Supporting the development of public health guidance for long COVID

Professor Mike Tipton (Project Chair)

Policy Committee Chair, The Physiological Society and Professor of Human & Applied Physiology at the Extreme Environments Laboratory, University of Portsmouth

Mike is Professor of Human & Applied Physiology at the Extreme Environments Laboratory at the School of Sport, Health & Exercise Science at the University of Portsmouth and Chair of The Physiological Society’s Policy Committee as well as one of The Society’s Trustees. 

Mike’s research focuses on the physiological and psychological responses to adverse environments and the selection, preparation and protection of those who enter such environments and his research underpins the RNLI "Fight your Instincts" and Float First" campaign. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2018 for "services to physiological research in extreme environments”. 

Dr Zudin Puthucheary

Project co-chair, Queen Mary University of London, UK and Intensive Care Society

Zudin graduated from Nottingham University in 1997 and moved to London post MRCP in 2000. Following a 3-year stint in Sydney, he started his Respiratory training in Bristol, before completing his critical care training in London.

His research interests are in muscle wasting, critical care nutrition and functional outcome research, which began when he was a National Institute for Health Research Fellow in Respiratory and Critical Care at University College London.

Charlotte Summers

University of Cambridge, UK

Charlotte graduated in both Biomedical Sciences and Medicine from the University of Southampton, UK, and later undertook a PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK investigating the role of inflammation on the pulmonary transit kinetics of human neutrophils, alongside specialist clinical training in Respiratory (East of England) and Intensive Care Medicine (London). She was subsequently appointed as the UK’s first NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, and went on to be awarded a Fulbright All-disciplines Scholar Award and a Wellcome Trust Fellowship for Postdoctoral Clinician Scientists. Charlotte joined the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine in 2015 from University of California, San Francisco. She is currently the Chief Investigator of HEAL-COVID, an NIHR funded “Urgent Public Health clinical trial of national importance.

Dr Daniel Martin

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, UK

Daniel is a senior lecturer in the UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science and Director of the UCL Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine. He is also honorary Consultant in anaesthesia and critical care medicine at the Royal Free London Hospital and Council Member of the Intensive Care Society.

Dr Pratima Chowdary

Consultant Haematologist, Royal Free London, UK

Pratima is co-centre director for the haemophilia centre and specialises in the management of adult patients with haemophilia and related bleeding disorders. She is also the coagulation lead for HSL London and serves as a treasurer for the United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors Organisation. She has been a consultant haematologist for 10 years and is the lead for the adult haemophilia multidisciplinary team. Her major research interests include personalised management, musculoskeletal outcomes, and lab assays for monitoring of replacement therapy. She has been an investigator on multiple clinical trials of novel and extended half-life products in severe haemophilia.

Dr Paddy Morgan

Consultant Anaesthetist, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK

Paddy is a Consultant Anaesthetist, North Bristol NHS Trust and specialises in anaesthesia for orthopaedic trauma, spinal surgery and neurosurgery. He also acts as a medical officer for the Extreme Environments Lab at the University of Portsmouth, supervising high risk experiments, reviewing research protocols, as well as conducting his own research. The lab specialises in studying the physiology and performance of the human body in extreme environments.

Professor Peter Robbins

Hypoxia & lung physiology, University of Oxford, UK

Peter’s research career has been focussed on understanding integrated systems-level responses – particularly cardiorespiratory and metabolic responses – to hypoxia, to exercise and, more recently, to variations in iron status. He has recently been working on methods for airway molecular flow sensing using laser absorption spectroscopy – a technique developed in conjunction with physical chemists at Oxford. Peter is now applying this technique as a non-invasive means to study aspects of inhomogeneity in the lung in both health and disease.

Professor Hugh Montgomery

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at UCL and the Director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance

Hugh is a Professor of Intensive Care at UCL, where he directed the Institute for Human Health and Performance. Hugh's interest has been in the use of environmental stressors in the exploration of human (patho)physiology – often using a genetic approach. He was the first to discover a 'gene for human fitness'. He has published over 450 scientific articles. Hugh also has a strong interest in environmental impacts on health, and in climate change in particular. 

Dr Kim Barrett

University of California, San Diego, USA

Kim is a research physiologist, specialising in digestive disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease. She currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Medicine and was formerly Dean of the Graduate Division at UCSD. She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physiology and a Past-President of the American Physiological Society.

Her research focuses on the transport and barrier properties of the gastrointestinal epithelium and how these are deranged in the setting of various disease processes. Her work is relevant to the understanding of diarrheal diseases, particularly those caused by infectious agents such as Salmonella, and also to the mechanism of action of probiotics.

Professor Charlotte Bolton

University of Nottingham, UK

Charlotte’s research focuses on chronic respiratory disease, mainly COPD, with a focus on extrapulmonary manifestations and the role of pulmonary rehabilitation/ exercise. She is currently researching the persisting symptoms of patients recovering from COVID-19, including mechanistic studies and symptom burden.

Charlotte is a co-investigator on the BLF Early COPD cohort (BE-COPD) and previously of several large consortia including MRC/ABPI COPD MAP and Technology Strategy Board "ERICA".

Professor Paul Greenhaff

University of Nottingham, UK

Paul is deputy director of the Medical Research Council (MRC)-Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, and an active member of the Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis Research Versus Arthritis. Paul is also the metabolism stand lead for the Musculoskeletal Disease theme of the Nottingham NIHR BRC, and a board member of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine-East Midlands.

Paul's research interests are centred on the loss of muscle mass and the dysregulation of muscle metabolism in ageing, immobilisation, acute trauma and inflammation and chronic disease, and strategies (including exercise, nutrition and pharmacological interventions) to offset these negative and pathophysiological effects.

Paul McLoughlin

Pulmonary endothelial physiology, University College Dublin, Ireland

Paul is a Professor of Physiology at University College Dublin, Ireland. Paul’s research group is focused on the exploration and understanding of key mechanisms in the development and progression of lung diseases. These diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, cystic fibrosis, adult respiratory distress syndrome and occupational lung diseases and are amongst the most common (and increasing) causes of death and disability worldwide.