Welcome to Associate Professor Yet Hong Khor

Associate Professor Yet Hong Khor starts with
Central Clinical School on 1 Jan 2022, in the
Department of Respiratory Research@Alfred

Professor Terry O'Brien, Head of Central Clinical School, writes:

It gives me great pleasure and excitement to announce the recruitment Dr Yet Hong Khor to the academic Monash University appointment as Associate Professor and NHMRC Investigator Grant Emerging Leadership Fellow in the Respiratory Research@Alfred section of the Department of Immunology and Pathology in the Central Clinical School. 

Yet is an outstanding early career clinical respiratory researcher, who has a rapidly emerging research trajectory and profile for her clinical research into chronic lung disease.

This is affirmed by her being awarded this year a highly competitive NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant (success rate <15% nationally). Yet holds clinical appointments as a respiratory physician at both Austin and Alfred Health working in chronic lung disease services of both health services, which complements her growing research programs in these patient populations and she will continue these appointments after she takes up her position at Monash University.  

Yet is a medical graduate from the University of Tasmania (BMedSci 2005, MB, BS 2007). She did her post-graduate general medicine and specialty respiratory training at The Austin, RMH and Western Health, attaining her FRACP in 2015. She was appointed as a consultant respiratory physician at The Austin in 2015 (where she was appointed as Lead for the Oxygen Therapy Service in 2017) and The Alfred in 2016 (Interstitial Lung Disease service). She graduated with her PhD in 2019 from the University of Melbourne, undertaken through at the Institute of Breathing and Sleep at the Austin, for which she was awarded a prestigious NHMRC Post Graduate Scholarship. She then undertook a fellowship at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Canada, supported by an Australian Endeavour Scholarship, and has subsequently returned to start a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Breathing and Sleep at the Austin/University of Melbourne.

Yet has already published more than 41 peer-reviewed papers (29 as first/senior author) which have already been highly cited. She has successfully been awarded 16 competitive grants (15 as a principal investigator) and 3 commercial grants totalling almost $1M, including her recent NHMRC Early Career Leadership grant. Her main research interests include risk prediction and disease burden management in interstitial lung disease. She is the co-Chair of the Clinical Care and Resources Subcommittee and the Deputy Convener of the Orphan Lung Diseases, Lung Transplant, Interstitial lung Disease and Pulmonary Vascular Disease (OLIV) Special Interest Group for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Associate Professor Yet Hong Khor will start her new appointment with Monash University 1 January 2022. She will be based on Level 4 of the Alfred Centre with the rapidly growing, dynamic group of chronic lung disease researchers in Respiratory Research@Alfred under the leadership of Professor Anne Holland, which includes the recent recruitment of A/Prof. Natasha Smallwood and A/Prof. Rebecca Disler. 

Please join with me in congratulating, and welcoming Yet to Monash University and The Central Clinical School.