelin’ Alright: How the Message in the Music Can Make Healthcare Healthier uses music and creativity to tackle some of the thorniest issues in healthcare and health equity through radical collaboration, radical communication and radical creativity. His fifth book (with Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst) in 2021, UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance has become the manual for both founders and health system CEOs for bringing together the venture capital world with the traditional healthcare ecosystem and has been translated in several languages. Dr. Klasko serves as an Executive in Residence at General Catalyst, North American ambassador for Sheba Medical Center in Israel, and as CMO and Operating Partner of Abundant Venture Partners. He is also the lead independent director of Teleflex (TFX:NYSE), a $15 billion medical device company. In 2022, President Biden appointed him as a director to the National Board of Education Sciences.

Assoc Prof Natasha Smallwood is a consultant respiratory physician at the Alfred Hospital (Melbourne, Australia), Head of the Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Group and Associate Professor at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). In addition to her respiratory qualifications, she holds postgraduate qualifications in Medical Leadership, Epidemiology and Palliative Care. A/Prof Smallwood has authored over 120 publications and been awarded approximately $10 million as major research grants. She has clinical and research interests in severe lung disease, particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A/Prof Smallwood serves as a Board Director for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Victorian Doctors Health Program (Australia), and holds multiple leadership roles. She is a taskforce member for various national and international respiratory guidelines.

Prof Peter Catcheside completed his PhD in exercise physiology and worked in exercise, respiratory and sleep scientific support roles before joining the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health in 1997 and Flinders University in 2012 through an ARC Future Fellowship. He has broad research interests around understanding physiological signals and processes underpinning breathing, sleep and circadian disruption. Current research interests include the development of respiratory physiology-based methods for quantifying airway obstruction and breathing effort during sleep and assisted ventilation, examination of noise and light impacts on sleep, and advancing better evidence-based clinical physiological measurement practices in respiratory and sleep medicine.

Dr Alison Short, PhD, MT-BC, RMT, is an internationally accredited music therapy academic and experienced health services researcher at Western Sydney University, one of only two accredited music therapy programs in Australia. She currently serves on the Council of the World Federation of Music Therapy as Regional Liaison Representative for Australia and New Zealand. As an articulate and passionate advocate for music therapy, Alison constantly seeks new research knowledge for translation into everyday evidence-based training and practice, thereby improving capacity and changing health care practices for the future. Typically working closely with health service providers, her extensive research record spans innovative topics: the auditory environment, fertility treatment, cardiac rehabilitation, cultural aspects of health, and applications of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music. Alison heads up the Music and Health network at Western Sydney University and publishes widely across health and music therapy disciplines, additionally holding an Adjunct Senior Lecturer role with the Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW. Find Dr Short’s research: scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=pDtVBzMAAAAJ&hl=en ; www.researchgate.net/profile/Alison_Short2/contributions

Anne Holland is Professor of Physiotherapy and Head of Respiratory Research at Monash University and Alfred Health in Melbourne, Australia. She leads a research program investigating non-pharmacological treatments for chronic lung disease. Anne is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and President of the TSANZ.

Grace is the Scientific Director for the Mater Health Services Respiratory and Sleep Laboratory in Brisbane, Queensland. She is the current ANZSRS President and Director of Communications. Grace is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of scientist and has an interest in physiology and teaching.