Jo Douglass is a specialist physician in Respiratory Medicine and Allergic Disease.

Since January 2020 she has held the James Stewart Chair of Medicine at the University of Melbourne at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where she is also appointed Executive Director of Research.

Jo graduated in Medicine from Monash University, Melbourne Australia, undertaking specialist physician training in Australia and the UK. She has led clinical services in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where she has also been a Divisional Director.

She has an MD by research and over 150 publications with publications in asthma, therapeutics, allergic disease and immune disorders. Her most recent research focus has been allergic and Thunderstorm Asthma funded by the MRFF. She is a former President of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA), co-chair of the Australian Immunodeficiency Strategy (2021 - present) and serves on numerous government, industry and consumer-lead advisory boards.