Pulmonary Medicine
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Professor David Halpin was appointed as a Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine in Exeter in 1994. He has a busy clinical practice and for 13 years he was Clinical Lead for the Department in Exeter, overseeing the growth in its clinical and research activity. He is also an Honorary Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute (OPRI) in Singapore. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Initiative on Obstructive Lung Diseases (GOLD) and of the GOLD Science Committee. He was the Chairman and Clinical Expert for the COPD Guideline Development Group of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK.
He studied medicine at Brasenose College, Oxford University (first class honors) & St Thomas Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1986. He was awarded an MRC scholarship to undertake a D.Phil. in the Department of Human Anatomy at Oxford University, between his pre-clinical and clinical training. He trained in respiratory medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and a Member of the British Thoracic Society (BTS), European Respiratory Society (ERS) & American Thoracic Society (ATS). He has served on various BTS committees. In 2018 he was elected as a Fellow of ERS in recognition of lifetime excellence and contributions to research, education, and clinical leadership in respiratory medicine.