About
John Mackintosh (BSc, MBBS(Hons), FRACP) is a Respiratory and Lung Transplant Physician at The Prince Charles Hospital and early career researcher.
John completed a clinical fellowship in interstitial lung disease at the prestigious Royal Brompton Hospital, London, under the supervision of Professors Athol Wells and Toby Maher. John has experience in a broad range of interstitial lung diseases and has collaborative links to the Royal Brompton Hospital in the form of ongoing research.
In John’s short career, he has been first author of eleven publications. He has numerous publications in high impact journals including the Lancet, Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, European Respiratory Journal and Journal of Thoracic Oncology, all of which were completed whilst training/working full-time in clinical respiratory medicine.
John has been invited to write review articles and book chapters in the area of interstitial lung disease. He has been involved in scoring abstracts and chairing scientific sessions at international meetings. John has been invited to present at the annual Australian Rare Lung Disease Short Course.
He is involved in clinical training and has supervised a number of junior doctors pursuing early career research. John was a CI on a successful MRFF grant for an investigator led study of a novel treatment for genetic form of lung fibrosis. John was pivotal in the design of this study and is in charge of the lead site.
He is currently investigating a novel approach to the diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases with the support of the CRE-PF. This study has the potential to radically change the conventional approach to these patients.