Personal Info
Dr Bassem Dawood underwent training in respiratory and sleep medicine at Frankston Hospital, the Austin Hospital and the Northern Hospital to attain the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).
Dr Dawood is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP). He likes all facets of respiratory and sleep medicine with special interests in early detection and surveillance of lung cancer. He sees patients with a wide range of respiratory disorders, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchiectasis, sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease (ILD) and lung nodules.
Currently, Dr Dawood works at the Department of Respiratory Medicine at the Northern Hospital. He is part of the lung cancer service at Northern Health. He performs interventional bronchoscopic procedures including endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), to take tissue samples (biopsies) from suspicious lung lesions and nodules.
He has admitting rights at John Fawkner Private and Northern Private hospitals. He also provides peri-operative care in these hospitals.
He is a member of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS).
Dr Dawood is fluent in both English and Arabic.