Our Board and Committees
About
We are a professional society focused on facilitating research into pulmonary hypertension. We help educate members on the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
Our members include cardiologists, respiratologists, immunologists, rheumatologists, nurses and allied health professionals.
We are managed by a Board of Directors and are supported by a number of specialist committees who are dedicated to bringing their expertise to the society.
Our Board
Dr Helen Whitford
Respiratory & Sleep Medicine Specialist, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne.
Dr John Feenstra
Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Specialist | Prince Charles and Wesley Hospitals. Senior Lecturer of Medicine - UQ, Notre Dame and Bond University.
A/Prof Robert Weintraub
Paediatric Cardiologist - Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne | Associate Professor in Paedistrics - University of Melbourne | Head of Heart Transplant and Pulmonary Hypertension Service, RCH
Prof Geoff Strange
University of Notre Dame, Faculty of Medicine (with research interests in Registries, Echocardiography, Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) and Pulmonary Hypertension). Research team (CHD) at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Co PI National Echocardiographic Database of Australia (NEDA) study, the world's largest Echo database. Director of Mozaic Solutions.
Dr Eugene Kotlyar
Clinical Trials Cardiologist in heart failure, cardiac transplantation and pulmonary hypertension, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of NSW, Sydney.
Dr Melanie Lavender
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Royal Perth Hospital; Pulmonary Hypertension Specialist, Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Unit, Fiona Stanley Hospital.
A/Prof Susanna Proudman
Senior Rheumatology Consultant, Royal Adelaide Hospital; Associate Professor in Medicine, University of Adelaide; Chair of the Australian Scleroderma Interest Group (their tissue bank is in Adelaide); Medical Director of Arthritis Australia.
Dr Ken Whyte
Respiratory and Transplant Physician, Auckland City Hospital. With Arthur Coverdale, initiated the Pulmonary Vascular Service under the auspices of the New Zealand Heart and Lung Transplant Service, originally at Greenland Hospital, Auckland.
Dr David Playford
Professor of Cardiology at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle and runs the undergraduate Cardiology teaching program. He is the Professor of Cardiology at the Mount Hospital, and is actively involved in clinical management of pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease. He is the co-principal investigator (with A/Prof. Geoff Strange) in the National Echo Database Australia (NEDA).
Prof Trevor Williams
Victoria Clinical Director of the Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRmed), The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Melbourne.
Dr Jeremy Wrobel
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Advanced Lung Disease Unit, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth.
Dr Edmund Lau
Respiratory Physician, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital; Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney; Medical Director of the PHSANZ Registry.
Dr Peter Steele
Director of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital; Chair of the Specialist Training Committee (Cardiology), RACP; Director of the National Heart Foundation (SA).
Dr Claire Ellender
Board member Claire Ellender
Our Committees
Executive Committee
Dr. Helen Whitford (President)
A/Prof. Robert Weintraub (General Secretary)
Dr. John Feenstra (Treasurer)
Prof. Geoff Strange (CEO)
Advocacy Committee
A/Prof. Ken Whyte (Chair)
Kevin Burke (PHA representative)
Sharon. Gavioli (Lung Foundation representative)
A/Prof. Eugene Kotlyar
Prof. Geoff Strange
Prof. Trevor Williams
Registry Committee
Dr. Melanie Lavender (Chair)
Dr. Edmund Lau
Dr. Nicholas Collins
Dr. Nathan Dwyer
Dr. John Feenstra
Dr. James Anderson
Dr. Dominic Keating
A/Prof. Eugene Kotlyar
Dr. Tanya McWilliams
Prof. Geoff Strange
Dr. Vivek Thakkar
A/Prof. Robert Weintraub
Dr. Helen Whitford
A/Prof. Susanna Proudman
Research and Scientific Committee
Dr. Jeremy Wrobel (Chair)
Dr. Andrew Burns
Dr. John Feenstra
Dr. Edmund Lau
Prof. Norman Morris
Prof. Paul Reynolds
Prof. Geoff Strange
Dr. Vivek Thakkar
Education Committee
Dr. Helen Whitford
Dr. Clare Ellender
Dr. Nathan Dwyer
Dr. Anne Marie Chiffin
Dr. Vivek Thakkar
A/Prof. Rob Weintraub