Organising Committee

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

Founding Director of the Australian Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Institute (ARASMI). CHEST Global Governor for Australia. Director of Southern Sleep service in Adelaide. Senior Consultant, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. Senior Lecturer at Flinders University.


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 at Notre Dame Medical School. 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 and chair of the Heart and Lung Transplant Foundation of WA.


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, Repatriation General Hospital and Noarlunga Hospital); Senior Lecturer at Flinders University. Director of 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.


Assoc. Prof. Hubertus Jersmann MBBS, FRACP – (Adelaide University, SA)

Senior Respiratory and Sleep Consultant at the Royal Adelaide Hospital with interest in basic respiratory research and interventional pulmonology. Teaching coordinator for Respiratory Medicine at the University of Adelaide.