John Hurst is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at UCL. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1997 and was appointed Senior Lecturer then Reader in Respiratory Medicine at UCL, and Honorary Consultant at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in October 2007.
John is COPD Lead for the Royal College of Physicians National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme, Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Monograph, and is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and the European Respiratory Journal. He chairs the Multi-Morbidity Working Group of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD).