Professor Brian Smith

WE WISH TO ADVISE THAT PROFESSOR SMITH IS NO LONGER CONSULTING AT QE SPECIALIST CENTRE, DUE TO AN INTERSTATE TRANSFER IN AUGUST 2019.  THANK YOU.

Professor Brian Smith has interests in evidence based best practice management of sleep related breathing disorders including sleep apnoea, acute and chronic respiratory failure,  COPD, asthma, and pleural disease.

He has authored over 100  Cochrane systematic literature reviews  and other peer reviewed publications in a range of clinical respiratory topics reviews.  As part of a multi-disciplinary national team, he is a co-author of the Australian Lung Foundation’s COPD-X guidelines, including the step wise and concise guidelines, and has been an author of the British Thoracic Society Asthma Management Guidelines.   The Australian COPD –X guidelines are updated by the author team four times per year, and the on-line version receives approximately 10,000 hits per month.

Professor Smith has 20 years of experience as a director of a TSANZ/Australian Sleep Association accredited sleep and ventilatory failure laboratory, and pulmonary function laboratory, and has been a laboratory accreditor for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand in SA and interstate.

He has supervised many postgraduates (Honours, Masters and PhD students) in a range of clinical respiratory problems including best practice management of obstructive sleep apnoea, asthma and COPD.