Dr. Danielle F. Wurzel is a Respiratory Consultant at The Royal Children’s Hospital, an Early Career Researcher within the Allergy and Lung Health Unit at The University of Melbourne, and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She has clinical expertise in the assessment and management of acute and chronic respiratory diseases in children. Dr. Wurzel completed a Ph.D. in chronic wet cough and bronchiectasis, and her ongoing research investigates the role of respiratory infections in the pathogenesis of paediatric chronic lung diseases. She leads a number of NHMRC/MRFF-funded studies and is a CIA on an NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort multi-centre study to investigate the early life risk factors for lung disease in First Nations (Indigenous) Australian children. Dr. Wurzel is a member of several sub-committees and working groups including the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Lung Foundation Australia and Therapeutic Guidelines Limited.
Jennifer L. Perre is a physician-trained respiratory and sleep epidemiologist who is undertaking her NHMRC-funded early career fellowship under the supervision of Prof. Shyamali Dharmage at the Allergy and Lung Health Unit (ALHU), Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. She has built on and extended her doctoral work on the host and environmental determinants of reduced lung function in mid-adult life to co-lead a program of work that predicts lung health risks in middle-aged adults.
Caroline J. Lodge is Principal Research Fellow at the Allergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne. Dr. Lodge holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, a Graduate Diploma in Epidemiology, and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. Dr. Lodge's research keywords include asthma, allergic diseases, COPD and lung health in longitudinal cohorts.
Eugene Haydn Walters currently is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in Epidemiology at the Allergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global
Health, The University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania. He graduated in Natural Science and Medicine from Oxford University in 1975 with First-Class Honours. He completed postgraduate medical training and conducted research in the UK, obtaining an FRCP and DM. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at CVRI, University of California San
Francisco, with a Fulbright Senior Scholarship. His fields of research include respiratory diseases, primary health care, and epidemiology not elsewhere classified.
Shyamali C. Dharmage is a Professor and the Head of the Allergy and Lung Health Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne. She holds an M.D. from the University of Colombo and a Ph.D. from Monash University. She also holds membership in other professional societies, including the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Sri Lanka Medical Association, the Public Health Association of Australia, the European Respiratory Society, etc.
