Dr. John Nicholls

Dr John Nicholls MBBS (Hons) FRACP is a Consultant Respiratory Physician who completed
his undergraduate training at the University of NSW in 1980. He then did his postgraduate
training in internal medicine specialising in Respiratory Medicine at both Concord and
St George Hospitals in Sydney. He was awarded his fellowship from the Royal Australasian
College of Physicians in 1988.
He has extensive experience in both Respiratory and General Medicine having worked in
Canberra since 2006 and before that in Port Macquarie. In Canberra, he has worked in both
the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and the General Medicine Unit at
The Canberra Hospital. He was the Director of the Respiratory Unit at The Canberra Hospital
in 2021. He has also attended both National Capital Private Hospital and Calvary John James
Private Hospital. He continues to work in private practice.
Dr Nicholls has wide experience in Respiratory Medicine with particular interests in airways
disease (severe asthma, COPD), interstitial lung disease, lung cancer/nodules and advanced
bronchoscopy (introduced EBUS at The Canberra Hospital). He does not do Sleep Medicine.
He has been very involved in Medical training and was a Senior Lecturer at the ANU. He has
also been a Supervisor of both Basic and Advanced physician trainees and was a local
examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.