BMedSc (Hons), MBBS Monash, MD Monash, FRACP, AO
James Stewart Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine, Melbourne Medical School
Director of Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
Prof Jo Douglass is a physician who trained in Respiratory Medicine and Allergy and Clinical Immunology and from 2012 to 2020 was head of The Department of Immunology and Allergy at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 2013 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, an award acknowledging exceptional contribution to Respiratory Health in Australia.
She is an active clinician with clinical practice and teaching in asthma, especially severe asthma, allergic diseases, and Immune Deficiencies. Prof Douglass trained in Medicine at Monash University and undertook postgraduate training and education at Southampton and in London. She is an active researcher with current funded projects in severe asthma, especially Thunderstorm asthma and practice in the genomics of immune deficiencies alongside collaborators at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
She is widely published, with over 100 original publications. She is a past president of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy and is a Fellow of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand. She has served on numerous consumer groups including being current medical advisor to AusPIPs.
Prof Jo Douglass received the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) during 2024 for ‘her distinguished service to medical research, to clinical immunology and allergy, to respiratory medicine, and to tertiary education’.
Email: mail@jodouglass.com
Publications and projects: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/32737-jo-douglass