Speakers, 2025 Dust and Respiratory Health Forum
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| Professor of Medicine and Director of Occupational Lung Disease at Northwestern University and for more than 30 years has practiced clinical pulmonary medicine, particulary for diseases related to work-place or environmental exposures. |
 | Professor of Mining and Minerals Engineering, Virginia Tech |
 | Lead of the Total Deposit Knowledge research group and acting director of the WH Bryan Mining Geology Research Centre at UQ's Sustainable Minerals Insitute. He is currently working on a three-year program: Advancing Dust Exposure Assessment through Enhanced Microscopy-Based Characterisation |
 | Research Fellow at the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre at UQ's Sustainable Minerals Institute. Dr LaBranche specialises in occupational health and safety research for the mining industry. She is currently working on characterisation of dust exposures in the mining and engineered stone work industries and its relation to occupational lung dieseases. |
 | Lauren Williams Research Lead for the Occupational Lung Disease Program at Lung Foundation Australia. Lauren's focus currently is to advance lung disease research through strategic initiatives that foster collaboration and innovation on a national level. Lauren is a Chief Investigator on collaborative research projects with Monash University, focused on establishing the national research agenda for occupational lung diseases. She also leads the strategy and development of an occupational respiratory rapid response protocol, a systemic tool for disease prevention. |
