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BMJ Masterclass for Physicians: Respiratory Medicine list of speakers 2008
 | Professor Wisia Wedzicha |
 | 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. | |
 | Professor John Stradling John Stradling is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Oxford and Director of the Respiratory Sleep Service. He was appointed as an NHS consultant in 1985 and awarded a personal chair at Oxford University in 1999. His main research interests are in the area of sleep related disorders of breathing: epidemiology, cardiovascular consequences, simplified methods of diagnosis, and randomised controlled trials of therapy for OSA. |
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Past chairs and speakers include:
- Professor Wisia Wedzicha, Editor, Thorax and Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University College London, London
- Professor Paul Jones, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School, London
- Professor Peter Calverley, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool
- Professor Paul Corris, Professor of Thoracic Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Professor Rob Stockley, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Lung Resource Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham
- Professor Athol Wells, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London
- Professor Stephen Spiro, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University College Hospital, London
- Professor Tariq Sethi, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
- Dr John Hurst, Specialist Registrar, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London
- Dr John Moore-Gillon Consultant Physician, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Barts and the London NHS Trust
- Professor Ian Pavord
- Professor Stephen Holgate
- Professor Neil Thomson
- Professor Neil Barnes
- Professor William MacNee
- Dr Anita Simonds
- Dr Mark Elliot
- Professor Francis Drobniewski
- Professor Peter Davies
- Dr Ian Campbell
For more information on the speakers, please send us an email to masterclasses@bmjgroup.com.