Dr John Feenstra
Dr John Feenstra graduated from the University of Queensland Medical School in 1996 and completed his advanced training in thoracic and sleep medicine in Brisbane. He has completed two fellowship years, one in Sleep Disorders, and the other in Pulmonary Hypertension and Lung Transplant. Dr Feenstra has been in private practice since 2008 at the Wesley Hospital. In 2008, he established the Welsey Pulmonary Hypertension Unit to provide assessment and management of pulmonary hypertension. A senior lecturer of Medicine with UQ, Griffith and Bond Universities, Dr Feenstra is also the academic lead for medicine at the UnitingCare Health Clinical School.
Prince Charles Hospital first to offer BPA treatment in Queensland
Dr Feenstra working with the team at the Prince Charles Hospital are pleased to be able to offer patients with CTEPH (a particular form of pulmonary hypertension) a newly developed treatment - balloon pulmonary angioplasty.
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty or BPA is a medical interventional therapy to treat patients with CTEPH who are ineligible for PEA. It is a safe, highly efficacious technique involving dilatation of segmental and sub-segmental obstructions of the pulmonary arterial tree in patients with inoperable CTEPH.
Dr Feenstra and the Prince Charles team worked with UC San Diego Health to bring this emerging treatment to Queensland.
We have moved!
Yes, you can still find us at the Wesley Hospital campus but we have new rooms. We have moved to the Sandford Jackson Building (the building closest to the Main Hospital. We are on Level 3, Suite 70.