Thoracic and sleep medicine, a subspecialty of internal medicine, provides diagnostic and therapeutic services for respiratory and sleep disorders, and non-respiratory sleep disorders.
Thoracic physicians often focus on a specific area of this field such as asthma & allergy; sleep disorders, occupational & environmental lung disease; paediatric thoracic medicine; interventional pulmonology, respiratory infectious diseases and pulmonary malignancy.
Specialists are Fellows of the Royal Australian College of Physicians following postgraduate training in thoracic medicine. They use the post-nominals FRACP.
The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand represents health professionals in thoracic medicine.
In 2007 there were 352 medical specialists with thoracic medicine, and respiratory & sleep medicine as their main specialty of practice. (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2009. Medical labour force 2007. National health labour force series no. 44. Cat. no. HWL 45. Canberra: AIHW)
This category lists thoracic physicians, and respiratory and sleep physician in Australia.
Dr Chit Shu Chan, Sleep & Chest Disorders Centre
Sydney, NSW 2000
The Sleep & Chest Disorders Centre provides medical consultations, sleep studies, equipment sales and resources for consumers and professionals.
Dr Amanda (Mandie) Griffiths
Paediatric Respiratory & Sleep Physician
Melbourne Children's Clinic
Camberwell, VIC 3124
CRS Western Australia
Cardio Respiratory Sleep
Nedlands, WA 6009
Dr Philip CurrieDr Jack Philpott
Dr Scott Phung
Cardio Respiratory Sleep (CRS) offers cardiology, respiratory and sleep diagnostic and consulting specialist services at 5 convenient locations in Perth.