BPMRI Board
The BPMRI Board is currently made up of the following elected and co-opted advisory Board members:
Clinical Professor Alan James
Research Interests:
Epidemiology of respiratory disease, Pulmonary physiology, Airway remodelling, Sleep disorders
Professor Alan James is a consultant respiratory physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and at Hollywood Private Hospital. His research involves the investigation of genetic and environmental risk factors for respiratory disease in populations including the Busselton Health Studies and the characterisation of respiratory disease in remote indigenous communities. Read More
Mr Richard Marsh
Richard Marsh joined the BPMRI Board in 2015 as an advisory member. Richard holds a BSc and has extensive experience in corporate planning and strategic business development. In 2018 Richard was elected Vice Chair of the BPMRI and is also involved with the Institute’s Revenue and Governance Committee. Read More
Associate Professor Kevin Murray
Research Interests:
Epidemiology, Biostatistics
Kevin Murray is an experienced applied biostatistician working in the fields of population health, medicine and health sciences. With 20 years of statistical experience, He has acquired extensive knowledge and expertise in clinical trials and epidemiological studies. Read More
Emeritus Professor Matthew Knuiman
Research Interests:
Biostatistics, Epidemiology and control of diabetes, Vascular disease, Respiratory diseases
Professor Knuiman is a biostatistician/epidemiologist whose primary training was in the field of statistics. After three years in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University he returned to The University of Western Australia in 1988 to help establish the postgraduate program in public health. Read More
Emeritus Professor John Beilby
Research Interests:
Cardiovascular genetics, Biochemistry
John Beilby is former Principal Scientist in Clinical Biochemistry at PathWest and Emeritus Professor with the University of Western Australia School of Surgery and Pathology. Professor Beilby established the routine molecular biology diagnostic testing laboratory at PathWest. Read More
Emeritus Clinical Professor Bill Musk (Dec)
Research Interests:
Epidemiology of Respiratory disease, Pulmonary physiology, Occupational lung disease
Professor Bill Musk is former Chairperson of the Busselton Population Medical Research Institute, Chairperson of WA Mesothelioma Registry, Past President of the Australian Council Smoking and Health and a Member of the Pneumoconiosis Medical Panel in WA. Read More
Clinical Professor John Walsh
Research Interests:
Thyroid disease, Paget’s disease
John Walsh is a Clinical Professor at the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia and consultant endocrinologist at the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA. Read More
Professor Bu Yeap
Research Interests:
Endocrinology, Sex hormones and Ageing
Bu Yeap is a Professor in the Medical School, University of Western Australia, and a consultant endocrinologist in the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. His research focusses on epidemiological and clinical studies of hormones and health outcomes in men and the interaction between hormones, diabetes and cardiovascular risk. Read More
Emeritus Professor Joseph Hung
Research Interests:
Cardiovascular disease
Professor Joseph Hung is Emeritus Professor of Cardiology at the University of Western Australia, and former Head of Department, Cardiovascular Medicine at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and Deputy Head of Unit, School of Medicine & Pharmacology at SCGH. Read More
Professor Timothy Davis
Research Interests:
Diabetes and General medicine
Professor Timothy Davis is a general physician, tropical medicine specialist and diabetologist at Fremantle Hospital, and Professor of Medicine, University of Western Australia. He has had research interests in diabetes since 1978 and in tropical medicine since 1987, and is still active in both areas. Read More
Dr Debra Turner
Research Interests:
Paediatric asthma, atopy and lung disease
Dr Turner studied at UWA and undertook postdoctoral studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She spent 20 years as a medical researcher based at Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Physiology Department at UWA and the Respiratory Department at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. Read More
Professor Dominic Mallon
Research Interests:
Clinical immunology, allergy and immunopathologys
Dr Dominic Mallon graduated from UWA in 1987 and completed his internship at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He commenced his specialist training at Royal Perth Hospital and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital before completing the specialist training in Immunology and Allergy at Westmead Hospital in 1995. Read More
Clinical Professor Siobhain Mulrennan
Research Interests:
Respiratory Diseases
Siobhain Mulrennan is Head of The Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and Bronchiectasis Unit at the Lung Institue of Western Australia and Respiratory Specialist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Professor Mulrennan obtained her Medical degree from Glasgow University in 1996 and has worked in hospitals in Glasgow and Newcastle and completed Respiratory Medicine Specialisation training in Yorkshire, UK. Read More
Dr Digby Cullen
Research Interests:
Gastrointestinal disease, Haematochromatosis
Dr Digby Cullen graduated from the University of Western Australia before undertaking Physician and Gastroenterology training at Royal Perth Hospital. He was previously a visiting gastroenterologist at Royal Perth Hospital and Fremantle Hospital (1995-2005). Read More
Dr Michael Hunter
Research Interests:
Respiratory disease, Cardiovascular disease, Epidemiology, Sleep Apnoea
Dr Michael Hunter was awarded a PhD with Distinction by the University of Western Australia for his studies in molecular biology and genetics conducted at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Free Hospital, London. Read More
Dr Jennie Hui
Research Interests:
Immunology, Molecular genetics
Jennie is a molecular geneticist whose primary training was in the field of Immunogenetics. Since 2002, her main research focus involved the study of genetics and epidemiology of common human diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases and diabetes. Read More
Dr Gemma Cadby
Research Interests:
Genetic aetiology of complex traits, mesothelioma and cardiovascular disease
Gemma is a genetic epidemiologist at the Centre for GOHaD. She completed her PhD investigating genetic variants associated with melanoma severity in 2010 from the University of Western Australia. She then spent 2 years at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Read More
Mrs Denise Young
Mr Alan Eggleston
Mr Barry Rubie
Mr Jeremy Wade
Mr Mark Caddy
Professor Bill Cookson
Research Interests:
Genetic aetiology of asthma and airway disease
