Dr Lewis Holmes is a dedicated Respiratory and Sleep Physician with extensive clinical training at Concord, Liverpool and Dubbo Hospitals, complemented by a specialised fellowship in Sleep Medicine from Concord Hospital. Lewis prioritises providing efficient and compassionate care in the management of a broad array of respiratory conditions and symptoms. These include airways disease such as asthma, COPD and bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease and the rapid investigation and management of pulmonary nodules and lung cancer. He has a particular interest in sleep medicine, and the diagnosis and management of causes of daytime tiredness including obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy and insomnia.
He is a clinical associate lecturer at Macquarie University Hospital, and investigator in several clinical trials, with access to the latest treatments for his patients. He is proficient in diagnostic procedures including flexible bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound to diagnose and manage respiratory disease.
A Respiratory Physician is a medical professional who specialises in diagnosing, treating and preventing conditions and diseases affecting the respiratory (breathing) system.
Respiratory diseases affect the nose, nasal passages, sinuses, throat, larynx, trachea (windpipe), lungs, chest wall, diaphragm and pulmonary circulation (circulation of the blood through the lungs).
Generally Respiratory Physician see patients whom have medical conditions affecting their lungs or other parts of the respiratory system, these medical conditions could include:
