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Professor Andrew Bush
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National Heart and Lung Institute
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Professor Andrew Bush
Andrew Bush is Professor of Paediatric Respirology, Imperial College, Academic Director of Paediatrics at the National Heart and Lung Institute, and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
When it became clear that he had failed to inherit a single one of his father's musical talents, Professor Bush went into medicine as a more promising career. He trained at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and University College Hospital, London. He did his house jobs at Stafford General Infirmary (where he caused a scandal by cohabiting with his own wife) and University College Hospital, London. After SHO and Registrar posts in adult medicine, he obtained the MD degree in The Department of Clinical Physiology, as a British Heart Foundation Junior Fellow supervised by Professor David Denison, in the field of pulmonary circulatory physiology.
The research program became more and more paediatric, with increasing research interests in the circulatory physiology in the context of congenital heart disease, under the supervision of Dr Elliott Shinebourne, and so he then went into paediatrics, training initially at University College Hospital and Hillingdon Hospital and then training in paediatric respiratory medicine with Professor John Warner at the Brompton Hospital, and Professor Mike Silverman at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He was appointed Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Respirology in January 1991, and was made Professor at Imperial College in 2002.
His research interests include the invasive and non-invasive measurement of airway inflammation in children, in particular the use of endobronchial biopsy in the management of severe asthma, and also respiratory mass spectrometry. He has raised more than £5 million in peer review grants and donations. He has supervised 15 MD and PhD degrees, authored more than 270 papers in peer review journals, and written more than 50 chapters in books and monographs. He recently co-edited the 7th Edition of Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children, and ‘Cystic Fibrosis in the 21st Century', a Monograph in the series ‘Progress in Respiratory Research'. He is Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (the highest impact factor respiratory journal, the only Deputy Editor from outside North America), and Head of the Paediatric Assembly of the European Respiratory Society. He has served as Associate Editor for Europe for Paediatric Pulmonology. He has been Visiting Professor at Melbourne Childrens' Hospital, at Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA, and Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, where he delivered the annual George Polgar. He was 2007 Charles West Lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians.
When not plying his trade in Paediatrics, Professor Bush enjoys family life with his wife (with whom he still cohabits, scandal or not) and his four children, none of whom show any signs of following their father into medicine. He enjoys reading (especially when he is supposed to be being sociable), ball games (in particular on the rare occasions when England actually win something), and listening to music (after being given an ASBO for his last attempts at performance). He shows no signs of fulfilling any domestic responsibilities or of growing old at all gracefully.
