James Lordan

Dr James Lordan was appointed 2002 as a consultant physician in respiratory disease with a specialist clinical interest in pulmonary vascular disease, lung transplantation, lung vasculitides, and difficult asthma. He is PI to several clinical lung transplant studies, including the E-CLAD study of Extracorporeal photophoresis in CLAD. Newcastle CTAG Lung representative and ISHLT member.

A graduate of University College Cork (National University of Ireland), with an intercalated Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology at UCC, and a subsequent PhD Thesis assessing the role of Th2 cytokines and allergens in airway inflammation of Atopic Asthma at the University of Southampton. A speaker at many UK national BTS and International lung transplantation symposia and educational events in Scotland. Research interests and publications at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne have included lung transplantation, pulmonary arterial hypertension, severe asthma and lung vasculitides, with a focus on inflammatory and airway remodelling, primary epithelial cell culture systems, epithelial-mesenchymal mechanisms in airway remodelling of chronic airways disease, including post-transplant bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction), asthma, and cystic fibrosis.