Dr Dustin Mills
Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Physician, Townsville University Hospital & Queensland Children's Hospital, Australia

Dr Dustin Mills is a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Physician at Townsville University Hospital and Queensland Children’s Hospital, Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy and medical degree at Griffith University and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).

Dustin is currently a PhD candidate at The University of Queensland, where his research focuses on paediatric bronchiectasis, including factors influencing disease reversibility, lung function trajectories, and long-term clinical outcomes. His broader clinical and research interests span the chronic wet cough spectrum, from protracted bacterial bronchitis to established bronchiectasis, with a particular focus on early diagnosis, prognostic factors, and reducing inequities in respiratory health outcomes for children and young people.

He has authored and presented work nationally and internationally in paediatric bronchiectasis. He has undertaken additional training internationally, including locum work at Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland and a fellowship through Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he worked with Indigenous communities throughout Atlantic Canada. He remains actively involved in Indigenous respiratory outreach services across North Queensland and the Torres Strait and supports paediatric respiratory care across the Pacific through Taking Paediatrics Abroad, providing regular respiratory consultations to clinicians caring for children in Pacific Island nations.