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Contact Details

Phone
64 3 474 0999 extn 58784
Email
ben.brockway@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Medicine (Dunedin)
Qualifications
MB BS BSc(Hons) MRCP(Lond) FRACP
Research summary
Biomarkers and airway diseases; Cystic Fibrosis
Teaching
Year 3 ELM, Year 4 Ambulatory, Year 5 Clinical / ward, Year 6 Supervisor (Tis); Dean's Commendations for Teaching 2009, 2012, 2015; Winner Dean's Senior Staff Award for Quality in Teaching 2011.
Memberships
Prior TSANZ (NZ) Treasurer & Executive member, National Lung Cancer Working Group, SI Lung Cancer Working Group. HRC Clinical Trials Panel Reviewer 2014. Member HRS Executive Board, DSM Executive Board. Member of PHSANZ, TSANZ, ATS, ERS, ECFS.
Clinical

Lead for Cystic Fibrosis care, Pulmonary Hypertension, Interstitial Lung Disease. Also parasomnias and non-respiratory sleep disorders as well as sleep disordered breathing, asthma, COPD, and lung cancer services.

Research

Dr Ben Brockway studied in the UK and was appointed Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at Dunedin Public Hospital and School of Medicine in 2008. His interests include exhaled breath analysis in disease and health, particularly in the fields of cystic fibrosis, asthma, and COPD. He is PI for numerous studies and his clinical interests include cystic fibrosis (CF), Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), and sleep disordered breathing. Clinical trials (commercial or academic) also include bronchiectasis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, insomnia, sleep disordered breathing, pleural disease, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and COPD.

Publications

Martin, L. W., Gray, A. R., Brockway, B., & Lamont, I. L. (2023). Pseudomonas aeruginosa is oxygen-deprived during infection in cystic fibrosis lungs, reducing the effectiveness of antibiotics. FEMS Microbiology Letters, fnad076. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnad076 Journal - Research Article

Brockway, B., Skinner, M., Waters, D., & Rhodes, S. (2022). Perceptions of a physical activity and text messaging programme for adults with obstructive sleep apnoea. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 50(3, Suppl.), (pp. S3). doi: 10.15619/NZJP/50.3.07 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Taylor, S. J. W., Gauthier, J., Martin, L. W., Potvin, M., Brockway, B., Levesque, R. C., & Lamont, I. L. (2022, August). Genome evolution drives transcriptomic and phenotypic adaptation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa during 20 years of infection. Verbal presentation at the Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases Satellite Meeting: Queenstown Research Week, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Rhodes, S., Waters, D., Brockway, B., & Skinner, M. (2022). Exercise and motivational text messaging to support physical activity behaviour change in a population with obstructive sleep apnoea: A feasibility study. Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(4), 318-325. doi: 10.1071/HC22033 Journal - Research Article

Wardell, S. J. T., Gauthier, J., Martin, L. W., Potvin, M., Brockway, B., Levesque, R. C., & Lamont, I. L. (2021). Genome evolution drives transcriptomic and phenotypic adaptation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa during 20 years of infection. Microbial Genomics, 7(11), 681. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000681 Journal - Research Article

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