Medical Scientists: Professor Ann Woolcock

Professor Ann Woolcock was a medical scientist who researched about the function of lungs when affected by asthma. She was the first scientist to write the national procedures for asthma management, the Australian Asthma Management plan in 1989. She founded the Institute of Respiratory Medicine which is in Royal Price Alfred Hospital in Sydney in 1985 which was then renamed to Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in her remembrance in August 2002. The inspiring thing about Professor Ann Woolcock is that she along with the aid of her husband and a few other people opened up a research centre for respiratory medicine. This allows training clinicians to have an interest in the area of research where they are many patients with different types