Professor Neil Tolley was born in Birmingham. He attended medical school at Cardiff. He trained in London, South Africa and Australia.
Dr Patrizia Viola enrolled in medical school in Italy from 2001 – 2007, where she graduated with the highest grade and honours. During her final two years of medical school she completed an MD on the relationship between cervical cancer and HPV-induced lesions.
In Feb 2008 she passed the state exam and became a member of the Italian equivalent of the GMC (General Medical Council).
Between 2009 and 2014, Dr Viola participated in the pathology training program as specialist register in histo/cytopathology. In July 2012 she registered with the GMC and spent two months as visiting fellow at UCLH. Betweeen 2014 and 2016 she became a clinical fellow at The Royal Brompton Hospital, then worked as consultant histo/cytopathologist at Whittington Health until November 2016 where she was specialty leader for lung and gynaecological pathology.
She has been on the GMC specialist register since 2014 and joined Imperial Colllege Healthcare NHS Trust in November 2016.
Additional languages spoken: Italian
Dr Christopher Wadsworth completed specialist training in London, including posts at St Mary’s, Hammersmith and St Mark’s hospitals. He completed his PhD at Imperial College, London, investigating novel techniques for endoscopic imaging of the biliary tree and pancreas. He undertook a short travelling fellowship to the hepatobiliary unit at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota and spent a year as senior fellow in advanced pancreatobiliary endoscopy at Aintree Hospital, Liverpool.
Dr Ward qualified MBBS with distinction from Barts and the London School of Medicine in 2001. She trained in respiratory and general medicine in South Thames (including King’s, Guy’s and St Thomas’) and at the Royal Brompton Hospital and became a consultant in 2016. She gained a PhD in respiratory physiology in 2012 and has published and collaborated on many peer reviewed research papers over the last 12 years. Her research interests cover physiology of cough, breathlessness and respiratory failure in patients with respiratory and multisystem disease.
She is an honorary senior lecturer for Imperial College London School of Medicine. Dr Ward participates in the general medical take (admitting patients via A & E) as well as working on the acute respiratory unit and gives respiratory opinions for patients on the wards at the Trust. She performs diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy and pleural procedures. She has respiratory outpatient clinics at Hammersmith Hospital for interstitial lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis including connective tissue disease in the lungs) and for vasculitis affecting the lung (EGPA (Churg Strauss), GPA (Wegener’s) and others). Clinics are always held alongside rheumatology and renal physicians. She has a particular interest in multisystem disease affecting the lung and works closely with renal physicians and rheumatologists. She has set up a joint clinic at for scleroderma and connective tissue disease patients with lung involvement with Dr Maresa Carulli, consultant rheumatologist.
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