ProfFraser Brims
Professor
Curtin Medical School
BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH IMPACT
Fraser Brims is a Consultant Respiratory Physician and Head of Department at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Professor at Curtin Medical School. He is chair of the WA Mesothelioma Registry and is Deputy Director of the Institute for Respiratory Health where he heads the Occupational and Respiratory Health research group.
His has a clinical and research interests in occupational and asbestos related diseases, and early lung cancer detection. He leads the WA Asbestos Review Program, the largest lung cancer early detection program in Australia. Fraser is the lead investigator for the LUCAP project - a national collaboration working to imporve the standards of luing cancer care across Australia.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- ProfessorCurtin University, Curtin Medical School, Perth, Australia1 Dec 2018 - present
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Consultant Respiratory PhysicianSir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Perth, Australia14 Jan 2013 - present
DEGREES
- MBChBUniversity of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- MDUniversity of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- PgDip (Clinical Trials)University of London, London, United Kingdom
- FRACPRoyal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, Australia
- FRCPRoyal College of Physicians, London, United Kingdom
- FThorThoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, Australia29 Mar 2026 - present
ROLE
- Staff
SUPERVISOR LEVEL
- Level 1 (Primary Supervisor): The lead academic responsible for overseeing the candidate's research and progress.
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
- 3201 - Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
- 3202 - Clinical sciences
- 3204 - Immunology
- 3211 - Oncology and carcinogenesis
- 3213 - Paediatrics
- 3505 - Human resources and industrial relations
- 3801 - Applied economics
- 4202 - Epidemiology
- 4203 - Health services and systems
- 4206 - Public health
DEPARTMENT
- Curtin Medical School