My current role
I work in respiratory medicine at CUH with a clinical interest in pleural disease. I lead the pneumothorax service. My clinical research focuses on rare diseases associated with pneumothorax including Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome. My laboratory research concerns diseases involving by cellular stress, including alpha1-antitryspin deficiency and pleural mesothelioma.
In Cambridge, I direct the MB/PhD program. Nationally, I direct the NHS Rare Disease Collaborative Network (RDCN) in Familial Pneumothorax and co-lead the LifeArc Rare Respiratory Disease Centre.
Previous history
I was a member of the MB/PhD programme at University of Cambridge then undertook post-graduate clinical training in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh, and post-doctoral research fellowships in New York and Cambridge.
Membership and accreditations
- MB/BChir 1996
- Member of the Royal College of Physicians 1999
- CCT Respiratory and General Internal Medicine 2008
- Member of the British Thoracic Society 2000
- Member of the British Society for Cell Biology 2009
- Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge 2011
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London 2011
- Fellow of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland 2025
Personal interests
I am interested in education and am a trustee of the educational charities Alliance Française d'East Anglia and Greenwood Academies Trust.