Peter Wark Email & Phone Number

Experienced Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Respiratory Disease, Clinical Research, Medical Education, Sleep Medicine, and Hospitals. I have Strong education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Medicine from University of Newcastle. I am a senior staff specialist in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle and a conjoint Professor with the University of Newcastle. He is a senior investigator with the Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs and the Vaccines Immunology Viruses and Asthma research group at the Hunter Medical Research Institute. He is a chief investigator in the NHMRC Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma.My research interests are; airway inflammation in the context of chronic airways disease, innate immunity and the role of infection in chronic airways disease. My group has developed expertise in identifying respiratory viruses in airway secretions and developing an in-vitro cell culture model of the airway epithelium that we use to model the effect of infection and inflammation. My research focuses upon factors that increase susceptibility to virus infection in asthma, COPD, Cystic Fibrosis and bronchiectasis. Characterising airway inflammation in chronic airways disease and applying this to clinical care, as well as the development of precise individualised management strategies.I am the centre director for the John Hunter Adult Cystic Fibrosis clinic that manages over 100 adult patients with CF in the context of a multidisciplinary team. He works in the severe asthma clinic as well as in general respiratory clinics at John Hunter Hospital and runs indigenous outreach clinics at Narrabri and Moree. He is chairperson for the Hunter New England Local Hospital network respiratory stream, responsible for the provision of respiratory services throughout the Hunter New England area, with a catchment population of 840,000.

Listed skills include Hospitals, Clinical Research, Medical Education, Public Health, and 4 others.