Organising Committee

Dr Dimitar Sajkov MD, MMSc, DSc, PhD, FCCP. FRACP – (Flinders University, SA) – Committee Chair

Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Institute (ARASMI); Senior Consultant, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (Inc. Flinders Medical Centre); Senior Lecturer at Flinders University; Medical Director of Southern Sleep network.


Prof. Eli Gabbay MBBS, PhD, FRACP – (University of Notre Dame, WA)

Professor of Respiratory Medicine at The University of Notre Dame and Chair of Research. Clinical Professor at The University of Western Australia Medical School and Associate Professor at Curtin University School of Physiotherapy. Head of the Advanced Lung Disease and Pulmonary Vascular Unit at the Lung Institute of Western Australia. Chair of the Australian Lung Foundation experts group on pulmonary vascular disease and interstitial lung disease.


Dr Jeff Bowden BMBS, PhD, FCCP, FRACP – (Flinders University, SA)

Director, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (Inc. Flinders Medical Centre); Senior Lecturer at Flinders University. Medical Director at the Australian Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Institute (ARASMI).


Prof. Nikolai Petrovsky MBBS, PhD, FRACP – (Flinders University, SA)

Professor of Medicine at Flinders University of South Australia. Director of Endocrinology at Flinders Medical Centre. Founder and Research Director of Vaxine Pty Ltd. Secretary-General of the International Immunomics Society. Main areas of research interest: immunoinformatics, vaccinology and autoimmune diseases. Active in translational research taking four novel vaccines from the lab to human clinical trials, including the world’s first recombinant H1N1/2009 pandemic vaccine.


Dr Subash Heraganahally MBBS, MD, FCCP, FRACP – (Charles Darwin University, NT)

Director, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital. Director of Darwin Respiratory and Sleep health service. Lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, the NT Medical School, Charles Darwin University/Royal Darwin Hospital.