Conflicts of Interests

Correct at September 2022

The COPD-X Guidelines Committee is responsible for updating the COPD-X Guidelines. All below-named members of the COPD-X Guidelines Committee are required to lodge declarations of potential conflicts of interest with Lung Foundation Australia on an annual basis. Such disclosures include the receipt of unrestricted educational grants, sponsorship, consultancy or other affiliations with the pharmaceutical, medical equipment or diagnostic industries.

Committee Member

Conflict of interest declaration

 

 

Professor Ian Yang, MBBS(Hons), PhD, FRACP, Grad Dip Clin Epid, FAPSR, FThorSoc, Thoracic Physician, The Prince Charles Hospital and The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD (Co-Chair)

Dr Yang is an employee of The Prince Charles Hospital, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Queensland Health and The University of Queensland. He declares that he has not received consultancy fees or honoraria from pharmaceutical companies, and has not acted as a member of advisory boards for pharmaceutical companies.

Dr Yang has a volunteer role in the COPD-X Guidelines Committee and COPD Clinical Advisory Committee Program of Lung Foundation Australia (http://lungfoundation.com.au/), a not-for-profit public benevolent institution.

His institutions have received project grants and fellowships from the following sources:

  • National Health and Medical Research (NHMRC)
  • Metro North Hospital and Health Service
  • The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation
  • Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland

He is on the editorial boards of Respirology, Respiratory Medicine Today, Journal of Thoracic Disease and the Cochrane Airways Group.

 

Associate Professor Eli Dabscheck, MBBS, M Clin Epi, FRACP, Respiratory and Sleep Physician, Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC (Co-Chair)

 

No conflicts to declare

 

 

Associate Professor Johnson George, BPharm, MPharm, PhD, Grad Cert Higher Education, Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC

Dr Johnson George is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, who is his primary employer.

Dr George has received research funding from Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim via an investigator‐initiated research grant and GSK via investigator‐sponsored grant and consultation fee for unrelated research, paid to his primary employer (Monash University).

Dr George has received in‐kind support from Vitalograph®, the manufacturers of COPD‐6TM, for research.

Dr George has received no personal payments from these organisations.

 

Dr Renae McNamara, PhD, BAppSc(Phty), Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW

 

No conflicts to declare

 

Professor Christine F McDonald, AM, FAHMS, MBBS(Hons), PhD, FRACP, FThorSoc, Director, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, The Austin Hospital, Melbourne, VIC

 

Professor McDonald is a Board Medical Director for the Institute for Breathing and Sleep.

She has received speakers fees from Astra Zeneca and Menarini paid to her primary employer (fee to Austin Health).  She has received in kind support for oxygen trials from Air Liquide (oxygen and sham oxygen).

 

Professor Vanessa McDonald, DipHlthScien (Nurs), BNurs, PhD, FThorSoc, Professor of Chronic Disease and Academic Clinical Nurse Consultant, The University of Newcastle and John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW

 

Professor McDonald earns consultancy fees from GSK related to a Treatable Traits Steering Committee.

She has received speaker fees from AstraZeneca.

 

Professor Brian Smith, MBBS, Dip Clin Ep & Biostats, PhD, FRACP, Staff Specialist, Bendigo Hospital, Bendigo, VIC

 

No conflicts to declare

 

Professor Nick Zwar, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRACGP, Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD

 

Board Member, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service

Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University

Chair, Guidelines Group, National Asthma Council