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Respiratory Medicine Speakers 2009
Professor Wisia Wedzicha
Wisia Wedzicha is a professor of respiratory medicine at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London. She qualified at Somerville College, Oxford and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London. Professor Wedzicha has a major interest in the causes, mechanisms and impact of COPD exacerbations and has published extensively on this topic. She is also an expert on home oxygen therapy and non-invasive ventilation in patients with COPD, and has chaired the British Thoracic Society (BTS) working group on home oxygen therapy. She is currently chairing the BTS Home Oxygen Guidelines Group. Professor Wedzicha is a member of the Guideline Development Group for the revision of the NICE COPD guidelines and a member of the programme board for the COPD English National Clinical Strategy. She co-chaired the acute and the medicines, devices and intervention subgroups. Professor Wedzicha is currently Editor in Chief of the respiratory journal Thorax, a member of the BMJ advisory board and on the editorial board of a number of international journals.
Ms Christine Mikelsons
Christine Mikelsons is a respiratory physiotherapist with over 20 years’ experience of chronic respiratory disease. She has special interests in pulmonary rehabilitation, oxygen therapy and in acute and long term non-invasive ventilation (NIV). She has contributed to the Royal College of Physicians concise guideline for acute NIV, the clinical strategy for COPD and the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care/British Thoracic Society Physiotherapy guidelines. Christine is an experienced lecturer and regularly contributes to postgraduate programmes in cardiorespiratory physiotherapy.
Professor Tariq Sethi
Tariq Sethi underwent undergraduate medical training at Selwyn College Cambridge, and clinical training at Guy’s Hospital London. He gained a PhD in neuropeptide signalling in small cell lung cancer, working with Dr E Rozengert of University College London/Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He was MRC Travelling Fellow in the vascular biology laboratory of Dr Mark Ginsberg, at Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Leave Fellow. At present Tariq is professor of respiratory and lung cancer biology at the University of Edinburgh, having spent the past 17 years undertaking research on the mechanisms regulating lung cancer growth and drug resistance.
Dr David Fishwick
David Fishwick is a reader (and honorary consultant) in respiratory and general medicine at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He also co-directs the Centre for Workplace Health, a collaboration between the Hospital Trust, the University of Sheffield and the Health and Safety Laboratory, an agency of the Health and Safety Executive. He has a clinical and research interest in occupational lung diseases, and a particular interest in occupational asthma and COPD. Dr Fishwick researched into occupational lung disorders; first in Manchester examining aspects of cotton and organic dust exposures, and, second, in New Zealand for two years, working with the Wellington Asthma Research Group.
Dr Noeleen Foley
Noeleen Foley is a consultant in respiratory medicine at Royal United Hospital, Bath, having trained in Dublin and London. As lecturer in medicine at the Middlesex Hospital and University College London, Dr Foley trained in respiratory, HIV and intensive care areas before working as a consultant in respiratory and HIV medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, where she also held a weekly sarcoidosis clinic.
Since moving to Bath, she has worked closely with the rheumatologists at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Disease. In addition to combined clinics for patients with connective tissue disease, there is a satellite pulmonary hypertension clinic for patients with scleroderma and pulmonary hypertension. Dr Foley’s research interests are interstitial lung disease and the respiratory manifestations of rheumatological disease.
Professor Sebastian Johnston
Sebastian Johnston is professor of respiratory medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London, UK. His main disciplines are pulmonology, allergy and immunology and infectious disease.
Professor Johnston qualified in medicine from Guy’s Hospital, London in 1982, gained his PhD from Southampton University in 1993 and was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1999.
He is past chairman of the infection groups in both the European Respiratory Society and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He is chair of the Asthma Section, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and became editor of Thorax in January 2003.
Professor Johnston’s main interest is the clinical control of acute exacerbations of asthma and COPD, with emphasis on the pathogenesis of asthma and COPD exacerbations. His principal research interest has been the role of respiratory viruses in acute exacerbations of asthma and COPD. Other interests include antiviral immunity, immune regulation and susceptibility to viral infection, the contribution of viral infection/colonisation to chronic stable airway disease, the molecular mechanisms of virus induced inflammation and antiviral and anti-inflammatory treatments.
Dr John Moore-Gillon
Consultant Physician, Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospitals, London
