- 08 8232 4200
- 08 8232 4210
- admin@adelaiderespiratory.com.au
- 26 Surrey Rd, Keswick SA 5035
OUR SPECIALISTS
Dr. Anuk Kruavit
BMedSci, MBBS, FRACP
Dr. Kruavit is a Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine Physician. Having completed his medical training at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he went on to obtain dual Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in both General Medicine and Respiratory Medicine in 2017, and later completed his Sleep Medicine fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, in 2018. He also spent 2 years during his physician training in the Northern Territory, and has extensive experience in Indigenous Health.
Dr. Kruavit has combined his training and is currently practicing as a Consultant Physician in both fields of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine. He is an active member of several national and international respiratory/sleep and internal medicine societies. He has several scientific publications and continues to be actively involved in research activity. His many interests include chronic cough, airways disease, pleural disease, lung nodule/cancer, interventional pulmonology, obstructive sleep apnoea and complex respiratory sleep disorders, obesity and Indigenous health.
Apart from working at Adelaide Respiratory, Dr. Kruavit also works as a bariatric physician at the Bariatric Management and Intervention Clinic program within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. This is a pre-surgery weight loss program, in conjunction with the bariatric surgery service at Flinders Medical Centre.
His other recent experience includes previously running Respiratory/Sleep service for Indigenous patients at Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Health Care Service (Hillcrest). He would also welcome Indigenous patients at Adelaide Respiratory.
Dr. Kruavit has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital, St Andrew’s Medical Centre, Ashford Hospital, North Eastern Community Hospital and Flinders Private Hospital.
Interests:
Dr. Kruavit is a Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine Physician. Having completed his medical training at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he went on to obtain dual Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in both General Medicine and Respiratory Medicine in 2017, and later completed his Sleep Medicine fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, in 2018. He also spent 2 years during his physician training in the Northern Territory, and has extensive experience in Indigenous Health.
Dr. Kruavit has combined his training and is currently practicing as a Consultant Physician in both fields of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine. He is an active member of several national and international respiratory/sleep and internal medicine societies. He has several scientific publications and continues to be actively involved in research activity. His many interests include chronic cough, airways disease, pleural disease, lung nodule/cancer, interventional pulmonology, obstructive sleep apnoea and complex respiratory sleep disorders, obesity and Indigenous health.
Apart from working at Adelaide Respiratory, Dr. Kruavit also works as a bariatric physician at the Bariatric Management and Intervention Clinic program within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. This is a pre-surgery weight loss program, in conjunction with the bariatric surgery service at Flinders Medical Centre.
His other recent experience includes previously running Respiratory/Sleep service for Indigenous patients at Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Health Care Service (Hillcrest). He would also welcome Indigenous patients at Adelaide Respiratory.
Dr. Kruavit has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital, St Andrew’s Medical Centre, Ashford Hospital, North Eastern Community Hospital and Flinders Private Hospital.
Interests:
- Thoracic malignancies/Lung nodule surveillance:
– Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) bronchoscopy and biopsy
- Airways disease:
– Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
– Poorly controlled asthma – biologic therapy
– Bronchitis/Bronchiectasis
- Chronic cough
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – novel anti-fibrotic therapies
- Obstructive/Complex Sleep Apnoea
- Central disorders of hypersomnolence – wakefulness stimulants
- Restless leg syndrome/Periodic limb movement disorder
- Indigenous Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
- Obesity:
– Novel weight loss medications
Dr. Anuk Kruavit
BMedSci, MBBS, FRACP
Dr. Kruavit is a Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine Physician. Having completed his medical training at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he went on to obtain dual Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in both General Medicine and Respiratory Medicine in 2017, and later completed his Sleep Medicine fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, in 2018. He also spent 2 years during his physician training in the Northern Territory, and has extensive experience in Indigenous Health.
Dr. Kruavit has combined his training and is currently practicing as a Consultant Physician in both fields of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine. He is an active member of several national and international respiratory/sleep and internal medicine societies. He has several scientific publications and continues to be actively involved in research activity. His many interests include chronic cough, airways disease, pleural disease, lung nodule/cancer, interventional pulmonology, obstructive sleep apnoea and complex respiratory sleep disorders, obesity and Indigenous health.
