DrJames Allinson

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine

BIO

James Allinson is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at NHLI and a consultant respiratory physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital.

Dr Allinson graduated in 2002 from St Peter’s College, University of Oxford and completed his postgraduate training at Oriel College, University of Oxford in 2005. He trained in respiratory and general medicine in London and was awarded a PhD from Imperial College London in 2018. He leads research exploring how COPD and lung health develops across the life course aiming to find ways to improve the treatment of those with established disease.

Dr Allinson co-chairs the Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) which brings together ​physiologists, respirologists, epidemiologists and statisticians to improve how lung function tests are ​interpreted.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2019 - present
  • Honorary Clinical Associate Professor
    University College London, London, United Kingdom1 Jun 2022 - present

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Consultant Respiratory Physician
    Royal Brompton Hospital, COPD and sleep ventilation, London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2019 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
  • MRCP Speciality Certificate Examination in Respiratory Medicine
    Royal College of Physicians, London, United Kingdom
  • MRCP
    Royal College of Physicians, London, United Kingdom
  • BMBCh
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • BA(hons)
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Medicine

POSITION NAME

  • Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

FIELDS OF RESEARCH