BM BCh MA (oxon) MSc, DPhil, FERS Professor of Respiratory Medicine Director, Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, University of Oxford Consultant Pleural Physician, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford National Specialist Lead for Respiratory, NIHR CRN NIHR Senior Investigator
Najib Rahman Directs the Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit and works clinically as a pleural specialist. Having qualified in Oxford he underwent the medical SHO rotation at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, and re-joined Oxford as a Specialist Registrar in 2003. He undertook a DPhil and MSc in this period and was appointed Director of the Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit and Consultant Lead for Pleural Disease in Oxford in 2011. He was appointed as Professor of Respiratory Medicine in 2018, and is currently running randomized and observational studies in pleural infection, pneumothorax and malignant pleural effusion. He is trained in Thoracoscopy, Thoracic Ultrasound and Clinical Trials methodology, and has published over 300 papers with citations of >6000 and an H-index of 62. He is co-chair of the BTS Pleural Guidelines 2023, Chair of the BTS Pleural Intervention Committee 2023, Chair of multiple ERS guidelines on pleural disease, Senior NIHR Investigator and National Speciality Lead for Respiratory Research for the UK Clinical Research Network.

is Asthma and Lung UK Chair of Respiratory Research at the University of Dundee and a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK. He has published more than 350 research papers in the field of respiratory infections. His clinical and research interests are in Bronchiectasis, COPD and respiratory infections. He has chaired international guidelines for COVID19, Bronchiectasis and COPD. He is current Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal and Chair of the Science and Research Committee of the British Thoracic Society

Professor Morice is Head of Respiratory Medicine at HYMS, based at the University of Hull. He is also an Honorary Consultant Physician at Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Professor Morice specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of cough, and runs the Hull Cough Clinic. He also runs the Hull Respiratory Clinical Trials Unit, specialising in the treatment of asthma and COPD. The Hull Cough Clinic is one of the largest centres within Europe, with an international pattern of referral. Unique investigational strategies provide diagnosis and treatment advances, which are incorporated into national and international guideline documents. Professor Morice has led the European Respiratory Society and British Thoracic Society Taskforces on Cough.