Apart from working at Adelaide Respiratory, Dr. Kruavit also works as a bariatric physician at the Bariatric Management and Intervention Clinic program within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. This is a pre-surgery weight loss program, in conjunction with the bariatric surgery service at Flinders Medical Centre.
His other recent experience includes previously running Respiratory/Sleep service for Indigenous patients at Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Health Care Service (Hillcrest). He would also welcome Indigenous patients at Adelaide Respiratory.
Dr. Kruavit has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital, St Andrew’s Medical Centre, Ashford Hospital, North Eastern Community Hospital and Flinders Private Hospital.
Interests:
Dr. Kruavit is a Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine Physician. Having completed his medical training at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he went on to obtain dual Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in both General Medicine and Respiratory Medicine in 2017, and later completed his Sleep Medicine fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, in 2018. He also spent 2 years during his physician training in the Northern Territory, and has extensive experience in Indigenous Health.
Dr. Kruavit has combined his training and is currently practicing as a Consultant Physician in both fields of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine. He is an active member of several national and international respiratory/sleep and internal medicine societies. He has several scientific publications and continues to be actively involved in research activity. His many interests include chronic cough, airways disease, pleural disease, lung nodule/cancer, interventional pulmonology, obstructive sleep apnoea and complex respiratory sleep disorders, obesity and Indigenous health.
Apart from working at Adelaide Respiratory, Dr. Kruavit also works as a bariatric physician at the Bariatric Management and Intervention Clinic program within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. This is a pre-surgery weight loss program, in conjunction with the bariatric surgery service at Flinders Medical Centre.
His other recent experience includes previously running Respiratory/Sleep service for Indigenous patients at Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Health Care Service (Hillcrest). He would also welcome Indigenous patients at Adelaide Respiratory.
Dr. Kruavit has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital, St Andrew’s Medical Centre, Ashford Hospital, North Eastern Community Hospital and Flinders Private Hospital.
Interests:
- Thoracic malignancies/Lung nodule surveillance:
– Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) bronchoscopy and biopsy - Airways disease:
– Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
– Poorly controlled asthma – biologic therapy
– Bronchitis/Bronchiectasis - Chronic cough
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – novel anti-fibrotic therapies
- Obstructive/Complex Sleep Apnoea
- Central disorders of hypersomnolence – wakefulness stimulants
- Restless leg syndrome/Periodic limb movement disorder
- Indigenous Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
- Obesity:
– Novel weight loss medications
Dr. Chris Langton
MBBS, FRACP
Dr Langton is a Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician. He was born in Canada and migrated to Australia in 2006 where he completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Flinders Medical School in 2009. He attained his FRACP in 2018 after finishing Advanced Training in respiratory medicine, including a year with special interests in lung cancer and pleural diseases, at Flinders Medical Centre. He subsequently completed an interventional pulmonology fellowship at the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) in Vancouver, Canada in 2019. Upon returning back to Adelaide, he completed a second fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2020.
Dr Langton is a member of several national and international respiratory and sleep medicine societies. He enjoys the opportunity to be involved in education, research and teaching in the fields of respiratory and sleep medicine. He has presented clinical research at national and international conferences.
Dr Langton has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital and St Andrews Hospital.
Interests:
Dr Langton is a Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician. He was born in Canada and migrated to Australia in 2006 where he completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Flinders Medical School in 2009. He attained his FRACP in 2018 after finishing Advanced Training in respiratory medicine, including a year with special interests in lung cancer and pleural diseases, at Flinders Medical Centre. He subsequently completed an interventional pulmonology fellowship at the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) in Vancouver, Canada in 2019. Upon returning back to Adelaide, he completed a second fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2020.
Dr Langton is a member of several national and international respiratory and sleep medicine societies. He enjoys the opportunity to be involved in education, research and teaching in the fields of respiratory and sleep medicine. He has presented clinical research at national and international conferences.
Dr Langton has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital and St Andrews Hospital.
