Lead Chief Investigator

Natasha is a respiratory physician and professor of respiratory medicine at the Alfred Hospital, Head of the Chronic Respiratory Disease Research group at the Central Clinical School (Monash University) and principal research fellow at Monash University. Natasha has clinical and research interests in caring for people with advanced respiratory illnesses particularly managing challenging symptoms such as severe breathlessness. She established and led the Advanced Lung Disease Service at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and now leads the Breathlessness & Advanced Respiratory Disease Clinic at the Alfred Hospital (Melbourne). Learn more about Natasha here.

Chief Investigator

Lena is the Head of Department of General Practice, Director of Teaching and Learning, and co-lead of the Children and Young People's Research Stream at the University of Melbourne. She was also a Research Program Leader in the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre (2011-2016) which researched the potential of technology to improve the mental health and clinical service system for youth. She has been a CI on 5 RCTs of health service interventions in primary care, including leading a large randomised trial in general practice of an intervention re-orientating primary care toward a young person-centred, preventive care model, using evidence based strategies for learning and change in practice-systems and clinical practice. Lena is a GP and expert advisor to the Victorian Government on the GPs in secondary schools program. Learn more about Lena here.

Chief Investigator

Jennifer is the Chair of Palliative Medicine, University of Melbourne, St. Vincent’s Hospital and the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Alliance. Jenny is a palliative care physician, researcher and teacher whose particular areas of interest include improving the ways supportive and palliative care are delivered. Her work is focused upon building research capability and ensuring all care provided to people with advanced disease is informed by evidence and delivered by people who are well-trained, supported and passionate about what they do. Learn more about Jennifer here.

Chief Investigator

Anna worked as a palliative medicine consultant at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and in 2019 was appointed Lecturer (Honorary Consultant) in Palliative and End of Life Care at the University of Cambridge. She is the Lead Consultant for the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service. Anna’s research focuses on brief, community-based complex interventions for the management of intractable fatigue and breathlessness in chronic disease. She is developing and evaluating conceptual models that describe vicious cycles of emotional and behavioural responses to breathlessness and fatigue; the models can explain symptom perpetuation and facilitate intervention. Learn more about Anna here.