Event Details

Join us for this VIC Branch Dinner Meeting with Professor Omar Usmani

Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025

Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Venue: Aunty Kim's, 92-94 Johnston Street, Collingwood Victoria 3066

We are delighted to host Professor Omar Usmani from the UK for an engaging evening exploring the latest developments in inhaler technologies and patient management in airways disease.

Topic: Developments in airways disease: inhaler technologies and patient management

Speaker: Professor Omar Usmani

Chair: Professor Natasha Smallwood

Speaker Biography: Omar Usmani MB BS, PhD, FHEA, FRCP FERS, is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Consultant Physician at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London (ICL), Royal Brompton Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital London. 

He is an International Authority on Aerosol Science, Inhalation Medicine, Lung Physiology and Respiratory Pharmacology whose translational research has fundamentally changed the understanding of therapeutic aerosol deposition and clinical effectiveness in inhaled drug delivery to the lungs. 

He is currently President of ISAM (International Society of Aerosols in Medicine) 2023-2025, and was voted the next ERS Science Council Chair starting office  at the forthcoming ERS Congress 2025-208

He had received several awards:

• 2005 NHLI Imperial College PhD Prize for the Best Thesis
• 2015 Thomas T Mercer Award from the American Association of Aerosol Research (AAAR) and the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM)
• 2019 Fellowship of the European Respiratory Society (FERS)

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Attendee Criteria

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