Interests:
- Interventional Pulmonology
– Bronchoscopy and transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB)
– Linear endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
– Guided sheath (radial EBUS) biopsy
– Cryobiopsy
- Thoracic Malignancies/Lung Nodule Surveillance
– Thoracentesis/Indwelling Tunnelled Pleural Catheter
– Pleural disease
– Lung cancer screening
- Airways Disease
– Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)/Emphysema
– Asthma, including biologic therapy
-Bronchiectasis
- Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)
– Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and anti-fibrotic therapy
- Chronic Cough
- Sleep Medicine
– Obstructive Sleep Apnoea/Sleep Disordered Breathing
– Parasomnia
– Narcolepsy/Idiopathic Hypersomnolence
– Restless Leg Syndrome
Dr. Chris Langton
MBBS, FRACP
Dr Langton is a Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician. He was born in Canada and migrated to Australia in 2006 where he completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Flinders Medical School in 2009. He attained his FRACP in 2018 after finishing Advanced Training in respiratory medicine, including a year with special interests in lung cancer and pleural diseases, at Flinders Medical Centre. He subsequently completed an interventional pulmonology fellowship at the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) in Vancouver, Canada in 2019. Upon returning back to Adelaide, he completed a second fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2020.
Dr Langton is a member of several national and international respiratory and sleep medicine societies. He enjoys the opportunity to be involved in education, research and teaching in the fields of respiratory and sleep medicine. He has presented clinical research at national and international conferences.
Dr Langton has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital and St Andrews Hospital.
Interests:
Dr Langton is a Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician. He was born in Canada and migrated to Australia in 2006 where he completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Flinders Medical School in 2009. He attained his FRACP in 2018 after finishing Advanced Training in respiratory medicine, including a year with special interests in lung cancer and pleural diseases, at Flinders Medical Centre. He subsequently completed an interventional pulmonology fellowship at the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) in Vancouver, Canada in 2019. Upon returning back to Adelaide, he completed a second fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2020.
Dr Langton is a member of several national and international respiratory and sleep medicine societies. He enjoys the opportunity to be involved in education, research and teaching in the fields of respiratory and sleep medicine. He has presented clinical research at national and international conferences.
Dr Langton has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital and St Andrews Hospital.
Interests:
- Interventional Pulmonology
– Bronchoscopy and transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB)
– Linear endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
– Guided sheath (radial EBUS) biopsy
– Cryobiopsy - Thoracic Malignancies/Lung Nodule Surveillance
– Thoracentesis/Indwelling Tunnelled Pleural Catheter
– Pleural disease
– Lung cancer screening - Airways Disease
– Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)/Emphysema
– Asthma, including biologic therapy
-Bronchiectasis - Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)
– Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and anti-fibrotic therapy - Chronic Cough
- Sleep Medicine
– Obstructive Sleep Apnoea/Sleep Disordered Breathing
– Parasomnia
– Narcolepsy/Idiopathic Hypersomnolence
– Restless Leg Syndrome
Dr. Zoe D Scounos
BMedSci (Hons), MBBS, FRACP
Dr Zoe D Scounos is a Thoracic and Sleep Physician who underwent her undergraduate training at the University of Adelaide having completed the like in 1995, followed by her postgraduate training and basic physician training in a few of the major public teaching hospitals in Adelaide. At the level of a senior medical registrar in 2003, she underwent a sabbatical in far north Queensland, Townsville in order to manage an acute admissions department at the Mater Hospital, facilitating tertiary acute referrals from a large geographical area including the Pacific Islands. Here she was one of the first Clinical Lecturers for the first cohort of medical graduates of the James Cook University medical school. Furthermore, she provided clinical training and facilitation for overseas doctors in obtaining their Australian qualifications through the Australian Medical Council examinations who were in the field of Anaesthetics. After 3 years in rural Queensland, she relocated to Brisbane in order to pursue and complete her specialty training in Thoracic and Sleep medicine which was mainly had at the nationally and internationally acclaimed chest hospital, The Prince Charles Hospital. Experience in all sub-specialties in thoracic and sleep medicine was obtained, with the latter focussed on at the Greenslopes Private Hospital.
In 2008, she was awarded her fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. This was followed by locum work as a Thoracic and Sleep Consultant within the Thoracic Department of the Prince Charles Hospital combining private work at the Holy Spirit Northside Hospital on adjoining campuses. Combined public and private work were had for 6 years before focusing on sole private practice in the last 4 years. Over the last 10 years she maintained her clinical appointment as a Senior Lecturer for the northside medical school of the University of Queensland, along with being an associate partner in one of the largest and longest standing private sleep services of the state, Queensland Sleep. Furthermore, in the last few years she pursued medico-legal work for asbestos related lung/pleural disease.
