David Fielding MBBS, MD, FRACP

Dr. Fielding graduated in medicine from the University of Queensland, then trained at Royal Brisbane and Prince Charles Hospitals. After completing Thoracic Medicine Training he studied and worked at Middlesex Hospital with Stephen Spiro and received an MD under the supervision of Prof Steve Bown and Martin Hetzel regarding interstitial lung treatments. He returned to Australia and worked at Princess Alexandra and then Royal Brisbane Hospitals as a Consultant Physician. He was Director of Bronchology there since 2003 and pursued interests in EBUS, Narrow Band and autofluorescence bronchoscopy, pleuroscopy, pleural ultrasound, and more recently Robotic bronchoscopy. He is now the Director of Thoracic Medicine at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. In the TSANZ Dr. Fielding has served as a Board Member, on the Education and Training Subcommittee, was an inaugural co-chair of the Interventional Pulmonology Special Interest Group, and contributed to the revision of Procedural Guidelines for Training. Dr. Fielding is Treasurer of the World Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology and a board member of the Asia Pacific Society of Bronchology. Presently he is undertaking Ph.D. studies via the University of Queensland on the topic of specimens for the molecular biology of lung cancer.