Rate My Professor Dennis Thomas

Dr. Dennis Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, affiliated with the Hunter Medical Research Institute. A mid-career clinical researcher and experienced clinical trialist with over 15 years in designing and managing trials, his investigations focus on respiratory diseases, particularly asthma mechanisms and treatments, including remission as a goal, oral corticosteroid and antibiotic stewardship, treatable traits model of care, and digital asthma care. Thomas completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Pharmacy from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, India. He then pursued a PhD at Monash University on system change interventions for smoking cessation, encompassing a Cochrane systematic review, a large multi-centre randomized controlled trial, and development and validation of the Challenges to Stopping Smoking (CSS-21) scale. Earlier, he worked nearly five years in the pharmaceutical industry as a Clinical Research Manager, gaining expertise in clinical research. Post-PhD, he led Australia's largest telehealth-based phase 3 smoking cessation RCT (N=1,452) at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, from 2016 to 2019, before joining the University of Newcastle.