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Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant respiratory physician Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust, honorary Senior Lecturer imperial College

Research interests

Sarcoidosis, Interstitial Lung Disease, Lung fibrosis, symptom control of chronic fibrotic lung diseases, bronchiectasis, interventional bronchoscopy

Publications

Rituximab in severe, treatment-refractory interstitial lung disease.
Gregory J Keir, et al Respirology. 11/2013;

Importance of onsite cytopathology at endobronchial ultrasound.
Clare Elizabeth Honor Craig, Melissa Wickremasinghe et al
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Evaluation of screening methods for identification of patients with chronic rheumatological disease requiring tuberculosis chemoprophylaxis prior to commencement of TNF-α antagonist therapy.
Aran Singanayagam et al Thorax 08/2013;


Transcriptional blood signatures distinguish pulmonary tuberculosis, pulmonary sarcoidosis, pneumonias and lung cancers.
Chloe I Bloom, et al PLoS ONE 01/2013; 8(8):e70630

Primary nodal anthracosis identified by EBUS-TBNA as a cause of FDG PET/CT positive mediastinal lymphadenopathy
Richard J. Hewitt, et al Respiratory Medicine Case Reports. 01/2013; 10:48–52

Obstructive lung function in sarcoidosis may be missed, especially in older white patients.
M Thillai,et al European Respiratory Journal 03/2012; 39(3):775-7.

A comparison between two strategies for monitoring hepatic function during antituberculous therapy.
Aran Singanayagam, et al American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 12/2011; 185(6):653-9

Sarcoidosis and tuberculosis cytokine profiles: indistinguishable in bronchoalveolar lavage but different in blood.
Muhunthan Thillai, et al PLoS ONE 01/2012; 7(7):e38083. · 3.73

Utility of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in patients with tuberculous intrathoracic lymphadenopathy: a multicentre study.
Neal Navani,et al Thorax 08/2011; 66(10):889-93

Enumeration of functional T-cell subsets by fluorescence-immunospot defines signatures of pathogen burden in tuberculosis.
Rosalyn Casey,et al PLoS ONE 01/2010; 5(12):e15619

Paradoxical reactions in non-HIV tuberculosis presenting as endobronchial obstruction.
S Bloch,et al European Respiratory Review 12/2009; 18(114):295-

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria in patients with bronchiectasis.
M Wickremasinghe,et al Thorax 01/2006; 60(12):1045-51

Pulmonary epithelial cells are a source of IL-8 in the response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: essential role of IL-1 from infected monocytes in a NF-kappa B-dependent network.
M I Wickremasinghe, et al The Journal of Immunology 11/1999; 163(7):3936-47

Courses offered to GPs

I will be conducting a GP imperial college trust education day 2014 on lung fibrosis, sarcoidosis, and symptom control in chronic fibrotic lung diseases.