james_gClinical Professor Alan James – Chairman

BPMRI Chair – Executive Board Member

Research Interests: Epidemiology, Airway structure and function in respiratory conditions.

Professor Alan James is a respiratory scientist/physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and at the University of Western Australia. He has been an executive Board member for over 30 years. His epidemiological research involves the investigation of genetic and environmental risk factors for respiratory disease and multi-morbidity in the Busselton Health Studies. His structure / function work includes measurement of hyperplasia and hypertrophy of airway smooth muscle in asthma and COPD and the development of polarisation sensitive optical coherence tomography as a clinical tool to measure airway smooth muscle in people with asthma and/or COPD, with colleagues from the University of Western Australia. C/Prof James trained in respiratory medicine in Western Australia and as a Canadian Research Fellow in Vancouver, studying airway mechanics in asthma, the subject of his PhD. He has published over 300 journal articles, book chapters and editorials and has been awarded Research Medals from the Asia Pacific Society of Respirology (2017) and the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (2020).