Congratulations to Anne Holland on TSANZ appointment!

Professor Anne Holland

Congratulations to Professor Anne Holland, Head of the Department of Respiratory Research@Alfred in Central Clinical School, who has been appointed as the President-Elect for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ). 

The TSANZ is the peak body representing health professionals and researchers working in respiratory medicine, with key roles in advancing clinical practice, research and advocacy for respiratory health in Australia and New Zealand. 

Prof Holland will be the first allied health professional to serve as President of TSANZ. She will serve a 2- year term as President, beginning in March 2023. 

Prestigious TSANZ Society medal awarded to Professor Anne Holland

Professor Anne Holland in clinic

Congratulations to Professor Anne Holland, who has been awarded the prestigious Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) Society Medal!  

The Society Medal was conceived as an acknowledgement of excellence in fields other than research, i.e. for the advancement of the practice of thoracic medicine in its widest sense by outstanding teaching or advocacy, and first awarded in 1992. 

Professor Holland is Professor of Physiotherapy at Monash University and Alfred Health in Melbourne, and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow. 

Congratulations to Dr Kirk Kee for TSANZ win

Congratulations to Dr Kirk Kee, Department of Allergy, Immunology and respiratory medicine, who won the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand 2015 Annual Scientific meeting best abstract in Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep for: “Effect of Sleep Disordered Breathing and Inspired Carbon Dioxide on Work and Cost of Breathing during Sleep in Humans with Heart Failure”. Authors: Kee K, Sand SA, Stuart-Andrews CR, Edwards BA, Skuza EM, Roebuck TR, Thompson BR, Hamilton G, Berger PJ, Naughton MT.

2013 Thoracic Society Australia and New Zealand awards for PhD student

Dr Jeremy Wrobel won two awards from the recent TSANZ Annual Scientific Meeting this year in Darwin, for his research on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD):

Finalist, Ann Woolcock Young Investigator Award for "Positive pressure ventilation increases pulmonary vascular tone and reduces stroke volume in COPD".