Frank Thien

Name Francis Thien Current Appointments Director of Respiratory Medicine (2008 - present ) Eastern Health, Box Hill Hospital Level2, 5 Arnold Street, Box Hill Victoria 3128, Australia Adjunct Professor (July 2012 - present ) Monash University Department of Medicine Adjunct Professor (2006 - present ) RMIT University, Faculty of Health Sciences Executive Positions in Professional Societies President Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI) 2016 – 2018 Vice President & Secretary: Chinese Health Foundation of Australia (CHFA) 2000 – 2011 Past President: Australian Chinese Medical Association (Vic) 2003 – 2006 Medical Education Monash Medical School (1978 to 1983)  Monash University, Clayton, Victoria Employment History Position Institution Year Resident/Registrar Training Alfred Hospital Melbourne and Guy’s Hospital London 1984-1994 Physician/ Senior Lecturer Department of Respiratory Medicine Alfred Hospital 1994 -1996 Visiting Respiratory Physician Box Hill Hospital 1995 – 2008 Staff Specialist/Senior Lecturer Department of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, Alfred Hospital 1996 – 2003 Visiting Physician/Clinical Associate Professor Department of Allergy, Immunology & Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Hospital 2003 – 2008 Postgraduate Qualifications Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) Feb 1992 Fellowship of the College of Chest Physicians (FCCP) 1995 Doctor of Medicine (MD) Monash University Dec 1995 Thesis “Eosinophils, n-3 fatty acids and asthma” Membership of Professional Bodies American Thoracic Society Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy Australian Medical Assocation Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Research focus  Since 2009, 5 NHMRC project grants in a wide range of clinical translational research including acupuncture for seasonal allergic rhinitis (APP555412), ginseng in COPD (APP616609), magnetic resonance imaging of asthma (APP606944), physiological aetiology of refractory asthma (APP1005922) and mechanism of bronchial thermoplasty in asthma (APP1180854) with overall NHMRC research grant income in excess of AUD$3.76 million.  CIA in a 2013 Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment Facilities (ARC-LIEF) grant on “Hyperpolarised gas functional lung and molecular imaging” (LE130100035, $300,000). Publication track record Over 182 publications listed in PubMed with most recent publications on thunderstorm asthma and bronchial thermoplasty.