--

Dr Anand Shah is a consultant respiratory physician based at the Royal Brompton Hospital. He has expertise in infection, particularly fungal lung infection including the following:

• Fungal lung infection (including aspergillosis)
• Host defence abnormalities
• Bronchiectasis
• Cystic fibrosis
• Primary ciliary dyskinesia
• Primary or secondary immunodeficiency
• Non-tuberculous mycobacteria.

Dr Shah qualified with his medical degree from Imperial College London before training in respiratory medicine. He spent time within the lung transplant unit at Harefield Hospital as well as the Host Defence Unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital where he developed an interest in fungal lung infection. In 2011, he was awarded an MRC clinical research training Fellowship which enabled him to investigate susceptibility to fungal infection in solid organ transplantation at Imperial College London. His work earned him a PhD and a number of publications. He then became a consultant at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust in 2016.

Dr Shah continues to be involved in research, and he focuses particularly on how to improve the outcome in fungal lung disease. He is also an honorary clinical senior lecturer at Imperial College London.

During his career, he has achieved a number of awards including the MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnership award (2019), the Cystic Fibrosis Mentored Research Innovation Award (2018), and the Gilead UK Fellowship in Invasive Fungal Infection (2017).