Meet the interstitial lung disease team

Our interstitial lung disease service is managed by a team of respiratory consultants.

Respiratory consultants

Dr Raminder Aul
Dr Robina Coker
Dr Arnab Datta
Dr Katie Ward
Dr Melissa Wickremasinghe

ILD radiologists

Dr Sue Copley
Dr Maureen Quigley
Dr Sarah Sheard 

Respiratory ILD pharmacist

Radha Patel
Zaneeta Nagji

Respiratory ILD nurse specialist

Geeta Vekaria

Multidisciplinary team coordinator

Cherie February

Cherie is responsible for managing the multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings so that the team can achieve the national requirements for the ILD service. This includes collecting, storing and submitting the required data for both national and local divisions. Cherie also assists with management of the electronic referral system (ERS), to make sure that all referrals are vetted and booked within the national referral-to-treatment (RTT) time frame. 
Cherie works closely with the lead service clinician in developing ways to improve the patient’s experience, including assisting with expanding the Care Information Exchange (CIE) which offers patients the option to access their records and results as well as to have direct communication with the service through the online message centre and video conference calls. 

Senior respiratory physiologists

Sophia Martin
Hannah Tighe

Cardiac sarcoid clinic

Consultants 

Dr Graham Cole
Dr Amanda Varnava
Dr Melissa Wickremasinghe

Clinical nurse specialist 

Sian Jones

Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (PLCH) clinic

Consultants

Dr Melissa Wickremasinghe