Rate My Professor Fiona Lake

Professor Fiona Lake is the Eric Saint Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Western Australia. Holding the qualifications of MBBS, MD, and FRACP, she serves as a Consultant Respiratory Physician and Head of Medical Education at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Her clinical practice centers on general lung conditions, with a particular emphasis on interstitial lung diseases, where she leads multidisciplinary inpatient and outpatient services linking hospital and community care. Lake has held prominent leadership positions in medical education, including Associate Dean at UWA's Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, where she established the Education Centre. Promoted to the Eric Saint Chair in 2009, she was recognized as Head of School, Medicine and Pharmacology.

Lake developed the influential 'Teaching on the Run' program in 2000, evolving into the TELL Centre, which delivers up to 40 workshops monthly training clinicians as effective teachers and supervisors across Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Burma, Taiwan, Ireland, and Saudi Arabia. Her research interests include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease management through multidisciplinary community services, non-invasive ventilation, exercise programs, interstitial lung diseases such as hypersensitivity pneumonitis and cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, respiratory infections in Australian Aboriginal communities, and medical education innovations like peer-assisted learning and skills training. Key publications encompass the book 'Teaching on the Run: Teaching Tips for Clinicians' (MJA Books), the series 'Teaching on the run tips' (2004-2006, Medical Journal of Australia), 'Interstitial lung disease guideline: The British Thoracic Society...' (2008, Thorax), 'A new unsupported upper limb exercise test for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease' (2003, Thorax), and contributions to British Thoracic Society guidelines on interstitial lung diseases. Awarded the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Teaching Fellowship and the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand 50th Anniversary Medal for Education (2013), Lake's 58 publications have garnered over 3,771 citations, impacting respiratory medicine and clinical training profoundly.