Dr Tolhurst is one of Australia’s most experienced Sleep Physicians with an extensive Sleep Medicine practice and was previously the lead Clinician in Australia’s largest diagnostic sleep service provider. His particular areas of clinical interest include conservative treatment options for OSA (without the need for CPAP therapy), assessing sleepiness, narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnolence and central sleep anpoea. He has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications and case-studies related to Sleep Medicine and was one of the co-authors of the Australasian Sleep Association’s previous guidelines on the performance of Sleep Studies in adults. Dr Tolhurst regularly provides expert medico-legal opinion in cases involving Sleep Medicine and is a member of the Medico-legal Society of Queensland.
Dr Tolhurst was awarded the Lynn D Walters memorial award for excellence in clinical teaching and holds the title of senior lecturer with the University of Queensland. He is an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, he has previously been the director of clinical training at Greenslopes Private Hospital, and remains actively committed to the training of medical students and allied health staff.
The majority of Dr Tolhurst’s Respiratory practice now focuses on complex bronchoscopy with the aim of providing an accurate and rapid diagnostic service for lung lesions (especially lung cancer) and other complex respiratory patients, as well as non-surgical management of end-stage emphysema with endo-bronchial techniques.