Since her relocation back to Adelaide in early 2019 she has joined with Adelaide Respiratory in order to build on the service given her clinical interests in general thoracic medicine (all respiratory conditions), sleep medicine (all sleep related disorders), bronchoscopy and medico-legal work for asbestos related lung/pleural disease. Provision for inpatient and outpatient services are had at the Calvary Adelaide Hospital, along with inpatient services at the Central Districts Calvary Hospital, St Andrews, and Ashford Hospital, with facilitation of sleep services through the Burnside Private Hospital. Since early 2020, she has also joined the Elizabeth Specialists Suites to further expand on the respiratory and sleep service provided, given her above clinical interests.
Interests:
- General thoracic medicine, including:
– Asthma
– Chronic airways disease
– Bronchiolar disease
– Evaluation of chronic cough - Sleep disorders in general, including:
– Sleep apnoea
– Complex sleep disordered breathing - Bronchoscopy
- Medico-legal work for asbestos related lung/pleural disease
Dr. Zoe D Scounos
BMedSci (Hons), MBBS, FRACP
Dr Zoe D Scounos is a Thoracic and Sleep Physician who underwent her undergraduate training at the University of Adelaide having completed the like in 1995, followed by her postgraduate training and basic physician training in a few of the major public teaching hospitals in Adelaide. At the level of a senior medical registrar in 2003, she underwent a sabbatical in far north Queensland, Townsville in order to manage an acute admissions department at the Mater Hospital, facilitating tertiary acute referrals from a large geographical area including the Pacific Islands. Here she was one of the first Clinical Lecturers for the first cohort of medical graduates of the James Cook University medical school. Furthermore, she provided clinical training and facilitation for overseas doctors in obtaining their Australian qualifications through the Australian Medical Council examinations who were in the field of Anaesthetics. After 3 years in rural Queensland, she relocated to Brisbane in order to pursue and complete her specialty training in Thoracic and Sleep medicine which was mainly had at the nationally and internationally acclaimed chest hospital, The Prince Charles Hospital. Experience in all sub-specialties in thoracic and sleep medicine was obtained, with the latter focussed on at the Greenslopes Private Hospital.
In 2008, she was awarded her fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. This was followed by locum work as a Thoracic and Sleep Consultant within the Thoracic Department of the Prince Charles Hospital combining private work at the Holy Spirit Northside Hospital on adjoining campuses. Combined public and private work were had for 6 years before focusing on sole private practice in the last 4 years. Over the last 10 years she maintained her clinical appointment as a Senior Lecturer for the northside medical school of the University of Queensland, along with being an associate partner in one of the largest and longest standing private sleep services of the state, Queensland Sleep. Furthermore, in the last few years she pursued medico-legal work for asbestos related lung/pleural disease.
Since her relocation back to Adelaide in early 2019 she has joined with Adelaide Respiratory in order to build on the service given her clinical interests in general thoracic medicine (all respiratory conditions), sleep medicine (all sleep related disorders), bronchoscopy and medico-legal work for asbestos related lung/pleural disease. Provision for inpatient and outpatient services are had at the Calvary Adelaide Hospital, along with inpatient services at the Central Districts Calvary Hospital, St Andrews, and Ashford Hospital, with facilitation of sleep services through the Burnside Private Hospital. Since early 2020, she has also joined the Elizabeth Specialists Suites to further expand on the respiratory and sleep service provided, given her above clinical interests.
Interests:
- General thoracic medicine, including:
– Asthma
– Chronic airways disease
– Bronchiolar disease
– Evaluation of chronic cough - Sleep disorders in general, including:
– Sleep apnoea
– Complex sleep disordered breathing - Bronchoscopy
- Medico-legal work for asbestos related lung/pleural disease
Dr. Anuk Kruavit
BMedSci, MBBS, FRACP
Dr. Kruavit is a Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine Physician. Having completed his medical training at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he went on to obtain dual Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in both General Medicine and Respiratory Medicine in 2017, and later completed his Sleep Medicine fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, in 2018. He also spent 2 years during his physician training in the Northern Territory, and has extensive experience in Indigenous Health.
