SHIFTing Focus Editorial Team
Prof Claire Wainwright, Paediatric Respiratory Physician and Co-Lead for Statewide CF Services, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane; Professor, Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia
Prof Claire Wainwright is a paediatric respiratory physician and Co-Lead for CF services at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane which manages around 450 children with CF across Queensland and northern NSW. She is a Professor of paediatrics and child health at the University of Queensland and her research interests include clinical trials, development of lung disease in CF, airway microbiology, and patient reported outcomes in CF.
A/Prof Keith Ooi, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Sydney Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia
Keith Chee Y. Ooi (MBBS, Dip Paeds, FRACP, AGAF, PhD) is a fully tenured Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales and a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist at Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick, Australia. He has published >100 journal articles and has authored several authoritative and international textbook chapters in CF, paediatric gastroenterology and pancreatology.
His areas of clinical and research expertise are in CF gastroenterology and nutrition. His research includes gut microbiome and inflammation studies, and he currently leads the PEARL-CF study (a multicentre RCT evaluating probiotics in young children with CF) as well as his seminal study in unravelling the complex genotype phenotype correlations for CFTR-related pancreatitis. He also has expertise in the field of diagnostic issues and challenges in CF and co-authored the recent updated guidance on the management of children with CRMS/CFSPID.
A/Prof Charles Verge, Endocrinologist, Sydney Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, Australia
Charles Verge is an Endocrinologist at Sydney Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor at University of New South Wales. His clinical and research interests include the use of continuous glucose monitoring in the diagnosis of CF-related Diabetes, and the early introduction of insulin therapy in CF Insulin Deficiency.
Dr Tonia Douglas, Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Physician and Co-director for Paediatric CF Services, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Australia
Dr Tonia Douglas is the Co-director for Paediatric CF services in Queensland and Chair of the TSANZ special interest group (SIG) and the Australian CF Centre Directors group. She is a senior clinical lecturer with the University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Unit, and her research interests include early lung disease in CF and psychosocial health in children and adolescents with CF.