IBAS − Institute for Breathing and Sleep

Dr Leona Dowman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University and Senior Exercise Physiologist at Austin Health. She has extensive clinical and research experience in the management of people with interstitial lung disease (ILD), with a particular focus on pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) and the management of oxygen requirements during exercise.
She has led several multi-site randomised controlled trials, including the largest trial of pulmonary rehabilitation in ILD and the first randomised controlled trial of high-intensity interval training versus traditional moderate-intensity continuous training in people with fibrotic ILD. Her current research focuses on optimising pulmonary rehabilitation for people with silicosis and developing radiomic screening approaches to identify people with ILD who are at risk of developing pulmonary hypertension

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