Professor Bruce Thompson is an active clinical scientist, with over 30 years of experience working in hospitals, universities, the community sector and business. He is a key opinion leader in respiratory medicine nationally and internationally and sits on numerous national and international scientific and clinical committees, and boards for the profession, non-government and not for profit organisations, and industry.

He is a past president of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand. Prof Thompson developed an international reputation in pulmonary gas exchange physiology early in his career whilst doing his PhD in conjunction with the NASA physiology laboratory at the University of California San Diego. For the first 27 years of is career, he worked in clinical respiratory and sleep laboratories in major teaching hospitals. Throughout this time, he has developed and focused his research on the physiology of small airway function. The work is being approached on a number of fronts including physiology measurement, imaging, and mathematical modelling. Since that time Prof Thompson is now regarded as an international expert on clinical respiratory measurement. His published works include a book on lung function, as well as numerous book chapters and 165 peer-reviewed journal articles and official documents. As an established clinical researcher in lung function, asthma, allergies and respiratory health, Bruce has been awarded competitive grants of over $35.9M including NHMRC and ARC schemes. He is a past President of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and was the first non-medical president in the history of the society, and is a Fellow of Australian and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and finally Asia Pacific Society of Respirology. He has extensive international reputation across medicine (respiratory and cardiovascular) and biomedical engineering. His international reputation has led to him being invited to participate on five American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society task forces and is currently a co-chair of the ATS/ERS task force writing the Lung Function interpretation document which is to be used across all lung function laboratories globally. Prof Thompson's strengths is bringing non-traditional expertise to clinical healthcare and biomedicine, using his varied contacts and expertise to build truly cross-disciplinary projects.