I am a senior lecturer and consultant physician in respiratory and general medicine teaching medical and paramedical staff at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
I support teaching research and audit by all disciplines in order to build an enthusiastic department and to promote academic and clinical co-operation between hospital and community practitioners and between respiratory medicine and thoracic surgery.
My clinical and research interests are particularly in respiratory infections suppurative lung diseases and cystic fibrosis chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and interstitial lung disease. I also have clinical experience of HIV infection antibody deficiency and iatrogenic immunosuppression and of tropical infections. These interests developed from earlier training in infectious diseases and immunosuppression and from my research on antimicrobial agents Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and HIV infection.
I was trained in the treatment of HIV infection in 1989-92 and in adult cystic fibrosis in 1996.
I was a clinical research fellow in cystic fibrosis for one year before completing my specialist training in 1998.
'The treatment I have received from all the staff has been excellent and could you extend my thanks to them all. A very thankful and relieved patient'.
Patient, Dermatology Outpatients Department, University Hospital of North Durham