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Respiratory Medicine Speakers 2008
Professor Wisia Wedzicha
Wisia
Wedzicha is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at University College
London and the Royal Free and University College Medical School,
London. She has a major interest in the causes and mechanisms of COPD
exacerbations and she has published extensively on this topic.
Professor Wedzicha is also an expert on home ventilatory support and
is the Chair of the British Thoracic Society working group on home
oxygen therapy. She was a member of the Guideline Development Group for
the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence COPD
guidelines. She is also Editor in Chief of Thorax and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Professor Chris Brightling
Chris
Brightling is a Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant
Respiratory Physician at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. His research
is focussed on understanding the pathophysiology and improving the
clinical management of airway disease. In particular, he has major
interests in the utilisation of inflammatory markers in the management
of airway diseases and the role of mast cell-airway smooth muscle
interactions in asthma. He is a member of the BTS/SIGN guideline
committee and has co-written the ‘Difficult Asthma’ Section, which is
to be included for the first time in 2008. He is the European
representative on the ACCP Cough Guidelines, is an associate editor for
Chest and is on the editorial board of other specialist respiratory journals.
Dr Lawrence McAlpine
Lawrence
McAlpine trained in Respiratory and General Medicine in Glasgow and is
Consultant Respiratory Physician at Monklands Hospital, Airdrie,
Lanarkshire. He has interests in respiratory physiology and lung cancer and he is Lead Clinician for Lung Cancer in Lanarkshire. He
also has significant commitments to postgraduate training and
examinations through the Postgraduate Deanery and Royal College of
Physicians.
He introduced a full-time hospital smoking cessation service in 2000 and was Chairman of the British Thoracic Society Tobacco Committee from 2004 to 2007.
Professor Peter Calverley
Peter
Calverley is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of
Liverpool, and Honorary Consultant Physician at the University Hospital
Aintree, Liverpool. His main research interests are the pathophysiology
and management of COPD and sleep and breathing disorders. Professor
Calverley is an Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal and of Thorax.
He is also an executive member of the WHO/NHLBI GOLD initiative, Chair
of its Dissemination Committee, and Vice President of the British
Thoracic Society.
Dr Robert Davies
Robert
Davies is Reader and Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at the Oxford
Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford University. He is Director of
the Oxford Pleural Clinic which has focused on research into and the
treatment of pleural diseases for over ten years. His clinical and
research activities focus on pleural infection, inflammation and
malignancy. He chaired the British Thoracic Society guidelines for the
management of pleural disease, is a member of the BTS thoracoscopy and
pleural guideline update group, and is a regular speaker on pleural
disease including pleural infection, malignant pleural effusion and
thoracoscopy.
Dr Mark Woodhead
Mark
Woodhead is a Consultant in general and respiratory medicine at
Manchester Royal infirmary and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the
University of Manchester. He trained at King’s College
Hospital, London, Nottingham City and University Hospitals, St James’s,
St George’s and the Royal Brompton Hospitals in London. He moved to
Manchester as a Consultant in 1992. In Nottingham he developed an
interest in lung infections which has continued.
He is Guidelines Director for the European Respiratory Society, is a Section Editor of the European Respiratory Journal and is chairman of the European Respiratory Society LRTI Guidelines committee which published Guidelines in 2005. He is a co-author of The British Thoracic Society Guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia and the BTS/BIS/HPA Guidelines on clinical management of Pandemic Influenza. He is also a co-editor of the recently published international textbook Respiratory Infections.
Dr Maxine Hardinge
Maxine
Hardinge trained at Bristol University, qualifying in 1988, and went on
to start her respiratory training in Southampton. She joined the Oxford
Centre for Respiratory Medicine at the Churchill Hospital in 1993, when
she started her MD thesis on non-invasive ventilation with Professor
John Stradling. Since then she has worked with the Oxford Sleep Unit,
in the clinical service looking after the obstructive sleep apnoea
service, and domiciliary non-invasive ventilation patients. In 2000 she
became a Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine and broadened
her interests to become clinical lead for COPD and pulmonary
rehabilitation, in addition to continuing work as a sleep physician.
