Paul Dawkins is a Respiratory Physician at Middlemore Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine at University of Auckland. He is immediate past President of the NZ Branch of TSANZ and is a director on the main TSANZ Board. He chairs the TSANZ Professional Standards subcommittee and TSANZ workforce working party. He sits on the TSANZ Lung Cancer Working Party, focussing on nodule guidelines and survivorship, and the TSANZ Lung Cancer Screening Clinical Practice Guideline group. He is clinical lead for lung cancer at Middlemore and is a member and past chair of the National Lung Cancer Working Group and Northern Cancer Network lung tumour stream. He is on the national planning and governance group for the Aotearoa Lung Screening Programme, including pathways and nodule management. He worked for 6 years as a Respiratory Physician in West Midlands (UK) before leaving to work in New Zealand in 2013.

Ms Catherine Buchan is a respiratory and sleep nurse consultant at Alfred Health and a clinician researcher and PhD Candidate at Monash University. She holds post graduate qualifications in critical care and masters of nursing science. She is a member of the TSANZ professional standards subcommittee, respiratory nurse specialisation recognition working party and Australian convenor of respiratory nurse special interest group. She is the president-elect of the Victorian TSANZ branch, having served on the committee for 2 years, including as secretary. She has previously served on the clinical care and resources subcommittee and TSANZ oxygen clinical practice guidelines. She serves on the steering committee of the Australia and New Zealand respiratory audit program. In 2025, Catherine was awarded the title of TSANZ fellow.

Dr Nicole Goh is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. She trained as a specialist respiratory and sleep medicine physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Austin Hospital in Melbourne before completing her training at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. She obtained her PhD at the Imperial College in London (UK) on “prognostic evaluation of interstitial lung disease secondary to systemic sclerosis.

Nicole works at the Austin and Alfred Hospitals as a respiratory and sleep medicine physician. She manages all respiratory and sleep disorders but has a particular interest in interstitial lung diseases. She is the Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Service at the Austin Hospital.

Professor Andrew Chan is a Consultant Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician.  He is a Senior Staff Specialist in the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Sleep Health and Research at the Royal North Shore Hospital.  He is a Clinical Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health at The University of Sydney.

A national and international leader in his field, Professor Chan is the Australian Branch Board Director and President of the New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand.  He is a Leader of the Sleep Health Clinical Academic Group at Sydney Health Partners.  He contributes to the global research community as Associate Editor for SLEEP Advances, an official medical journal of the Sleep Research Society and the Australasian Sleep Association, published by Oxford University Press, and an Associate Editor for Breathe, a clinical educational publication of the European Respiratory Society.

Professor Chan is a member of the Australasian Sleep Association, the American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, the American College of Chest Physicians and the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology.  He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, a Certified Health Informatician Australasia and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Associate Professor Katrina Tonga is a Senior Staff Specialist in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Clinical Lead of the Severe Asthma Service at Westmead Hospital, and Associate Professor at the Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney. She is a medical graduate of the University of Otago and completed her PhD at the University of Sydney. She is also a Research Affiliate of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.

A/Prof Tonga holds senior leadership and governance roles at state and national levels. She is a Board Director of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and a former President of its NSW/ACT Branch (2024–2025), contributing to strategic direction and professional standards. She has also held key roles within the American Thoracic Society and other national committees.

She is a clinical and academic leader with expertise in severe asthma and COPD, with a strong track record in research, education, and service leadership. She is passionate about improving respiratory health and working collaboratively to deliver meaningful impact.