This category lists thoracic physicians, and respiratory and sleep physician in Australia.
Thoracic and sleep medicine, a subspecialty of internal medicine, provides diagnostic and therapeutic services for respiratory and sleep disorders, and non-respiratory sleep disorders.
Thoracic physicians often focus on a specific area of this field such as asthma & allergy; sleep disorders, occupational & environmental lung disease; paediatric thoracic medicine; interventional pulmonology, respiratory infectious diseases and pulmonary malignancy.
Specialists are Fellows of the Royal Australian College of Physicians following postgraduate training in thoracic medicine. They use the post-nominals FRACP.
The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand represents health professionals in thoracic medicine.
In March 2022 there were 882 registered specialists in the field of respiratory and sleep medicine in Australia (Medical Board of Australia, Registrant data, www.ahpra.gov.au/).
Somahealth Sleep & Respiratory
A/Prof Byrne / Dr Di Michiel / Dr Pan / Dr Hu
Lung function, Allergy test, Sleep study, Rhino, Naso, FeNO
Leichhardt, NSW 2040
Management of common respiratory & Sleep disordersSleep and Breathing assessments
Experience in treating patients with:
Sleep apnoea COPD Narcolepsy Bronchiectasis Lung lesion
Sleep-related respiratory disorders Asthma OHS Pulmonary fibrosis Chronic cough * insomnia * Circadian rhythms disorders
Dr Peter Solin
Respiratory & Sleep Medicine
National Sleep Diagnostics and Sleep & Respiratory Group
Brighton, VIC 3186
Dr Farzad Bashirzadeh
Respiratory and Sleep Physician
Queensland Respiratory Services
Auchenflower, QLD 4066