Rate My Professor David Cottee

Conjoint Associate Professor David Cottee is affiliated with the School of Medicine and Public Health in the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He holds the qualifications MBBS, PhD, and FANZCA, as a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. His academic journey at the University of Newcastle began as a PhD student in human physiology, where in 1990 he received the Gilbert Brown Prize and Medallion alongside Dr Adrian Quail, under the supervision context of Professor Saxon White. Cottee maintains a conjoint appointment, reflecting his dual clinical and academic roles in anaesthesia and intensive care.

Cottee's research focuses on the integrated autonomic control of regional coronary and bronchial circulations, chemoreflex and baroreflex mechanisms, and the modulatory effects of anaesthetic agents on cardiorespiratory responses during severe arterial hypoxia, exercise, and bronchoconstriction. His publications include 'Dexmedetomidine Modification of the Chemoreflex Response to Severe Arterial Hypoxia in the Rabbit' (2018), 'Central Modulation of Arterial Chemoreceptor Control by Midazolam during Severe Arterial Hypoxia in the Rabbit' (2015), 'Peri-operative Levosimendan in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: An Overview of the Evidence' (2015), 'Differential effects of inhaled methacholine on circumferential wall and vascular smooth muscle of 3rd generation airways in awake sheep' (2012, Journal of Applied Physiology), 'Selective effects of inhaled methacholine on 3rd generation bronchial blood flow and airway dimensions in awake sheep' (2012), 'Mammalian differences in vagal-cholinoceptor control of coronary conductance' (2011), 'Mammalian differences in baroreflex control of coronary conductance' (2010), 'Integrated autonomic control of bronchial blood flow and third generation airway dimensions during exercise' (2010), 'Effects of graded exercise on bronchial blood flow and airway dimensions in sheep' (2007), 'Autonomic control of bronchial blood flow and airway dimensions during strenuous exercise in sheep' (2007), 'Neural Control of the Bronchial Circulation' (2003), and 'Effect Of Fentanyl On Baroreflex Control Of Circumflex Coronary Conductance' (2001). Affiliated with the Discipline of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, he has produced 29 publications exploring physiological responses relevant to anaesthesia practice.