Dr Richard Hewitt

Dr Richard Hewitt is an experienced consultant respiratory physician who sees private patients at Royal Brompton Hospital and Welbeck London.

Dr Hewitt qualified with distinctions at Imperial College London in 2011 and achieved first-class honours in an intercalated BSc in respiratory sciences. He undertook postgraduate general medical training in London attaining MRCP(UK) in 2014. He trained in respiratory medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital.

Dr Hewitt gained extensive research experience through NIHR academic clinical fellowship and clinical lectureship awards and holds a postgraduate certificate in genomics medicine. In 2017 he was awarded a prestigious Imperial College Clinician-Investigator Scholarship and went on to complete a PhD in the National Heart and Lung Institute.

His doctoral research focused on the role of airway epithelial cells and immune cells in the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). He is now an adjunct senior lecturer at King’s College London where he is investigating airway immune changes in early fibrosing lung disease.

Dr. Hewitt has subspecialty expertise in interstitial lung diseases including:

• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• Connective tissue disease - associated ILD
• Sarcoidosis

He is also experienced in managing general respiratory conditions including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), respiratory infections and bronchiectasis. In his practice he performs and supervises bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) as part of the diagnostic work-up for interstitial lung disease.

In addition to his clinical work, he provides clinical and educational supervision to respiratory specialist trainees and internal medicine trainees at Royal Brompton Hospital.