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Lungs at Work team visits Kimberly-Clark, Northfleet Mill

23 March, 2017

Members of our clinical and lab team visited Kimberly-Clark's Northfleet Mill site in Gravesend, Kent.  Pictured (left to right) are Sean Young (FY1 doctor visiting our department on work...

Prof Anthony Newman Taylor, Jo Feary and Paul Cullinan present at 'Health and Wellbeing at Work 2017' conference, Birmingham NEC, 7-8 March 2017

7 March, 2017

Professor Anthony Newman Taylor, Jo Feary and Paul Cullinan are speaking at the 'Health and Wellbeing at Work 2017' conference, Birmingham NEC on 7-8 March - and they hope to see you there!

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Jenny Welch and Jo Szram participate in International Rare Disease Day

28 February, 2017

Two members of the Lungs at Work team participated in the Royal Brompton Hospital public engagement event marking International Rare Disease Day.  ...

Second "EuroGORDS meeting" - held in London

7 February, 2017

Following on from the first "EuroGORDS" meeting, held in Leuven last October - kindly hosted by Professor Ben Nemery - the second “EuroGORDS” meeting took place at the Royal Brompton Hospital,...

Our department wins SOM Christmas Hamper in photo competition

2 February, 2017

Our department are the lucky winners of a hamper of lovely goodies from Fortnum & Mason, very generously provided by the Society of Occupational Medicine (and sponsored by Empactis). 

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Sara De Matteis attends meeting in Luxembourg re. March 2016 EHC Brussels workshop

25 January, 2017

A small delegation of ERS members - Maeve Barry and Marine Faure (Brussels office), Dick Heederik (Chair Assembly Occupation and Epidemiology), Sara De Matteis and Torben Sigsgaard (both EHC...

Silvia Colicino presents at the 'Colt Research Day', London

24 January, 2017

Silvia Colicino was one of nine Colt-funded and -supported current students (plus one former student) invited to present their research findings at the annual Colt Research Day, held on 24 January...

Sara De Matteis talks at University of Milan on her COPD study

21 December, 2016

Sara De Matteis was invited to give a talk, as visiting professor, on ‘Occupations associated with COPD risk in the UK Biobank cohort study’, at 'Università degli Studi di Milano', S. Paolo...

Carl Reynolds wins funding for IPF Job Exposures Study

19 December, 2016

Carl Reynolds has been awarded a £317,313 grant to carry out an IPF Job Exposures Study, supervised by Paul Cullinan.

Carl won a prestigious Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training...

Spirometry - Lung Function Testing in the Workplace - Intermediate Level Study Day - Leicester

15 November, 2016

Kays Medical will host a ‘Spirometry - Lung Function Testing in the Workplace - Intermediate Level Study Day’ in Leicester on Tuesday 15 November.  This is aimed at occupational health...