Rate My Professor Lutz Beckert

Beckert's research interests include venous thromboembolism, respiratory physiology, sleep medicine, clinical audits, pleural disease, and research into teaching. His expertise covers asthma and respiratory diseases such as smoking-induced lung disease (COPD, lung cancer), pulmonary embolism, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, as well as lung function testing and oxygenation during flying. He led a major international study demonstrating that most young patients with collapsed lungs do not require chest drains, thereby changing global clinical management practices. Beckert has contributed significantly to teaching, convening the inaugural Cardio-Respiratory module and the fourth-year Clinical Orientation programme for over 20 years, and collaborating on Hauora Māori education, including the annual hikoi to Ōnuku Marae. For his teaching in the Clinical Orientation programme, he received the University of Otago, Christchurch Matariki Staff Value Gold Medal. Key publications include 'High Flow Nasal Oxygen and Low Flow Oxygen Are Equally Effective in Providing Oxygenation During Bronchoscopy Under Conscious Sedation: A Randomised Controlled Trial' (2025), 'Review of the New Zealand Asthma and Respiratory Foundation’s New Zealand Adolescent and Adult Asthma guidelines' (2025), 'The Oxygenation Benefits Provided by High‐Flow Nasal Oxygen In Bronchoscopy may be underestimated' (2026), 'Participant perspectives on end-of-life health care services for chronic lung disease' (2025), and 'Consent to medical student teaching: an observational, cross-sectional study exploring the patient view' (2025).