Dr. Kruavit has combined his training and is currently practicing as a Consultant Physician in both fields of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine. He is an active member of several national and international respiratory/sleep and internal medicine societies. He has several scientific publications and continues to be actively involved in research activity. His many interests include chronic cough, airways disease, pleural disease, lung nodule/cancer, interventional pulmonology, obstructive sleep apnoea and complex respiratory sleep disorders, obesity and Indigenous health.
Apart from working at Adelaide Respiratory, Dr. Kruavit also works as a bariatric physician at the Bariatric Management and Intervention Clinic program within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. This is a pre-surgery weight loss program, in conjunction with the bariatric surgery service at Flinders Medical Centre.
His other recent experience includes previously running Respiratory/Sleep service for Indigenous patients at Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Health Care Service (Hillcrest). He would also welcome Indigenous patients at Adelaide Respiratory.
Dr. Kruavit has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital, St Andrew’s Medical Centre, Ashford Hospital, North Eastern Community Hospital and Flinders Private Hospital.
Interests:
Dr. Kruavit is a Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine Physician. Having completed his medical training at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he went on to obtain dual Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in both General Medicine and Respiratory Medicine in 2017, and later completed his Sleep Medicine fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, in 2018. He also spent 2 years during his physician training in the Northern Territory, and has extensive experience in Indigenous Health.
Dr. Kruavit has combined his training and is currently practicing as a Consultant Physician in both fields of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine and General Medicine. He is an active member of several national and international respiratory/sleep and internal medicine societies. He has several scientific publications and continues to be actively involved in research activity. His many interests include chronic cough, airways disease, pleural disease, lung nodule/cancer, interventional pulmonology, obstructive sleep apnoea and complex respiratory sleep disorders, obesity and Indigenous health.
Apart from working at Adelaide Respiratory, Dr. Kruavit also works as a bariatric physician at the Bariatric Management and Intervention Clinic program within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. This is a pre-surgery weight loss program, in conjunction with the bariatric surgery service at Flinders Medical Centre.
His other recent experience includes previously running Respiratory/Sleep service for Indigenous patients at Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Health Care Service (Hillcrest). He would also welcome Indigenous patients at Adelaide Respiratory.
Dr. Kruavit has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital, St Andrew’s Medical Centre, Ashford Hospital, North Eastern Community Hospital and Flinders Private Hospital.
Interests:
- Thoracic malignancies/Lung nodule surveillance:
– Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) bronchoscopy and biopsy - Airways disease:
– Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
– Poorly controlled asthma – biologic therapy
– Bronchitis/Bronchiectasis - Chronic cough
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) – novel anti-fibrotic therapies
- Obstructive/Complex Sleep Apnoea
- Central disorders of hypersomnolence – wakefulness stimulants
- Restless leg syndrome/Periodic limb movement disorder
- Indigenous Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
- Obesity:
– Novel weight loss medications
Dr. Chris Langton
MBBS, FRACP
Dr Langton is a Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician. He was born in Canada and migrated to Australia in 2006 where he completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Flinders Medical School in 2009. He attained his FRACP in 2018 after finishing Advanced Training in respiratory medicine, including a year with special interests in lung cancer and pleural diseases, at Flinders Medical Centre. He subsequently completed an interventional pulmonology fellowship at the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) in Vancouver, Canada in 2019. Upon returning back to Adelaide, he completed a second fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2020.
Dr Langton is a member of several national and international respiratory and sleep medicine societies. He enjoys the opportunity to be involved in education, research and teaching in the fields of respiratory and sleep medicine. He has presented clinical research at national and international conferences.
Dr Langton has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital and St Andrews Hospital.
Interests:
Dr Langton is a Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician. He was born in Canada and migrated to Australia in 2006 where he completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Flinders Medical School in 2009. He attained his FRACP in 2018 after finishing Advanced Training in respiratory medicine, including a year with special interests in lung cancer and pleural diseases, at Flinders Medical Centre. He subsequently completed an interventional pulmonology fellowship at the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) in Vancouver, Canada in 2019. Upon returning back to Adelaide, he completed a second fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2020.
