A/Prof Vanessa Murphy from the University of Newcastle is a research scientist investigating the characteristics, mechanisms and consequences of asthma exacerbations during pregnancy and their health impact on both the mother and baby. She is deputy chair of the Hunter Medical Research Institute's Asthma and Breathing Program and an MRFF Investigator grant research fellow. Vanessa is an investigator with the Centre of Excellence in Treatable Traits, and led the development of the world-first online resource for both health professionals and families, the Asthma in Pregnancy Toolkit, which was launched in late 2022.

Kathy Chapman Respiratory CNC The Maitland Hospital NSW. Nursing approximately 28 years, with many of them within the discipline of Respiratory Nursing.

Experience:

• Respiratory Liaison Nurse JHH 15 years
• Respiratory CNC level 2 Maitland Hospital 10 years
• Inpatient and outpatient nursing care with COPD, Asthma, Difficult Airway Clinic, Pregnancy and Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis
• Worked with outpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation in community and hospital settings

Education & Membership:

• Master of Nursing Advanced Practice
• TSANZ Respiratory Support Unit Working Party
• TSANZ Nursing Priorities Working Party

Professor Michael Peek is a RANZCOG Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialist with over thirty years’ experience in high risk pregnancies including medical disorders in pregnancy. He has worked at King George V Hospital (Sydney), Queen Charlotte’s and Hammersmith Hospitals (London), The Canberra Hospital (Canberra), King Edward Memorial Hospital (Perth) and Nepean Hospital (Sydney). He holds academic titles with the University of Sydney and the Australian National University. Michael has expertise in multicentre perinatal trials and medical disorders in pregnancy research (clinical and laboratory based). He has over 175 publications in the area and has been a chief investigator on a number of NHMRC/MRFF Trials including AMOSS, BLT, TOBOGM, Turrific and TTAP. He has helped author national guidelines and toolkits on medical disorders in pregnancy including hypertension, rheumatic heart disease, intrahepatic cholestasis and asthma.

A/Prof Eve Denton is a consultant Respiratory, Sleep and Allergy Physician at the Alfred and St Vincent’s hospitals in Melbourne. She is the clinical lead for the Severe Asthma Service at the Alfred Hospital and has completed her PhD in the area of Severe Asthma and is engaged in post-doctoral research collaborations with the International Severe Asthma Registry and with the Australasian Severe Asthma Registry examining response to biologics and the impact of comorbidities on severe asthma.

Vanessa Clark is a post-doctoral researcher in translational asthma research within the Centre for Research Excellence in Severe Asthma. Severe Asthma is a complex disease, which is heterogeneous in it's nature and impacted by several comorbidities and exacerbated by several risk factors. Her recent work focuses around the best approach for the management of severe asthma and how to implement it that approach. This includes a primary care perspective, tertiary care perspective and patient perspective. In 2015 she was awarded a PhD at the University of Newcastle and has a background in psychology (Ba. Psychology, Hons I), and her overall research interests are chronic illness, health behaviours and mental health. Vanessa has experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods. She has experience with multi-centre randomised controlled trials, and research experience with several chronic diseases, including cancer and severe asthma, as well as severe mental disorders.