Professor in Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease, Honorary Consultant Physician

National Heart and Lung Institute (Imperial College London)

Clinical

• Diagnosis and management of occupational and environmental respiratory diseases
• Investigation and management of workplace respiratory disease issues

Current Research Interests

Distribution, aetiology and effects of respiratory disease with particular emphasis on their occupational and environmental relationships

• asthma, COPD, interstitial and asbestos-related lung diseases related to work
• early-life determinants of childhood asthma
• effects of traffic exposures
• epidemiology of interstitial lung diseases and cystic fibrosis
• respiratory effects of industrial or environmental disasters

Roles

Advisor to a number of government bodies and medical organisations in his specialist field of occupational and environmental causes of lung disease.

Qualifications

• MD, FRCP