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Discipline:
Domiciliary Oxygen
SWEP Position:
Clinical Advisor
Domiciliary Oxygen
Qualifications:
MBBS, PhD, FRACP |
Professor Christine McDonald is Director of the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Health. She is a practising respiratory physician with longstanding clinical and research interests in oxygen therapy. She is lead author of the current Thoracic Society Guidelines on Domiciliary Oxygen and has published widely in this field, including two seminal articles on ambulatory and palliative oxygen, current recipient of NHMRC funding to assess the use of ambulatory oxygen in interstitial lung disease (a multicentre international randomised controlled trial). She is Chair, COPD National Program for the Lung Foundation Australia, and, in that role and as a current member of the COPD Executive of the Lung Foundation, involved in consumer education in the area of oxygen therapy and its use.
