Dr Tom Wilkinson

Prof Wilkinson is a respiratory specialist with a sub-specialist interest in airways disease - asthma, bronchiectasis and COPD. He runs a large programme of research developing new vaccines to prevent respiratory infections in patients with airways diseases.

He is a specialist consultant in the difficult airways disease clinic and COPD integrated service, and has developed new patient pathways for diagnosis and community based treatment for COPD.

Prof Wilkinson also leads a five year programme of NHS innovation and service improvement in integrated respiratory care across Wessex (NIHR CLAHRC).