(Brisbane and Hervey Bay)

Dr Zappala is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician. He achieved his MBBS(Hons) at the University of Queensland and underwent his advanced training at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital. Dr Zappala worked for two years in London at the Royal Brompton Hospital where he began his interest and research in interstitial lung disease and pulmonary hypertension.  He has an active interest in airways disease and sleep apnoea also.

His research interests include examining how change in serial pulmonary function and chest imaging describe disease behaviour and predict survival in interstitial lung disease, epidemiology of pulmonary hypertension, assessing diffuse lung diseases at baseline

Dr Zappala is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Australian Medical Association.

Dr Zappala consults at Wesley Medical Centre and St Stephen’s Hospital Hervey Bay. (From QRSS website)

(Brisbane and Hervey Bay)

Dr Bashirzadeh is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician. He obtained his medical degree in Iran and completed his FRACP training at The Canberra Hospital and Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital in Brisbane. Farzad has completed further training in interventional bronchoscopy including Thoraxklinik Heidelberg and robotic bronchoscopy at Intuitive Surgical in US.

Farzad’s main interest area is interventional pulmonology, including diagnostic and management of lung cancer using endobronchial ultrasound, narrow band image (NBI) bronchoscopy, bronchial stenting and medical thoracoscopy. He performs Endobronchial lung volume reduction for management of severe COPD in both public and private.

Farzad consults for diagnosis and management of lung cancer, asthma, emphysema, sleep disordered breathing, chronic cough, sarcoidosis, pleural disease and other respiratory conditions.

Dr Bashirzadeh is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a member of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society.

Farzad consults at Wesley Medical Centre, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital Hervey Bay and Mater Misericordiae Hospital Rockhampton. (from QRSS website)

(Brisbane)

Queensland trained Respiratory and Sleep Physician. He completed his medical degree from the University of Queensland in 2009. Dr Fanning undertook his respiratory training at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and Logan Hospital and completed his Sleep Fellowship at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Dr Fanning currently holds Staff Specialist Respiratory and Sleep Physician positions at the Mater Public Hospital and Logan Hospital.

Dr Fanning’s interests include emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma, bronchiectasis, pleural disease and lung cancer. In addition, he is interested in both respiratory and non-respiratory sleep disorders.
Dr Fanning is trained in bronchoscopy, including endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), and pleural disease management. He is committed to providing a high standard of care to his patients, with consideration of their individual circumstances and practical needs. Dr Fanning has a strong focus on communication with patients, family, and the wider care team

Dr Fanning consults at the Wesley Medical Centre, Greater Springfield Specialist Suites and Mater Misericordiae Hospital Rockhampton. (from QRSS website)

(Brisbane and Hervey Bay)

Dr Hervey Lau is a Queensland-trained Respiratory, Sleep, and General Physician who speaks fluent English and Cantonese. Dr Lau initially undertook specialist internal medicine training at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital before embarking on advanced respiratory training at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Mater Hospital. Dr Hervey Lau then returned to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital to complete his fellowship in sleep medicine.

Whilst general respiratory and sleep practice is broad, Dr Hervey Lau’s keen interest is to offer assistance in the work-up and management of patients with airway diseases (such as asthma and COPD), lung cancer, and sleep disorders (such as obstructive sleep apnoea and insomnia). (from QRSS website)

(Brisbane and Hervey Bay)

Dr Alistair Cook is a Respiratory Physician who graduated from the University of Queensland and completed his training at Logan and Gold Coast University Hospitals. He has since completed fellowships in Severe Asthma at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, and Interventional

Bronchoscopy at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Dr Cook is currently completing his PhD investigating asthma attacks in patients receiving advanced asthma treatments.

Dr Cook has a public position at RBWH, and he has recently commenced seeing patients in private practice and has appointments available for immediate consultation. Dr Cook has broad expertise and is happy to be involved in the care of all general respiratory conditions. His subspecialty interests are difficult asthma, COPD, lung cancer and bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound.

Dr Cook is available for consultation at the Wesley Medical Centre and St Stephen’s Hospital Hervey Bay.

(Brisbane)

Dr Williams completed her medical degree at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom in 2002. After working for the NHS in hospitals in the East Midlands, she moved to Queensland, Australia. She completed her physician and specialty training in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine in 2011, including working at The Prince Charles Hospital and the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Dr Williams has been working as a Respiratory and Sleep Physician in private practice since 2012 in Brisbane. She also provided a regional service based in Gladstone for 10 years.

Dr Williams is passionate about treating sleep disorders, both respiratory and non-respiratory conditions. These include snoring, obstructive sleep apnoea, insomnia, restless leg syndrome, parasomnias and hypersomnolence. She believes in a very individualized and tailored treatment approach. Dr Williams was one of the founders of the complex sleep case study meetings that started in Brisbane in 2015, and now are held across Australia, which brings together specialists and other health professionals from different disciplines.

