Respiratory Medicine consultants

Dr Henry Bettinson

Principal hospital: Churchill
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine / Critical Care
Special interests: high dependency care, pulmonary hypertension and TB

Tel: 01865 225234

Email: henry.bettinson@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Andrew Chadwick

Principal hospital: John Radcliffe
Specialty: Critical Care / Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: high dependency care and asthma

Andrew graduated from the University of Oxford Medical School in 2008. He completed his higher specialist training in both Intensive Care and Respiratory Medicine throughout the Thames Valley.

He has a particular interest in patient safety management with a focus on improving psychological safety and incident reporting culture.

Tel: 01865 225230

Email: andrew.chadwick@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Stephen Chapman

Principal hospital: Churchill
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: Cystic Fibrosis and bronchiectasis

Stephen graduated from the University of Oxford Medical School in 1998 with a first class degree in Natural Sciences and remained in Oxford for specialist training in Respiratory and General (Internal) Medicine. He was appointed as Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals in 2010.

He has subspecialty clinical interests in cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, pneumonia and complex lung infection. His major research interest is the study of human genetic susceptibility to severe bacterial respiratory disease.

Tel: 01865 225713

Email (Secretary): natasha.richardson@ouh.nhs.uk

Research web page

Dr William Flowers

Our team - Oxford Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre

Dr Emily Fraser

Biography to follow.

Dr Maxine Hardinge

Principal hospital: Churchill
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: COPD, sleep and ventilation

Maxine has been Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine in Oxford since 2000. She is based at the Oxford Centre of Respiratory Medicine. She trained at Bristol University and worked in Bristol, Salisbury and Southampton, coming to Oxford in 1993 to do research for an MD on non-invasive ventilation.

She is lead clinician for COPD, pulmonary rehabilitation and oxygen services in Oxford, and provides medical support for the county-wide respiratory specialist nursing team.

Tel: 01865 225234

Email: maxine.hardinge@ouh.nhs.uk

Professor Timothy Hinks

Principal hospital: John Radcliffe
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interest: asthma

Timothy graduated from the University of Oxford Medical School in 2001 and has undertaken research in Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton and Melbourne.

He completed higher specialist training in Wessex where he undertook a PhD into the immune mechanisms of severe asthma. His research and clinical interests are focused on immunological and clinical aspects of severe asthma and the role of airways infections in driving symptoms in some forms of asthma.

Rachel Russell-Sharp: 01865 227625

Research: 01865 612893

Prof Ling Pei Ho

Principal hospital: Churchill
Specialty: Chest Medicine
Special interests: sarcoidosis and interstital lung disease

Tel: 01865 225223

Email: ling-pei.ho@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Rachel Hoyles

Principal hospital: Churchill
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine and General Medicine
Special interest: interstitial lung disease

Tel: 01865 225223

Dr Alastair Moore

Principal hospital: Churchill
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: lung cancer, diagnostic and interventional bronchoscopy

Tel: 01865 225252

Email: alastair.moore@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Annabel Nickol

FRCP PhD BSc Dip Mnt Med FRGS

Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: Sleep and Ventilation Lead, respiratory and high altitude medicine and physiology

Annabel Nickol is a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and leads the Oxford Sleep and Ventilation service, which is one of the larger UK centres with around 17,000 patients on long-term CPAP and 750 on NIV, many of whom have complex needs.

She is medical advisor to the Sleep Apnoea Trust Association, Co-chair of the OSA Alliance and was a member of the NICE OSAHS Guideline committee.

She graduated from Guys and St Thomas' in London in 1995, then worked in New Zealand, South Wales and London before moving to Oxford.

She was able to indulge her passion for Respiratory Physiology in her youth with research into control of breathing at sea level and high altitude (BSc, First Class Hons, London 1992) and sleep at high altitude (Chairman of 'Medical Expeditions'). She later translated that work into observing physiological changes in patients with ventilatory failure initiating nocturnal NIV (PhD, Brompton, London, 2004). She is part of the UK Clinical Sleep Research Network, helping optimise OSA treatment through clinical trials.

Tel: 01865 225252

Email: annabel.nickol@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr John Park

Clinical Lead

Biography to follow.

