Dr Phillip Braslins

Adjunct Associate Professor - Faculty of Medicine and Health; School of Rural Medicine

Biography

Dr Braslins is a Consultant Physician for Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, who graduated from the University of Newcastle with an MBBS in 1990. He also holds a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a Doctorate of Philosophy (Epidemiology). He has held academic appointments at universities in Australia and the USA, and was the Dean of the Tablelands Clinical School from 2013 to 2017. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and a member of the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases.

Dr Braslins’ research interests center around treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and dermatovenereology. He has received the Maxwell Finland Young Investigators Award from the Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society, and the Edward Kass Award for Clinical Excellence from the Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society, and has worked as principal investigator or co-investigator on a number of research projects in Australia and the USA.