Professor Sheree Smith is an internationally recognised researcher in respiratory care and leads a program of acute care and health services research.

Professor Smith holds the following degrees and certificates: PhD [Public Health, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)]; Master of Social Planning and Development (Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland); Postgraduate Certificate in Health Economics (University of Aberdeen); Bachelor of Nursing (QUT); and a Postgraduate Cardiothoracic Nursing Certificate.

Sheree has received national and international research awards including the inaugural Co-operative Research Centre for Asthma and Asthma Australia PhD top-up scholarship and the first international Post-doctoral Capability Bursary to the University of Oxford’s Department of Primary Health Care and Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. 

Professor Smith is a member of four global respiratory, sleep and critical care organisations; Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand (TSANZ), Asia Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR), European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS). She is a member of the ERS College of Experts and the ATS nursing assembly who identified research priorities for Lung Health, Sleep and Critical Care. Sheree was awarded Fellow of the American Thoracic Society in 2021 and was the first Australian nurse to receive this award.

Professor Smith continues as a member for NHMRC and MRFF panels. Sheree reviews grant and fellowship applications for numerous funding bodies across the globe such as NIHR (UK), Asthma (UK), Medical Research Foundation (UK), European Science Foundation and the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT) and the Swiss government. Sheree has held an Imperial College London Visiting Professorship. Professor Smith was an external advisory board member of NIHR North-West London’s Collaborative Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), a Healthcare Prioritisation panel member for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK and the non-medical chair of the NSW Ministry of Health’s Agency for Clinical Innovation Respiratory Network (ACI).

 Sheree in 2024 was appointed as the inaugural Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) Professor of Nursing. Her current research interests are patient reported outcome measurement, green prescription, long covid and non-ventilated hospital acquired pneumonia.