Jane is currently working as a Respiratory Nurse Consultant, at St George’s NHS Trust, London and is also the PCRS research lead.
Jane has worked across many respiratory healthcare settings, including primary care and within Higher Educational Institutions. Jane completed her PhD in 2022 on the barriers and enablers to pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with COPD from primary care.
Her clinical interests relate to COPD, specifically improving health outcomes for those living with COPD and supporting health care professionals that care for this population.

Jane is also particularly interested in empowering others and mobilising evidence into practice, she supports these passions through her clinical employment, PCRS affiliation and is also on the BTS PR advisory committee.

Helen Ashdown is an academic GP at the University of Oxford, where she has both a clinical and research interest in primary care respiratory medicine. Her research focuses on early and accurate diagnosis of airways disease (asthma and COPD) in primary care, particularly using biomarkers and novel technology to identify disease at an earlier stage and give patients the correct treatment for them and their disease, in a personalised way rather than a one-sized-fits-all approach. She is Co-Lead of the Respiratory Theme of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Community Healthcare, and collaborates with industry around evidence generation for new technology in primary care. She is Research Lead of the Primary Care Respiratory Society and a member of Policy Forum, Executive and Conference Committees. She is an honorary GP at Beaumont Elms Practice in Oxford where she is Respiratory Lead, and she also sits on various ICB Respiratory committees. She is Tutor in Clinical Medicine at Somerville College, Oxford. Outside of work, she enjoys climbing mountains and travel, now with children in tow.

Andy has over 20 years’ experience of academic research and his main research interest are respiratory epidemiology and primary care. He is a Senior Epidemiologist at Observational & Pragmatic Research Institute (OPRI UK). Prior to joining OPRI he worked at University of Birmingham (2011-2021) conducting national and international respiratory research studies, and before that he conducted various primary care research studies at University of Exeter (2003-2011) where he completed his PhD.