Professor Ronel Roos is a Physiotherapist and Associate Professor in the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She teaches and serves as the undergraduate programme co-ordinator and works and researches cardiopulmonary and intensive care physiotherapy. Her research interest are health promotion and rehabilitation of individuals with cardiopulmonary dysfunction to highlight quality of life and disability. The National Research Foundation of South Africa recognised her research contributions as an established researcher, and she received a C2 rating in 2023. She is dedicated to advancing the community of practice related to cardiopulmonary and intensive care physiotherapy in South Africa. She was awarded the Faculty of Health Sciences Phillip V Tobias Distinguished Teacher’s Award for Clinical Sciences in 2018 and an Honorary Life Membership of the Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Group of the South African Society of Physiotherapy in 2023 for her contributions to advancing evidence-based clinical practice.