About
Dan is a thoracic and transplant physician with special interests in immunology and interstitial lung disease.
He is Director of the World Lung and Heart-lung Transplant Registry – the first Australian to hold that position. He is co-chair of the Scientific and Education Committee of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand and sits on the Pulmonary and Programming Committees of the International Society for Cellular Therapy. Dan’s research focuses on the pathogenesis of lung fibrosis, new diagnostic methods and biomarkers, and therapeutic discovery.
He is Executive Director of Research, Metro North Health and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland.
His research has been supported by > $25 million in competitive grant funding and he has authored more than 160 research papers. He has been a Principal Investigator for numerous clinical trials of all phases in interstitial and other lung diseases including IPF.
Dan is Immediate Past Chair of the Pulmonary Fibrosis Australasian Clinical Trials Network (PACT) and is on the Steering Committee of the National Lung Biobank.