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Dr. David Evans is a Respiratory Medicine Consultant. His special interests include asthma, COPD, infection (tuberculosis and bronchiectasis) and occupational/environmental lung diseases, and he also manages interstitial lung disease, thromboembolic disease/pulmonary hypertension and lung cancer. He carries out approximately 100 bronchoscopies each year.

Dr. Evans runs clinics at Harefield Hospital and Hemel Hempstead Hospital with respect to the investigation and treatment of sleep disordered breathing (obstructive sleep apnoea).

Dr. Evans qualified at St Mary's Hospital Medical School (London University) in 1987 (MB BS). His clinical training rotated through London teaching hospitals whereupon he gained the MRCP diploma from the Royal College of Physicians. His research was undertaken at the Royal Brompton Hospital/National Heart and Lung institute under the mentorship of Professor Peter Barnes.

In 1998 Dr. Evans was awarded a South West Thames Research Bursary which facilitated his research with the Cochrane Collaboration (St Georges Hospital). He continues to be active in the field of research and has continued to publish review articles on areas within respiratory medicine ever since. Thereafter he was appointed Senior Registrar in respiratory medicine at the Royal Brompton and St George's Hospitals, London. Following a four year senior registrar training he commenced my first consultant post at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (1999). In 2001 he moved to Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation NHS Trust/West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust to commence his current post (consultant physician/honorary senior lecturer respiratory medicine) in 2001.

Dr. Evans is the clinical lead for respiratory medicine in Hertfordshire which is provided by West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Central London Health Care NHS Trust. He is also an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians.

In addition to his other work, Dr. Evans is a passionate educator and is an honorary senior lecturer in respiratory medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute. He was also a co-supervisor for a PhD student following a substantial grant from the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council.