Alana Harper
Program Manager
BSc (hons)
alana.harper@telethonkids.org.au
+61 8 6319 1617
Alana Harper is a Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist and a Program Manager within the Children's Lung Health team at The Kids Research Institute Australia. Alana has over ten years experience in management and coordination of respiratory based projects in both a clinical and research setting.
For the last six years she has been working on various Cystic Fibrosis projects which aim to improve long term outcomes for children with CF.
Projects
Western Australia Paediatric Bronchiectasis Cohort
Bronchiectasis is a chronic lung disease that impairs quality of life and reduces life expectancy.
Published research
Normative data for multiple breath washout outcomes in school-aged Caucasian children
The multiple breath nitrogen washout (N2MBW) technique is increasingly used to assess the degree of ventilation inhomogeneity in school-aged children with lung disease. However, reference values for healthy children are currently not available.
Normative multiple-breath washout data in school-aged children corrected for sensor error
Quality of life is poorly correlated to lung disease severity in school-aged children with cystic fibrosis
There is no data exclusively on the relationship between health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) and lung disease severity in early school-aged children with cystic fibrosis (CF). Using data from the Australian Respiratory Early Surveillance Team for Cystic Fibrosis (AREST CF) we assessed the relationships between HRQOL, lung function and structure.
Education and Qualifications
- BSc (hons) Physiology - Otago University
- PGDipMedTech Sleep Medicine (Distinction) - Otago University
- PGCert Paediatric Sleep - University of Western Australia