Professor Michael Polkey, Interim Director of Research and Care Group Chair for Lung Failure, Royal Brompton Hospital.
With the second longest commute in the NHS, Professor Poley works for 8 weeks per year in the NHS Highland where he provides respiratory services to Lochaber, Skye and Points West.
Professor Michael Polkey Background
Professor Michael Polkey is an academic and continues as a professor of respiratory medicine at Imperial College London.
He specialises in many respiratory conditions: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), respiratory aspects of neurological disease, advanced lung disease, sleep disordered breathing, emphysema, diaphragm disease.
In particular, he specialises in the management of chronic respiratory failure, COPD, weaning patients from invasive mechanical ventilation. He is also an expert in neurological diseases as motor neurone disease (MND) known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
