Meet Our Lung Health Team

We’ve invited the UK’s best respiratory specialists to join us as partners, with the freedom to make design and delivery decisions based on what’s best for patients.

Our Specialists

Meet our team of partner doctors. Individually, they’re technically skilled, highly-rated leading specialists within respiratory medicine.

Dr Susannah Bloch

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: Bronchoscopy, Lung Cancer, Lung Nodules, COVID/Post-COVID syndromes, Respiratory Failure, General Respiratory Disease, Respiratory Medicine.

Bookings are avaliable

Dr Dean Creer

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: Respiratory Infections, Bronchiectasis, Respiratory Medicine, Asthma, Breathlessness, COPD, Acute and chronic cough, Lung Cancer Screening, Lung Nodules, Tuberculosis, EBUS, Bronchoscopy.

Professor Sujal Desai

Consultant Radiologist

Specialist expertise: Interstitial Lung Diseases, Lung Cancer, Lung Cancer Screening, Airways Diseases, Respiratory Medicine.

Bookings are avaliable

Dr Peter George

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: Interstitial Lung Diseases, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Sarcoidosis, Post-COVID Lung Inflammation and Scarring, Autoimmune-related Lung Diseases, Breathlessness, Acute and chronic cough, Respiratory Medicine.

Bookings are avaliable

Professor Luke Howard

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test (CPET), Pulmonary Embolism, Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Heart Catheterisation, Breathlessness, Exercise Intolerance, Respiratory Medicine.

Mr Simon Jordan

Consultant Thoracic Specialist

Specialist expertise: Lung Cancer, Chest Sarcoma, COPD, Respiratory Medicine.

Dr Neal Navani

Consultant Respiratory Physician

Specialist expertise: Respiratory Medicine, Endobronchial Ultrasound, Bronchoscopy, Lung Cancer, Acute and chronic cough, Asthma, Lung Nodules, Breathlessness, COPD, Sarcoidosis, Bronchiectasis, EBUS, Exercise Intolerance, Sleep Disorders.

Professor Andrew Nicholson

Consultant Respiratory Pathologist

Specialist expertise: Histopathology, Cytopathology, Immunochemistry (Diagnostic and Therapy-related), Respiratory Medicine.

Bookings are avaliable

Dr Brian O'Connor

Consultant Respiratory Physician

Specialist expertise: Asthma, COPD, Allergic Disease, Lung Cancer, Respiratory Medicine.

Professor Onn Min Kon

Consultant Respiratory Physician

Specialist expertise: Respiratory Infections, Tuberculosis, Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria, Sarcoidosis Interventional Bronchoscopy, General Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Asthma, COPD, Bronchiectasis, Sarcoidosis.

Professor Simon Padley

Consultant Radiologist

Specialist expertise: Cardiac Imaging, Thoracic Imaging, Interventional Radiology, Cancer Imaging, Thoracic High Resolution CT scanning, Thoracic MR Scanning, Bronchial and Pulmonary Angiography, Thoracic Intervention and Ultrasound, Cardiac CT Angiography, Functional and Morphological Assessment, Respiratory Medicine, Radiology.

Bookings are avaliable

Dr Amit Patel

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: Breathlessness, Fibrosis, Sarcoidosis, Sleep Apnea, Asthma, Acute and chronic cough, Respiratory Medicine, COPD, Lung Cancer, Respiratory Failure, Interstitial Lung Diseases, Bronchiectasis.

Bookings are avaliable

Professor Michael Polkey

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: COPD, Sleep, Snoring, Home Ventilation, General Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Medicine.

Professor Pallav Shah

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: COPD, Emphysema, Asthma, Bronchoscopy, EBUS, Lung Cancer Screening, Respiratory Medicine.

Bookings are avaliable

Professor Suveer Singh

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: General Respiratory, Sleep and Ventilation Disorders, COPD, Asthma, Lung Cancer, Interventional Bronchoscopy, Intensive Care Medicine, Respiratory Medicine.

Bookings are avaliable

Dr Melissa Wickremasinghe

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: Pulmonary Fibrosis, Interstitial Lung Diseases, Sarcoidosis, Tuberculosis, Respiratory Medicine.

Bookings are avaliable

Dr Christopher Orton

Respiratory Physician

Specialist expertise: Airways Diseases, Lung Cancer, Interventional Bronchoscopy, Respiratory Medicine, Asthma, Emphysema, Acute and chronic cough, Bronchoscopy, EBUS.

Mr Marco Scarci

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon

Specialist expertise: Lung Health, Thoracic Surgery, Respiratory Infections, Lung Cancer, Chest Wall Deformities, Laparoscopic Procedures (Keyhole Surgery).

Professor Adrian Williams

Respiratory Consultant and Sleep Specialist

Specialist expertise: Sleep Disorders, Sleep Apnea, Sleep, Respiratory Medicine, Lung Health.

Bookings are avaliable

Dr Anand Shah

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: Respiratory Medicine, Bronchiectasis, Acute and chronic cough, Breathlessness, Lung Health.

Dr Matthew Hind

Respiratory Physician

Specialist expertise: Breathlessness, Cough, Respiratory Infections, Sleep, Snoring, COPD, Respiratory Failure, Lung Health.

Bookings are avaliable

Dr Owais Kadwani

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: Pleural Effusions, Pneumothorax, Asthma, Breathlessness, Cough, COPD, Lung Cancer, Lung Nodules, Haemoptysis, Bronchoscopy, Chest Ultrasound, Respiratory Medicine.

Dr Richard Hewitt

Respiratory Consultant

Specialist expertise: Interstitial Lung Diseases, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, Connective Tissue Disease - Associated Lung Disease, Sarcoidosis, Post-COVID Lung Abnormalities, Respiratory Medicine, Cough, Breathlessness.

Bookings are avaliable

Dr Reza Abdullah

Consultant Respiratory Physician

Specialist expertise: Respiratory Medicine, Cough, Breathlessness, Asthma, COPD, Lung Nodules, Lung Cancer, Pleural Effusions, Pneumothoraces, Bronchiectasis, Bronchoscopy, EBUS.

Our supporting clinicians

The Air Physiotherapy Team


Air Physiotherapy

OneWelbeck Lung Health has partnered with London’s leading respiratory physiotherapy specialists, Air Physiotherapy, to provide a complete service for those suffering from breathing problems.

The team consists of four specialist respiratory physiotherapists who deliver face-to-face clinics, home visits and virtual consultations. Each physiotherapist is a specialist within the respiratory field and has extensive experience in world class institutions such as the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.

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Vijay Padmanaban

Vijay Padmanaban is a Clinical Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist and an extended scope practitioner in respiratory medicine. He currently leads the Acute Integrated Respiratory (AIR) team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is non-medical independent prescriber and does advanced clinical practice as part of his NHS work. He holds a master’s degree in Physiotherapy and post graduate diploma in Respiratory medicine.

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Mr Vijay Padmanaban
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