Rate My Professor Stuart Mazzone

With a background commencing in sport science and chemistry, advancing through pharmacology—where he obtained his research higher degree—and respiratory physiology in clinical immunology, Mazzone is internationally recognised for leading descriptions of neural processes regulating sensory-evoked airway reflexes and behaviours. Key discoveries include distinct central nervous system connections of respiratory sensory neurons from jugular and nodose vagal ganglia. His highly cited review, 'Vagal afferent innervation of the airways in health and disease' (Physiological Reviews, 2016, with B.J. Undem), summarises this work. He has co-authored influential guidelines such as CHEST reports on cough classification and management (2018, 2016), cough anatomy and neurophysiology (2014), and 'Cough hypersensitivity and chronic cough' (Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2022). In 2024, he received the Kaplan AAAAI Foundation Lectureship, delivering the Presidential Plenary on neuroimmunology. Mazzone directs an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence targeting chronic cough and co-leads the MDHS Curing Chronic Disease Impact Mission.