Dr Stuart Packham

Dr Stuart Packham has been a Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine since 1999. He qualified from the University of Aberdeen and undertook his postgraduate training in a number of specialist centres including in Aberdeen, Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and Llandough Hospital, Cardiff. In addition he was appointed as a Research Registrar at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA where he studied ventilation in patients with COPD, Congenital Hypoventilation syndrome and patients pre and post lung transplantation. He was previously a Consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading before returning to Wales and currently works at Swansea Bay University Health Board.

Dr Packham has a busy practice in Respiratory Medicine treating patients with a variety of chest conditions including Persistent Cough, Breathlessness, Recurrent Chest Infections, Asthma and Allergy, Sleep Apnoea, Bronchiectasis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema).

Dr Packham was a member of the British Thoracic Society group that wrote international guidelines on the investigation and treatment of Chronic Cough, a common and distressing disorder. He has published widely and presented papers at international and national meetings on various aspects of respiratory disease.