💬“It was surprising that #wheezing was the most common symptom of people on impaired #lung function trajectories, rather than cough, phlegm or breathing difficulty,” Jennifer L. Perret, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, at UniMelb MDHS, told Healio. ALHU ⬇️ healio.com/news/pulmonolo…

🌏Respirology Lifetime #BodyMassIndex Trajectories and Contrasting #LungFunction Abnormalities in Mid-Adulthood: Data From the Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study Shyamali C Dharmage , GULSHAN BANO ALI ALHU onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…

Check out this new paper led by Jennifer Perret in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine! It reveals that wheezing is the most common symptom in people with impaired lung function trajectories—more than cough, phlegm, or breathing difficulty. 👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Also featured in @HealioPlum

🥳Congratulations to our Head of Unit, Prof. Shyamali Dharmage Shyamali C Dharmage who has received a 2025 NHMRC Investigator Grant for her program of work titled " A life course approach to early detection and interventions to stop Pre-COPD".👏

Early-to-Midlife #BodyMassIndex Trajectories and #ObstructiveSleepApnoea Risk 10 Years Later ALHU YAOYAO QIAN onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re… Follow #Respirology on Bluesky: @respirology.bsky.social

Good news! My article received enough citations to be a Top Cited Article published by Clinical and Experimental Allergy in 2023. Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #TopCitedArticle Wiley in research

🎉Congrats to Natalie Chia-Lun Chang✨.  📢Her first PhD paper is published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.  📄Reduced levels of "POS ceramides" (skin lipids) were associated with the development of #atopicdermatitis. 👉🏼Read here: bit.ly/43qBdfN 📡In the Media: bit.ly/41IyNqE

#tsanzsrsasm2025 Tune in for the TSANZ Symposium: Chronic cough – where are we now?, charied by our unit head Shyamali C Dharmage and Daniel.

Our PhD candidate, JiachengLiu, is presenting at the #tsanzsrsasm2025, "Risk factors for impaired FEF25-75% trajectories and future COPD risk in middle age."

#tsanzsrs2025 Daniel is presenting at the same COPD session, the talk is about "Concavity of the maximal expiratory flow-volume curve and incidence of COPD and respiratory symptoms".

#tsanzsrs2025 Now at the Occupational & Environmental Lung Disease / Population Health session, Emeritus Prof Michael Abramson is presenting "Respiratory symptoms either resolve or persist 9 years after PM2.5 exposure from the Hazelwood coal mine fire."

My presentation at #tsanzsrs2025

Emeritus Professor Michael Abramson is presenting at the #tsanzsrs2025 symposium: Health challenges in the era of climate change.

#tsanzsrs2025 Our PhD candidate YAOYAO QIAN is presenting her research titled “ Ten year exposure to household air pollution is associated with OSA in middle aged adults.

Coming up, the Ann Woolcock New Investigator Session will start soon. We are so proud that 2 presenters are from our unit, Dr Nur Sabrina Idrose and Dr Daniel ! Wish them good luck🥳 #tsanzsrs2025

Good job Sabrina! #tsanzssrs2025

Excellent talk from Dan 👏

Associations Between #OccupationalExposures and #Cough Subclasses Among Middle-Aged #Australians ALHU Jingwen Zhang onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re… Follow us on Bluesky: @respirology.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to Caroline Lodge and her team Daisy Dai Shyamali C Dharmage Rachel Tham (she/her) Dr Anurika De Silva on receiving a $965K NHMRC TCR – Climate-Related Health Impacts grant! They will explore HEPA filters to improve quality of life for people with asthma during high air pollution events.

🎉 Big congratulations to Daisy Daisy Dai and her team Natasha Smallwood Shyamali C Dharmage Dr Anurika De Silva on receiving a $647K MRFF EMCR grant! Her project OVERNIGHT will use HEPA filters to help reduce exacerbations in older adults with COPD during air pollution events.