Arjun Nair MD, MRCP, FRCR

Arjun Nair is a Consultant Radiologist with a sub-specialty interest in cardiothoracic imaging at University College London Hospital and an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. Arjun’s research interests include implementation, standardisation and quality assurance of lung cancer screening, integrating imaging biomarkers of cardiopulmonary health, and imaging of diffuse lung disease.

Arjun was awarded the Thoracic Imaging Fellowship at the Royal Brompton Hospital between 2011 and 2013, and during this time completed his thesis on “Computed Tomography Reading Strategies in Lung Cancer Screening”, for which he was awarded an MD by the University of Edinburgh in 2014. He has been actively involved in a number of lung screening trials in the course of his research, beginning with the UK Lung Screening Pilot trial in 2011 and continuing through the SUMMIT Lung cancer screening study over the last 5 years.

Arjun was appointed Joint Clinical Lead for the National Targeted Lung Health Checks programme in 2019. Arjun is the author/co-author of several peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters on cardiothoracic imaging. He is currently a member of several committees, including the European Society of Thoracic Imaging Diploma Committee and the British Thoracic Society Pulmonary Nodule Guideline Development Group.