Dr Sutton has been a Consultant Respiratory physician based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham since 2013.

He  has a broad range of general and specialist respiratory interests having trained locally and then at tertiary level in the East Midlands.

He is a core member of the lung cancer MDT and was previously chair of the regional mesothelioma MDT for the West Midlands. He  trained in pulmonary intervention specialising in endoscopic procedures and also co-developed the  pleural service including performing same day diagnostic investigations including medical thoracoscopy and implant of indwelling pleural catheters. 

He is a member of the Birmingham Regional Severe Asthma service and the QE Severe Asthma lead specialising in managing complex asthma patients with biologic drugs, large airway and ENT manifestations of asthma.

He is head of clinical respiratory research for QEHB and oversee a number of multicentre respiratory trials across all areas of respiratory medicine with individual involvement in complex asthma, vasculitis and pleural studies. 

He is a member of the West Midlands maternal medicine network and provide respiratory input to the Birmingham Women’s Hospital managing   respiratory conditions in pregnancy.

Outside of the above he also provides input into the regional pulmonary AV malformation MDT and looks after patients with respiratory complications of haematological malignancy.

Disclosures:

Research funding – GSK and Astrazeneca