Dr Langton is a member of several national and international respiratory and sleep medicine societies. He enjoys the opportunity to be involved in education, research and teaching in the fields of respiratory and sleep medicine. He has presented clinical research at national and international conferences.
Dr Langton has admitting rights at Calvary Adelaide Hospital and St Andrews Hospital.
Interests:
- Interventional Pulmonology
– Bronchoscopy and transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB)
– Linear endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
– Guided sheath (radial EBUS) biopsy
– Cryobiopsy - Thoracic Malignancies/Lung Nodule Surveillance
– Thoracentesis/Indwelling Tunnelled Pleural Catheter
– Pleural disease
– Lung cancer screening - Airways Disease
– Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)/Emphysema
– Asthma, including biologic therapy
-Bronchiectasis - Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)
– Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and anti-fibrotic therapy - Chronic Cough
- Sleep Medicine
– Obstructive Sleep Apnoea/Sleep Disordered Breathing
– Parasomnia
– Narcolepsy/Idiopathic Hypersomnolence
– Restless Leg Syndrome
Dr. Zoe D Scounos
BMedSci (Hons), MBBS, FRACP
Dr Zoe D Scounos is a Thoracic and Sleep Physician who underwent her undergraduate training at the University of Adelaide having completed the like in 1995, followed by her postgraduate training and basic physician training in a few of the major public teaching hospitals in Adelaide. At the level of a senior medical registrar in 2003, she underwent a sabbatical in far north Queensland, Townsville in order to manage an acute admissions department at the Mater Hospital, facilitating tertiary acute referrals from a large geographical area including the Pacific Islands. Here she was one of the first Clinical Lecturers for the first cohort of medical graduates of the James Cook University medical school. Furthermore, she provided clinical training and facilitation for overseas doctors in obtaining their Australian qualifications through the Australian Medical Council examinations who were in the field of Anaesthetics. After 3 years in rural Queensland, she relocated to Brisbane in order to pursue and complete her specialty training in Thoracic and Sleep medicine which was mainly had at the nationally and internationally acclaimed chest hospital, The Prince Charles Hospital. Experience in all sub-specialties in thoracic and sleep medicine was obtained, with the latter focussed on at the Greenslopes Private Hospital.
In 2008, she was awarded her fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. This was followed by locum work as a Thoracic and Sleep Consultant within the Thoracic Department of the Prince Charles Hospital combining private work at the Holy Spirit Northside Hospital on adjoining campuses. Combined public and private work were had for 6 years before focusing on sole private practice in the last 4 years. Over the last 10 years she maintained her clinical appointment as a Senior Lecturer for the northside medical school of the University of Queensland, along with being an associate partner in one of the largest and longest standing private sleep services of the state, Queensland Sleep. Furthermore, in the last few years she pursued medico-legal work for asbestos related lung/pleural disease.
Since her relocation back to Adelaide in early 2019 she has joined with Adelaide Respiratory in order to build on the service given her clinical interests in general thoracic medicine (all respiratory conditions), sleep medicine (all sleep related disorders), bronchoscopy and medico-legal work for asbestos related lung/pleural disease. Provision for inpatient and outpatient services are had at the Calvary Adelaide Hospital, along with inpatient services at the Central Districts Calvary Hospital, St Andrews, and Ashford Hospital, with facilitation of sleep services through the Burnside Private Hospital. Since early 2020, she has also joined the Elizabeth Specialists Suites to further expand on the respiratory and sleep service provided, given her above clinical interests.
Interests:
- General thoracic medicine, including:
– Asthma
– Chronic airways disease
– Bronchiolar disease
– Evaluation of chronic cough - Sleep disorders in general, including:
– Sleep apnoea
– Complex sleep disordered breathing - Bronchoscopy
- Medico-legal work for asbestos related lung/pleural disease
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CONTACT US
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CONTACT US
- 08 8232 4200
- 08 8232 4210
- admin@adelaiderespiratory.com.au
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Quick Links
For patients
CONTACT US
- 08 8232 4200
- 08 8232 4210
- admin@adelaiderespiratory.com.au
- Level 5, 120 Angas St, Adelaide SA 5000