Education and Media
Tom believes that the current generation of medical specialists have a responsibility to provide our future doctors with the very highest standard of education.
Tom teaches respiratory and sleep medicine to medical students, doctors just entering the workforce, doctors undertaking specialist training, and general practitioners who require an update on the latest treatment advances. He also supervises students' respiratory and sleep research projects, including Masters and PhDs.
He holds clinical teaching titles at Flinders University and the University of Adelaide.
In addition, Tom makes media appearances to increase awareness of sleep and lung diseases. See some of his recent contributions in the articles below.
Watch Tom and the sleep scientists from Flinders University in Dr Michael Mosley’s three-part SBS series
Renowned British medical journalist and chronic insomniac Dr Michael Mosley came to Australia to wake the nation up to the dangers of poor sleep with his eye-opening series Australia’s Sleep Revolution with Dr Michael Mosley.
Watch it now via SBS On Demand.
Triple J Hack
Inside a sleep clinic
It's not the most relaxing way to fall asleep - wired up in a hospital bed and monitored via several cameras - but Hack's James Purtill was willing to be studied at Sydney's Woolcock Institute so we could talk about the connection between sleep and health.
Nine Honey
4 ways snoring impacts your sex life, relationship and health
Roughly 81 per cent of middle-aged Australian men snore for at least 10 per cent or longer of the night, according to Dr Thomas Altree, respiratory and sleep physician at Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health.
Flinders Foundation
Scholarship shines spotlight on sleep conditions
Flinders researchers hope to improve sleep quality and breathlessness among patients with highly prevalent sleep conditions, with the help of a Clinician PhD Scholarship co-funded by Flinders Foundation and Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI).