Professor Moira Whyte
Moira Whyte is Honorary Consultant Physician in
Respiratory and General Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Foundation NHS Trust, based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. She is
also Professor of Respiratory Medicine and heads the Academic Unit of
Respiratory Medicine and the Section of Infection, Inflammation and
Immunity at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University
of Sheffield.
Moira trained in medicine at the University of London, qualifying from
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1984. She undertook postgraduate training
in respiratory medicine predominantly at the Hammersmith Hospital,
London. She held an MRC Clinical Training Fellowship at the Royal
Postgraduate Medical School and a Wellcome Advanced Fellowship at the
University of Nottingham and Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London.
Moira’s subspeciality interests are in interstitial lung diseases and
asthma. She undertakes specialist clinics in each of these areas,
together with a General Respiratory Clinic. She also holds an adolescent
respiratory clinic together with Dr Rob Primhak, which alternates
between Sheffield Children’s Hospital and the Royal Hallamshire
Hospital. The Asthma Clinic is shared with Professor Ian Sabroe. The
Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic is held on alternate Thursdays and sees
patients across the range of interstitial lung diseases including
fibrosing alveolitis (CFA/IPF), sarcoidosis and rarer lung diseases.
Patients are often referred from other respiratory physicians but also
from primary care, typically when a chest x-ray has suggested a patient
may have interstitial lung disease.
The Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine has wide ranging research
interests. For further information please see our web pages at the
University of Sheffield.
We have a programme of basic laboratory research into mechanisms of
innate immunity, particularly in the regulation of inflammatory cell
apoptosis in infectious and non-infectious lung disease. We are part of
the worldwide GAIN (Genetics of Asthma International Network)
consortium. Professor Whyte is
subspecialty lead for the
Interstitial Lung Disease Service. |
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