Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

I confess to being very vague about where my career was heading when I entered university.

I was eventually influenced greatly by taking up an Asthma Foundation Summer Vacation Scholarship at the end of my BSc. I worked at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in the Department of Respiratory Medicine for ten weeks. That led me to doing my Honours year at PMH - a joint project between Physiology and the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, UWA.

I then worked at PMH as a research assistant for a couple of years before undertaking my PhD, which involved developing a new technique for measuring lung function in infants. I've remained in the asthma and lung diseases research field ever since.

Medical research is a fascinating career. The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research is a very stimulating environment in which to work, and provides the opportunity to meet many fascinating and eminent scientists.