Dr David Kiely

David is a Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Medicine and an Honorary Senior Lecturer with a sub-speciality interest in Pulmonary Vascular Disease and leads a nationally designated Pulmonary Hypertension Centre. 

He graduated from the University of Edinburgh and completed a period of post-graduate research investigating the cardiopulmonary interactions of hypoxia and hypercapnia and the role of vasoactive mediators in the pulmonary circulation. He completed his post-graduate training in Cambridge before moving to Sheffield in 2001.

His clinical interests include pulmonary hypertension and associated multisystem diseases.  In addition to respiratory clinics he has specialist clinics in pulmonary vascular and a respiratory / connective tissue disease. 

David has helped develop screening protocols for pulmonary hypertension and has contributed to national guidelines on the management of pulmonary hypertension.  He has recently worked with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists developing guidelines for the management of pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the UK Scleroderma Group.  He has participated in several international multi-centre studies evaluating the efficacy of new therapies for pulmonary hypertension and is currently involved in research examining the non-invasive assessment of pulmonary vascular disease and the role of exercise programmes in pulmonary hypertension.