Dr Amit Patel, Consultant Respiratory Physician
Dr Amit Patel
Consultant Respiratory Physician
Dr Amit Patel MBBS MRCP AHEA MD FRCP
Consultant Respiratory Physician
Dr Amit Patel
Consultant Respiratory Physician MBBS MRCP AHEA MD FRCP
Areas of expertise
- Cough
- Sarcoidosis
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Asthma
- Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)
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About Dr Amit Patel
GMC number: 6029386
Year qualified: 2001
Place of primary qualification: University of London
Dr Amit Patel works as a full-time Consultant Respiratory Physician at King’s College Hospital in London where he specialises in all aspects of respiratory medicine. This includes the investigation and management of cough, COPD, asthma, pneumonia, lung cancer, pleural disease, respiratory failure, sleep apnoea, sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis and breathlessness of unknown cause. He was previously a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Whittington Health.
Dr Patel graduated from King’s College London in 2001. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 2005. He undertook postgraduate training in Respiratory and General (Internal) Medicine in London at some of the country’s leading hospitals including King’s College Hospital, St Thomas’s Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital. During his higher specialist training he went on to study for a MD in the Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology within King’s College London.
Dr Patel’s research interest is in developing novel techniques in the assessment of interstitial lung diseases and sarcoidosis. He had also collaborated in research on the management of cough. His work is published in high-impact factor international journals and he is a collaborator on projects both nationally and internationally. His work has been presented at major symposia in North America, Europe and the UK. Dr Patel also acts as a peer reviewer of other researcher’s work for major scientific journals. He lectures on areas of respiratory medicine and is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and has postgraduate qualifications in education.
Areas of expertise
- Asthma
- Breathing problems
- Breathlessness
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis
- Bronchoscopy
- Chest infection
- Chest pain
- Chronic bronchitis
- Chronic cough
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Cough
- Cystic fibrosis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung biopsy
- Lung cancer
- Lung diseases
- Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)
- Pleural effusion
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary emphysema
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary nodule
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Respiratory diseases
- Respiratory failure
- Respiratory infection
- Sarcoidosis
- Smoking cessation (quitting)
- Spirometry
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Articles by Dr Amit Patel
The minimal important difference of the King's Brief Interstitial Lung Disease Questionnaire (K-BILD) and forced vital capacity in interstitial lung disease
Improvement in health status following cough-suppression physiotherapy for patients with chronic cough
Translation and validation of the King's Brief Interstitial Lung Disease (K-BILD) questionnaire in French, Italian, Swedish, and Dutch
Effect of continuous positive airway pressure on maximal exercise capacity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea
The development and validation of the King's Sarcoidosis Questionnaire for the assessment of health status
Rasch analysis and impact factor methods both yield valid and comparable measures of health status in interstitial lung disease
The development and validation of the King's Brief Interstitial Lung Disease (K-BILD) health status questionnaire