Dr Dilip Jayasimhan is an intensive care specialist and respiratory physician based in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is currently undertaking a PhD with the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand and Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington. His research programme centres on understanding the effect of spontaneous breathing in acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure requiring invasive mechanical ventilation. He is the chief investigator of SABRE-NZ (Spontaneous Breathing in Respiratory Failure Evaluation in New Zealand), a prospective multicentre inception cohort study.