Dr Williams is available to see patients at the Wesley Medical Centre

(Hervey Bay)

Dr Goudge is a consultant Respiratory and Sleep Physician with over 20 years experience in the management of a wide variety of respiratory and sleep disorders. After graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1992, Dr Goudge began his medical career at the Austin hospital and he continued this tertiary hospital association throughout his working life. Dr Goudge has been in private practice in Bundoora for 18 years and has a particular interest in asthma, COPD, interstitial lung diseases, chronic cough, obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and narcolepsy.

Dr Goudge is available for consultation in Hervey Bay.

(Brisbane)

Dr Heiner is a Sleep Physician Partner at GenesisCare. Maurice graduated from the University of Queensland in 1972 with a MBBS and was admitted to the Fellow College of Chest Physicians in 1982 and as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1996. He has a special interest and extensive experience in Intensive Care Units (ICU) having formed the ICU Committees and founded “Modern” ICUs in Brisbane. Dr Heiner underwent extensive Respiratory and Sleep training in Australia, Canada and the US and holds licences to work in all three countries. He is a founding member of the Asbestosis Research Group (Wesley Research Institute), Advocated Advisor to the Department of Veteran Affairs and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Bond University.

Dr Heiner is consulting out of the Wesley Medical Centre.

(Brisbane)

Dr Hundloe graduated from the University of Queensland in 1994. He completed specialist training in Thoracic Sleep Medicine at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and The Prince Charles Hospital. In 2004 he was appointed as a Consultant Thoracic and Sleep Physician at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and commenced private practice at The Wesley Hospital.

Dr Hundloe is currently consulting out of the Wesley Medical Centre.

(Brisbane & Hervey Bay)

Alex graduated from the University of Queensland in 2004, receiving first class honours and the University Medal for Medicine. He completed Thoracic Medicine training at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and then a Sleep Fellowship at The Prince Charles Hospital in 2013. After obtaining his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians he completed a year-long Clinical Research Fellowship at the British Columbia Cancer Agency, based in Vancouver.

Alex is available for consultation in general thoracic medicine including asthma, COPD and chronic cough. He has a special interest in the early diagnosis of lung cancer, lung cancer screening and lung nodule evaluation. Alex is a skilled bronchoscopist, with extensive training in endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS).

In addition to his interest in thoracic oncology, Alex provides consultation to provide patients and clinicians with comprehensive evaluation and management of the broad range of respiratory and non-respiratory sleep disorders. In particular, he is experienced in the management of sleep disorders that complicate cardiac disorders, neuromuscular weakness and chronic respiratory disease.

Dr Ritchie is currently consulting out of St Andrews Place in Spring Hill and Hervey Bay.

(Brisbane)

Lauren studied undergraduate Biomedical Science at the University of Melbourne, her hometown, before moving to Brisbane to study Medicine. She graduated from the University of Queensland in 2010. Her training in Thoracic Medicine was undertaken at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and the Princess Alexandra (PA) Hospitals.

In 2017, Lauren worked at the RBWH, with a focus on Interventional Bronchoscopy, encompassing extensive training in radial and convex EBUS and cryobiopsy. Lauren is expert in the assessment and management of pleural disease. In 2018 Lauren completed her Sleep fellowship at the RBWH, and is adept at managing patients with complex sleep disorders, neuromuscular disease, and respiratory failure.

Lauren is passionate about personalised Thoracic and Sleep Medicine. She is particularly interested in difficult asthma, bronchiectasis, COPD, unexplained breathlessness, lung cancer and sleep disorders, including insomnia, sleep apnoea and narcolepsy.

Dr Galt is currently consulting out of St Andrews Place in Spring Hill.

(Brisbane)

Tom was awarded his undergraduate degree in physiotherapy in 2005, before working as a respiratory physiotherapist in Brisbane and London. He went on to study Medicine, and graduated from the University of Queensland in 2012 with honours. Tom trained in Thoracic Medicine at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH), Greenslopes Private Hospital (GPH) and The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH).

Tom is a well-rounded practitioner with a broad range of skills across all aspects of respiratory and sleep medicine. His particular respiratory interests include: COPD, asthma, lung cancer, unexplained breathlessness and cough, and pleural disease. He has trained in interventional bronchoscopy and performs both radial and convex endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) procedures.

In 2020, Tom completed a sleep medicine fellowship at TPCH. Tom’s sleep medicine interests include: obstructive sleep apnoea and complex sleep disordered breathing. Through his time at TPCH he has been trained in the management of patients with neuromuscular disorders and respiratory failure, including Motor Neuron disease.

Dr Skinner is currently consulting out of St Andrews Place in Spring Hill.

(Toowoomba)

After graduating from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Lee undertook his advanced training in thoracic medicine at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Prince Charles Hospital.

He was subsequently made a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and established his respiratory and sleep medicine private practice in Toowoomba.
Dr Lee Rafter is a respiratory physician and sleep specialist consulting at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba. He has a particular interest in asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung function and sleep disorders.