Prof Richard Beasley
SpeakerCNZM, DSC(OTAGO), DM(SOUTHAMPTON), MBCHB, FRCP(LONDON), FRACP, FAAAAI, FFOM(HON), FAPSR(NEW ZEALAND), FERS, FRSNZ:
Professor Richard Beasley is a physician at Wellington Regional Hospital, Director of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, and Professor of Medicine at Victoria University of Wellington. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Otago and Visiting Professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He is the Chair of the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ Adolescent and Adult Guidelines Working Group, and a member of the ARFNZ Scientific Advisory Board, and was previously the deputy chair of the health research council of NZ. His research interests in respiratory medicine are primarily in the fields of epidemiology and clinical management. He has over 600 publications, and a Scopus H-index of 77.