TSANZ SIG Orals: Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep
Tracks
Track 6
Monday, March 25, 2024 |
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
Central B (via Exhibition) |
Speaker
Dr Sheikh M Alif
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Melbourne University and Federation University
Race and ethnicity in lung function reference equation for spirometry: a systematic review
3:30 PM - 3:45 PMBiography
Dr Sheikh M Alif is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University Australia and a Research Fellow of Respiratory Science at the University of Melbourne. He is an academic and clinical epidemiologist with a PhD in clinical epidemiology and population health from the esteemed University of Melbourne. He also has an MPH in Epidemiology and a clinical background in Dental Surgery. His research focuses on respiratory health, occupational lung diseases, and exposure science. Dr Alif has contributed to over 40 peer-reviewed publications and several nationally impactful technical reports. With over 14 years of teaching experience in several public health subjects at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and overseas, he has coordinated multiple units, including health promotion, planetary health, occupational and environmental medicine, epidemiology of chronic diseases, advanced epidemiology, and biostatistics.
Miss Julia Casella
Research Assistant
Telethon Kids Institute
Lung clearance index is elevated in children and adolescents with bronchiectasis
3:45 PM - 4:00 PMBiography
Julia Casella completed her undergraduate degree in physiology with honours in medical research at the University of Western Australia in 2022. Julia is now working as a research assistant as part of the Western Australian Paediatric Bronchiectasis Cohort at the Telethon Kids Institute and Perth Children's Hospital.
Dr Y Jane Choi
Research Associate
University of Western Australia
Developing an extremely preterm lamb model for preterm lung-brain axis studies.
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Dr Jane Choi recently completed her PhD at the University of Western Australia and Telethon Kids Institute. Her research focuses on simple interventions to target pulmonary inflammation and oxidative stress arising during early life.
Dr Emma Gray
VMO
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Hypercapnia is not excluded by normoxia in neuromuscular disease patients: implications for oximetry.
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
Dr Emma Gray is a visiting medical officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital working in the asthma and motor neurone disease multidisciplinary clinics. When she is not looking after three young children and her clinic patients, she is undertaking a PhD looking at various aspects of respiratory insufficiency in MND.
Mr Timothy Howarth
Researcher
Darwin Respiratory and Sleep Health / University of Eastern Finland
Nocturnal desaturation and resaturation parameters are significantly influenced by lung function independent of lung diseases
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Timothy is currently finalising his PhD through Charles Darwin University. Timothy has worked in Indigenous Australian health related to developmental origins of health and disease, childhood anaemia, chronic lung disease and sleep disorders. Timothy recently moved to Finland to continue work in the sleep field with the Sleep Revolution consortium.
Assoc Prof Suzanne Munns
Assoc. Prof Biomedicine
James Cook University
Validation studies of spirometry reference equations under-represent at-risk populations.
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
A/Prof Suzy Munns leads the Pulmonary Health in The Tropics (PHiTT) Research Group, a collaborative team of researchers from JCU, Townsville University Hospital. A/Prof Munns’ research focuses on improving early and accurate diagnosis of non-communicable respiratory diseases and improving outcomes for patients and health systems.
Dr Kaj Blokland
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
Chairperson
3:30 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Dr Blokland has research interests in cell biology, airway physiology, chronic airways and lung disease, with a special interest in fixed airway obstruction. His expertise includes complex measures of lung function, 3D imaging and molecular and cell biology
Dr Anna Hudson
Senior Research Fellow
Flinders University
Chairperson
3:30 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
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