Liam Heaney

Professor Liam Heaney is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Queens University Belfast, N Ireland, who trained in Northern Ireland and the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.

He is Director of the Northern Ireland Regional Difficult Asthma Service which delivers multi-disciplinary systematic assessment with a particular interest in the identification and management of poor adherence to treatment.

He has chaired the British Thoracic Society Specialist Advisory Group for Asthma, the Evidence Review Group for Difficult Asthma for the British Thoracic Society / Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline on Asthma Management and has been a member of the National Steering Committee for the UK Asthma Guidelines.

He co‑ordinates the UK Severe Asthma Registry and is UK lead and Member of the Steering Committees for the European Respiratory Society Clinical Research Collaboration, Severe Heterogeneous Asthma Research, Patient centred (SHARP) and International Severe Asthma Registry.

He is Academic Lead for the Medical Research Council UK Refractory Stratification Programme (http://www.rasp.org.uk) and was an Invited Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Asthma 2018 (After asthma: redefining airways diseases - The Lancet) and has published extensively and is widely cited on the clinical assessment and management of difficult to control asthma in adults.