Prof Ian D Pavord

MA DM FRCP

Principal hospital: Churchill
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: airway diseases (asthma, COPD, chronic cough)

Ian Pavord is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Physician at the OUH. He is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. He was a Consultant Physician from 1995 and Honorary Professor of Medicine from 2005 to 2013 at the Institute for Lung Health, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

He has a research interest in the clinical aspects of inflammatory airway diseases (asthma, cough, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and pioneered the clinical use of non-invasive measures of airway inflammation in these conditions.

Tel: 01865 225235

Email: ian.pavord@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Stacey (Research): 01865 612893

Dr Nayia Petousi

MA (Cantab) MB BChir MRCP (UK) DPhil

Principal hospital: Churchill and John Radcliffe
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: special airways clinic (asthma), post COVID-19 sequalae, respiratory physiology

Nayia Petousi holds a degree in Medicine from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil in Biomedical Basic Sciences from the University of Oxford, supervised by Professors Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Peter Robbins.

She undertook her higher specialist training in respiratory medicine in Cambridge, gaining experience in all aspects of lung disease including pulmonary vascular diseases, and in Oxford, where she was also an academic clinical lecturer prior to her consultant post.

She is active in research as a BRC Senior Clinical Research Fellow:

Experimental Medicine Division - Nayia Petousi

Prof Najib Rahman

BM BCh MA (oxon) MSc (LSHTM) FRCP FERS DPhil

Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: pleural medicine, ultrasound, thoracoscopy, clinical trials

Najib Rahman is Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Director of the Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit and Research Lead for the Pleural Service.

He completed his DPhil in pleural infection in 2010 and was appointed as a consultant in 2012. He runs multicentre and multinational clinical trials in pleural infection, pneumothorax, malignant pleural effusion and a wide range of other respiratory diseases. He has published over 300 papers and is widely cited in the literature.

He is trained in pleural interventions (including indwelling pleural catheters, image-guided biopsies, thoracoscopy), thoracic ultrasound, EBUS and bronchoscopy.

He is Chair of multiple BTS and ERS treatment guidelines in pleural disease, and is National Lead for Respiratory Research at the NIHR Clinical Research Network.

Tel: 01865 225252

Email: najib.rahman@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Simon Richards

Dr Peter Saunders

Principle hospital: Churchill
Sub-specialty interest: Interstitial Lung Disease

Peter graduated from Imperial College, London in 2006. He completed his Respiratory training in the North West Thames region in 2019. During his training he spent four years at the Royal Brompton ILD Unit as a clinical research fellow and was awarded a PhD from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial for his research into cough in fibrotic lung diseases.

Tel: 01865 225252

Email: peter.saunders@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Anny Sykes

Principal hospital: Churchill
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: lung cancer and pleural medicine, interventional bronchoscopy

Anny has been part of the consultant body since 2013, having previously been working at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

In addition to her clinical role she has had leadership roles including Lead of the Thames Valley Lung Cancer Alliance group, Director of Safety and Effectiveness, Director of Clinical Improvement and Interim Chief Medical Officer.

Anny is currently Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director of Medical Workforce.

Tel: 01865 225252

Email: anny.sykes@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Nicholas Talbot

Biography to follow.

Dr Ambika Talwar

Biography to follow.

Dr Chris Turnbull

Biography to follow.

Dr John Wrightson

DPhil MA FRCP

Principal hospital: Churchill
Specialty: Respiratory Medicine
Special interests: lung cancer and pleural medicine, diagnostic and interventional bronchoscopy, thoracic ultrasound, thoracoscopy

John Wrightson is Pleural Lead and Head of School of Medicine for NHS England, Thames Valley. He undertook his DPhil studying pleural diseases and received further specialist training in lung cancer.

He is trained in advanced thoracic ultrasound, endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy, image-guided pleural biopsies, indwelling pleural catheter insertion and thoracoscopy.

He has published in the fields of pleural disease and thoracic ultrasound, has organised the British Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society ultrasound courses and has been an invited speaker on American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society pleural disease courses.

Tel: 01865 225252

Email: john.wrightson@ouh.nhs.uk