Draft:Nitin Kapur

Nitin Kapur. FRACP MD PhD is a paediatric respiratory and sleep physician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane,. Australia, and President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Personal life
Kapur is of Indian descent and grew up in Delhi, India where he attended medical school at the Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi.

Career
Kapur pursued respiratory and sleep medicine after being awarded a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship which led to his move to University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He then moved to Brisbane under the Endeavour Asia Awards, where he did his Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Training at the Royal Children’s Hospital and completed a PhD from the Charles Darwin University.

In 2022, Kapur became Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He is currently the Director of Clinical Training and the Director of Paediatric Education at the Queensland Children’s Hospital. His clinical and research interests include Cystic Fibrosis, bronchial asthma, pre-school wheeze, chronic cough, paediatric sleep disorders and bronchiectasis, in which he has a PhD.

He is the current President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. In this role, Kapur leads campaigns in Australia and New Zealand to raise the age of criminal responsibility and limit exposure of children to junk food advertising, and the Kids Catch up campaign.

Selected publications

 * Kapur N, Masters IB, Chang AB. Longitudinal growth and lung function in pediatric non-CF bronchiectasis - what influences lung function stability? Chest. 2010 July;138:158-164
 * Kapur N, Grimwood K, Masters IB, Morris PS, Chang AB. Lower airway microbiology and cellularity in children with newly diagnosed non-CF bronchiectasis. Pediatr Pulmonol 2012 Mar;47(3):300-7.
 * Kapur N, Petsky HL, Bell S , Kolbe J , Chang AB . Inhaled corticosteroids for bronchiectasis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2018 May 16;5:CD000996. doi: 10.1002/14651858
 * Kapur N, Masel J, Watson D, Masters IB, Chang AB. Bronchoarterial ratio on High Resolution CT scan of the chest in children without pulmonary pathology– Need to redefine bronchial dilatation. Chest 2011 Jun;139(6):1445-50
 * Kapur N, Masters IB, Newcombe P, Chang AB. The burden of disease in paediatric non- cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis. Chest. 2012 Apr;141(4):1018-24.