ProfessorNick Hopkinson
Professor of Respiratory Medicine
National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Professor of Respiratory MedicineNational Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Muscle Lab, South Block, Royal Brompton Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
I am a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at The National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College and an Honorary Consultant Physician at The Royal Brompton Hospital, responsible for the Advanced COPD service. My research interests in COPD include lung volume reduction, skeletal muscle impairment, exercise and physical activity, as well as tobacco control. I have published more than 250 papers, and my work has been cited more than 24,000 times. My research has been funded by the MRC, The NIHR, The Wellcome Trust, The British Lung Foundation / Asthma + Lung UK, as well as The Moulton Foundation.
As Chair of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) I have been active in tobacco control advocacy, including as a member of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group.
I am Medical Director of the charity Asthma + Lung UK.
Elected Council Member of The Royal College of Physicians in 2025.
I have served on British Thoracic Society Council and chaired its Specialist Advisory Group on COPD.
Online Editor of Thorax. Editorial board member, American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine.
I was clinical lead for the development of the NICE rapid guideline on COVID-19 and COPD and served on the 2018/19 NICE COPD Guideline Update Committees I am Specialist Adviser to NICE’s Interventional Procedures Programme, on NICE’s Centre for Guidelines (CfG) panel of Expert Advisers and the NICE stakeholder insight group for health technology evaluation. Medical Technologies Advisory Committee – Early Value Assessment: Digital pulmonary rehabilitation technologies for COPD
Member of the NHS England Specialist Commissioning Lung Volume Reduction Priority Working Group.
I was elected to be an Invited Specialist of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group.
I served on the London Respiratory Network Clinical Leadership Group and NHS England’s Expert Working Group on Sustainable Inhalers and was a member of the Royal College of Physicians Inequalities Reference Group.
I served on the US COPD Foundation COPD Biomarker Qualification Consortium (CBQC) developing endurance exercise and physical activity level as outcome measures.
DEGREES
- PhD, MedicineImperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 May 2005 - 1 May 2005
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Respiratory Medicine
MEDIA GUIDE
- Members of the media are welcome to contact me about my research and areas of expertise