Dr Samantha Walker
Director of Research and Innovation - Asthma + Lung UK
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Samantha is director of research and innovation at Asthma + Lung UK.
She oversees the research projects the charity invests in, ensuring the needs of people with lung conditions are at the heart of all research and bringing together funders to invest in lung research.
Samantha is available for interviews on a wide range of topics including respiratory research, air pollution, allergies, COPD and asthma care and management.
Samantha holds a PhD, at Imperial College in London in 2000, in the mechanisms of allergy and asthma and has worked in the field for over 25 years.
Her work on allergies and asthma has been published in a range of research journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal and Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
Before working at Asthma + Lung UK, Samantha held a range of roles including designing and delivering clinical research projects and programmes, designing respiratory educational programmes through the Open University, diagnosing and treating patients in allergy, asthma and severe asthma clinics in primary and secondary care, influencing health policy and teaching and lecturing healthcare professionals.
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