Steven Walker MBChB, PhD

Dr. Steve Walker is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and Specialist Registrar in Respiratory Medicine. His research interest is the management of pneumothorax, and he has published extensively on this. He has led several studies in the field, including the HISPEC trial on ambulatory management of pneumothoraces in patients with underlying lung diseases.

He is also involved with the committed trial which aims to evaluate whether conservative care for traumatic pneumothoraces is superior to usual care. He is leading the current European Respiratory Society guideline on pneumothorax and collaborated on the 2022 British Thoracic Society Pleural Disease Guidelines.