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Personal profile
Biography
Leona is a senior exercise physiologist in the pulmonary rehabilitation program at Austin Health in Melbourne. She completed her PhD in ‘Therapeutic interventions in interstitial lung disease. Exercise training and supplemental oxygen’ through the La Trobe University, Melbourne. For her PhD she led a multi‐site randomised controlled trial which defined the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation for ILD across disease subgroups, published in 2017 in Thorax.
Leona currently holds a postdoctoral position Monash University, under Prof Anne Holland. Her main role is to develop and conduct the first randomised controlled trial, across four Australian centres, comparing the clinical benefits of a high intensity interval training protocol to the standard continuous exercise training method used in pulmonary rehabilitation in people with fibrotic interstitial lung disease.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Interstitial lung disease
- pulmonary rehabilitation
- Lung Disease
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Prescribing walking training in interstitial lung disease from the 6-minute walk test
Nakazawa, A., Dowman, L. M., Cox, N. S., Brazzale, D. J., McDonald, C. F., Hill, C. J., Lee, A. & Holland, A. E., 3 Apr 2023, In: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 39, 4, p. 873-877 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Attenuation of exertional desaturation and preference for interval exercise compared to continuous exercise in people with interstitial lung disease
Dowman, L. M., May, A. K., Cox, N. S., Morris, N. R., Nakazawa, A., Parker, L., Bondarenko, J. & Holland, A. E., Nov 2021, In: Respirology. 26, 11, p. 1076-1079 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research › peer-review
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Diagnosis and management of connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease in Australia and New Zealand: A position statement from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand*
Jee, A. S., Sheehy, R., Hopkins, P., Corte, T. J., Grainge, C., Troy, L. K., Symons, K., Spencer, L. M., Reynolds, P. N., Chapman, S., de Boer, S., Reddy, T., Holland, A. E., Chambers, D. C., Glaspole, I. N., Jo, H. E., Bleasel, J. F., Wrobel, J. P., Dowman, L., Parker, M. J. S., & 4 others, Jan 2021, In: Respirology. 26, 1, p. 23-51 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access37 Citations (Scopus) -
High intensity interval training versus moderate intensity continuous training for people with interstitial lung disease: protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Dowman, L. M., May, A. K., Hill, C. J., Bondarenko, J., Spencer, L., Morris, N. R., Alison, J. A., Walsh, J., Goh, N. S. L., Corte, T., Glaspole, I., Chambers, D. C., McDonald, C. F. & Holland, A. E., 10 Nov 2021, In: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 21, 1, 9 p., 361.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
Open Access4 Citations (Scopus) -
Pulmonary rehabilitation for interstitial lung disease (Review)
Dowman, L., Hill, C. J., May, A. & Holland, A. E., 1 Feb 2021, In: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2021, 1, 98 p., CD006322.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
88 Citations (Scopus)