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Respiratory Medicine Past Speakers
Dr Mark Levy
Dr
Mark Levy is a GP with a special interest in respiratory diseases in
London . He is also a clinical research fellow in the department of
general practice at Edinburgh University.
He is editor of
the Primary Care Respiratory Journal which is the peer review journal
of the General Practice Airways Group. He is a GP appraiser and Quality
Outcomes Assessor. He has helped to implement change in primary care
respiratory medicine internationally.
Dr David Fishwick
Dr
David Fishwick is currently Co-director and Clinical Director for the
Centre for Workplace Health. He is also a Reader in Respiratory
Medicine within the Division of Genomic Medicine at the University of
Sheffield, and Chief Medical Officer at the Health and Safety
Laboratory. He qualified in Medicine from Manchester University and
spent two sabbaticals dedicated to research into occupational lung
disease in Manchester and in Wellington, New Zealand. He
has recently been involved in advisory work with the New Zealand
Government and continues international liaison with Australasian
committees and organisations concerned with occupational health. He also examines for the Royal College of Physicians and for the Faculty of Occupational Medicine.
He has published in the field of asthma, occupational asthma, occupational lung disease and epidemiology. His main current areas of research interest, carried out at the health and safety laboratory in Sheffield, include inflammatory and immunological aspects of occupational exposures, including sensitisers, irritants and endotoxin.
Professor Aziz Sheikh
Professor
Aziz Sheikh is a GP and Professor of primary care, research and
development at the University of Edinburgh. His interest lies in the
epidemiology and primary care management of asthma and allergic
disorders. He chairs the research committees of the British Thoracic
Society, and serves on the General Practitioners in Airways Group
Research Committee. Aziz is an editorial advisor to the British Medical
Journal, serves on the International Editorial Board of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, and is Assistant Editor of the Primary Care Respiratory Journal.
Dr Samantha Walker
Dr
Samantha Walker is director of research at Education for Health
(formerly the National Respiratory Training Centre) in Warwick. Her
research interests include respiratory/allergy care in general
practice. She has published widely on therapeutic treatments for
allergy. She recently established (with Dr Mark Levy) a Practitioners
with Special Interest (PwSI)-led local enhanced service in allergy in
primary care in North West London.
Dr Patrick White
Dr
Patrick White is a Senior Lecturer in General Practice and Primary Care
in the Division of Health and Social Care Research at King’s College
London and a general practitioner at Crown Dale Medical Centre in South
London. He graduated from University College, Dublin in 1976, and
undertook his general practice training in Edinburgh and West Lothian
in Scotland between 1977 and 1981. He joined Crown Dale Medical Centre
in 1981 where he has been in partnership ever since. He began his
academic training in 1981 as a Research Fellow at St George’s Hospital
Medical School in south London, subsequently becoming a lecturer at
King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1987 and later
senior lecturer. His research interest is in the management of
respiratory disease in primary care, particularly COPD. His research
focus is on the delivery of services for COPD, particularly for people
with advanced COPD.
Dr Alex Bobak
Dr
Alex Bobak is senior partner of a General Practice in Wandsworth, South
London. He has also been running specialist smoking cessation clinics
as a GP for several years and is the first GP with Special Interests
(GPSI) in Smoking Cessation in the country. He has carried out research
into pharmacological treatment in smoking cessation.
Working on a chest ward as a junior doctor led him to become a passionate campaigner on the dangers of smoking. He believes that helping smokers to stop is a most important part of Primary Care and is a regular speaker on smoking cessation at meetings throughout the UK.
He was resident doctor on Sky News for five years and regularly contributes on medical matters to TV, radio and the print media.
