Rate My Professor Rochelle Palmay

Rochelle Palmay, holding a BSc from the University of Otago, serves as the Senior Laboratory Technician and Department Health and Safety Officer at the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences (SPESES), University of Otago. In this role, she manages laboratory facilities, supports teaching and research operations, maintains equipment, and enforces health and safety protocols across the department and the Sciences Division. Her responsibilities include preparing labs and environmental chambers for experiments in exercise physiology, sport science, and related disciplines, contributing to the school's status as a global leader in sport-related subjects, ranked 22nd worldwide by QS World University Rankings.

Palmay has substantially supported respiratory medicine research at the Dunedin School of Medicine through technical expertise and co-authorship on peer-reviewed papers. Key publications include "Biomarker-based asthma phenotypes of corticosteroid response" (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2015, cited 166 times), delineating asthma subtypes via biomarkers and corticosteroid response; "Simvastatin in the treatment of asthma: lack of steroid sparing effect" (Thorax, 2010); "Asthma phenotypes: consistency of classification using induced sputum" (Respirology, 2012, cited 70 times); "Exercise-induced wheeze: fraction of exhaled nitric oxide-directed management" (Respirology, 2010); and "Long term performance characteristics of an electrochemical nitric oxide analyser" (Respiratory Medicine, 2011). She is also acknowledged for technical assistance in studies on ultrasound measurements of subcutaneous fat thickness, bioelectrical impedance changes during exercise, and beverage effects on plasma volume in heat. ResearchGate attributes 11 publications to her with 765 citations, highlighting her impact on asthma heterogeneity, exhaled nitric oxide analysis, sputum processing, and treatment efficacy research at the University of Otago.