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.
Primary medical qualification
Miss Lisa Webber is a consultant gynaecologist and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) accredited subspecialist in reproductive medicine.
She graduated from Oxford University Medical School and later obtained her PhD at Imperial College London, studying the development of preantral follicles in the normal and polycystic ovary.
She specialises in disorders of ovarian function and all aspects of polycystic ovary syndrome, including the fertility and non-reproductive effects. She was previously a consultant at University College Hospital NHS Trust before re-joining Imperial College Healthcare.
Lisa co-chaired the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) guideline on premature ovarian insufficiency published in December 2015. She has published in The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and the Journal of Endocrinology. She was a contributing author to the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (5th edition), the Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes and co-author of a patient information book entitled Infertility: The Facts.
Dr Florian Wernig is a Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. Dr Wernig has a strong basis in research as well as training from top London institutions. He completed his MD in molecular endocrinology at the University of Innsbruck and carried out further research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at St George’s University of London. His postgraduate training was in endocrinology as general internal medicine in London on the Imperial/Hammersmith rotation. Florian is experienced in all aspects of endocrinology but has a particular interest in pituitary disease, neuroendocrine tumours, thyroid cancer and adrenal disorders. He remains actively involved in research and is principle investigator for several national and international multicentre clinical trials. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the Endocrine Society, the British Society of Endocrinology and the European Society for Endocrinology.
Dr Zachary Whinnett completed his undergraduate training in medical sciences at the University of Nottingham and trained as a junior doctor on the Bart’s and the London medical rotation. He moved to Imperial College, London to undertake a PhD and was awarded a British Heart Foundation junior research fellowship.
He completed his clinical speciality training at world-leading centres in London and Bordeaux.
Dr Whinnett leads a research programme which is focused on improving treatments for heart failure and patients at risk of arrhythmias. He has published extensively in this field.
Languages spoken: German