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Jo A. Douglass or Jo Anne Douglass; (born ) is an Australia Australian asthma researcher, Director of Research at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the James Stewart Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine within the Melbourne Medical School. She was awarded an Order of Australia, for her "distinguished service to medical research, to clinical immunology and allergy, to respiratory medicine, and to tertiary education."

Education and Career
Douglass received her undergraduate degree, in Medical Science, and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Monash University, and subsequently completed postgraduate education in London. She was the president of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy from 2010 to 2012, as well as a member of the European Respiratory Society.

Douglass was the head of Department of Immunology and Allergy within the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She specialises in the clinical and research of both asthma and allergic disease, at Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Douglass's research is centered around the clinical and research of asthma and allergies, including thunderstorm asthma, diagonsis using genomic medicine, as well as immune deficiencies.

Publications
Douglass has an H-index of 43, according to Google Scholar, and more than 100 publications as at July 2024. Select examples include:


 * Holgate ST, Douglass JA (eds) (2013) Fast Facts: Asthma (4th Ed) Health Press Ltd ,Oxford UK. 2013
 * Chua JC, Douglass JA, Gillman A, O'Hehir RE, Meeusen EN (2012) Galectin-10, a Potential Biomarker of Eosinophilic Airway Inflammation. PLoS ONE 7(8): e42549. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042549.
 * Thompson BR, Douglass JA, Ellis MJ, Kelly VJ, O'Hehir RE, King GG, Verbanck S. (2013) Peripheral Lung Function in patients with stable and unstable asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2013; 131: 1322-1328.
 * Chen Y, Stirling R, Hore-Lacy F, Thompson B, Douglass JA. (2011) Longitudinal decline in lung function in patients with primary immunoglobulin deficiencies. J Allergy Clinical Immunolology. 127: 1414-7.
 * Douglass, et. al. (2012) Over-the-counter β2-agonist purchase versus script: a cross-sectional study. Respir Med. 2012 Feb;106(2):223-9.
 * Gillman A, Douglass JA. (2010) What do asthmatics have to fear from food and additive allergy? Clinical Exp Allergy 2010; 40: 1295-1302.
 * O'Hehir RE, Gardner LM, de Leon MP, Hales BJ, Biondo M, Douglass JA, et al.. (2009) House dust mite sublingual immunotherapy: the role for transforming growth factor-beta and functional regulatory T cells. Am Journal of Respir Crit Care Med 2009; 180: 936-47.

Awards

 * 2024 - Order of Australia.
 * 2015 - Fellow of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand.
 * 2013 - Fellowship of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand.
 * 1992 - FRACP - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians