Dr Lata Jayaram is a Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician. She completed her medical and specialist training in New Zealand. She then undertook a clinical research fellowship at McMaster University, Canada, focusing on the measurement of airway inflammation and its clinical application. Lata returned to Australia and completed her training in Sleep Medicine at the Adelaide Institute of Sleep Health and her PhD in asthma and airway inflammation. She currently practices at Western Health, the University of Melbourne and with the Sleep and Respiratory Group.