Professor Natasha Smallwood
Prof Natasha Smallwood is a respiratory physician and professor of respiratory medicine at the Alfred Hospital, Head of the Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Lab at the Central Clinical School (Monash university) and principal research fellow at Monash University. In addition to her respiratory qualifications, she holds postgraduate qualifications in Palliative Care and Epidemiology.
Prof Smallwood holds various major research grants including a NHMRC Investigator grant and fellowship research grant from the Windermere foundation. She has clinical and research interests in breathlessness and severe lung disease, particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Natasha also established and leads a specialist integrated respiratory and palliative care clinical service. As a ‘frontline” healthcare worker she designed and co-led the Australian COVID-19 Frontline Health Workers study, which is the largest multi-professional, national study that has examined the psychosocial effects of the pandemic on health workers.
Natasha is a Board Director for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), the Victorian TSANZ branch president and serves on multiple national committees for TSANZ, the Lung Foundation Australia and the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative. Additionally, she is a taskforce member for various national and international respiratory guidelines.