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Omar Usmani

Job Title Professor of Respiratory Medicine & Consultant Physician, National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI),Imperial College London
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Omar Usmani MB BS, PhD, FHEA, FRCP, FERS, is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London & Consultant Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital (RBH) and St Mary’s Hospital London. He is Clinical Director of ICRRU (Imperial College Respiratory Research Unit).

He is an International Authority on Aerosol Science and Inhalation Medicine whose research has fundamentally contributed to the understanding of therapeutic aerosol deposition and clinical effectiveness in inhaled drug delivery to the lungs.

Dr Usmani was appointed Co-Deputy Director of Imperial’s MBBS Phase 1 programme in 2021, is the Medicine Module Lead (Phase 1c) and Clinical Module Lead of CSI (Clinical Scientific Integration), a flagship Module in Imperial’s new MBBS curriculum.