Overview
Background
I am a physician at RBWH where I did my undergraduate training. I subspecialised in THoracic Medicine with a focus on bronchoscopy. I helped to create a large interventional service here. Part of that inlcuded instituting endobronchial ultrasound ( EBUS), an Australian first, in 2003. This has become standard of care for diagnosing lung cancer.
My research has been centred on how specimens from EBUS can be optimised. I have had strong collaboration with UQCCR, Pathology Queensland and QIMR Berghofer. Our work has expanded on 2 fronts- 1. use of simple cytology smears as the source for panel molecular testing and 2. The expanded role of WES and WGS on these samples.
We have instituted a large Australia wide collaborative network who are collecting samples along with us( The Debutant studies).We have Cancer Council Australia / CCQ/ and NHMRC grants fr these studies
Availability
- Associate Professor David Fielding is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and Medical Science, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Lung Cancer Genomics
The Debutant study is an Australia wide study ( based at RBWH and UQCCR and QIMR Berghofer) of maximising the utility of specimens for lung cancer genomics when they are collected at biopsy using Endobronchial ultrasound.
Research impacts
Our work has proposed workflow solutions including use of diff quik smears as alternative samples to formalin base samples for genomic study
Our work has built upon the idea of smears being " what yiou see is what you get" as far as samples for genomics, and the way smear microscopy can predict DNA content of the samples, thereby alllowing decision making for genomic testing
We will also continue to build workflow solutions starting from small increasing to large panel, then WES, then WGS, hopefully putting these concepts into the clinic
Works
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1980
Journal Article
THE RESPONSE OF DAY AND NIGHT WETTING CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WHO WET ONLY AT NIGHT TO RETENTION CONTROL TRAINING AND THE ENURESIS ALARM
FIELDING, D (1980). THE RESPONSE OF DAY AND NIGHT WETTING CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WHO WET ONLY AT NIGHT TO RETENTION CONTROL TRAINING AND THE ENURESIS ALARM. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 18 (4), 305-317. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(80)90089-3
1978
Journal Article
OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF POSTURES AND LIMB MOVEMENTS OF CHILDREN WHO WET BY DAY AND AT NIGHT
FIELDING, D, BERG, and BELL, S (1978). OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF POSTURES AND LIMB MOVEMENTS OF CHILDREN WHO WET BY DAY AND AT NIGHT. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 20 (4), 453-461.
1977
Journal Article
PSYCHIATRIC DISTURBANCE, URGENCY, AND BACTERIURIA IN CHILDREN WITH DAY AND NIGHT WETTING
BERG, , FIELDING, D and MEADOW, R (1977). PSYCHIATRIC DISTURBANCE, URGENCY, AND BACTERIURIA IN CHILDREN WITH DAY AND NIGHT WETTING. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 52 (8), 651-657. doi: 10.1136/adc.52.8.651
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor David Fielding is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
Second Primary Lung Cancer in HNSCC patients: understanding the high risk patient
Associate Advisor
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Master Philosophy
Second Primary Lung Cancer in HNSCC patients: understanding the high risk patient
Associate Advisor
Completed supervision
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Improving Pleural Procedures: Training, Image Analysis and Pleural Manometry
Principal Advisor
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2025
Master Philosophy
Second Primary Lung Cancer in HNSCC patients: understanding the high risk patient
Associate Advisor
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
The Role of Exhaled Breath Analysis in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Lung Diseases
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kwun Fong, Professor Ian Yang, Associate Professor Paul Zimmerman
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