Dr Patrick Murphy

Consultant Respiratory Physician/ Reader in Respiratory Medicine Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust & King’s College London

Consultant Respiratory Physician, Lane Fox Unit, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London
Reader in Respiratory Medicine, Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King’s College London
Dr Murphy was appointed a consultant at the Lane Fox Respiratory Unit, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in 2014 and was recently appointed clinical lead for the service in 2020. The Lane Fox Unit is an internationally recognised centre for weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation and management of home mechanical ventilation. He completed a PhD studying respiratory physiology in acute and chronic respiratory failure secondary to COPD and obesity and was appointed a reader in respiratory medicine at King’s College London in 2019. He has presented primary research data at international conferences and has been awarded travel grants by both the European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society. His research interests involve respiratory physiology and respiratory support in acute and chronic respiratory failure which has led to publications of physiological and clinical trial data in leading respiratory and general medicine journals. He has contributed to both national and international guidelines in the field of management of respiratory complications of sickle cell and obesity related respiratory failure.