Dr Saifudin Khalid is working as a Consultant in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine at the East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He qualified as a doctor in 2000 and has been working in the NHS since 2001. He completed his specialist training in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine in the North West and has been on the GMC specialist register since 2013.

He has more than 10 years’ experience working as a Consultant. His duties include looking after patients admitted with different respiratory and medical conditions to hospital, providing outpatient care, teaching medical students and doctors in training. He also has regular procedure lists for flexible bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound. He has an honorary contract as Senior Lecturer with UCLan School of Medicine and Lancaster University.

Dr Khalid looks after patients with respiratory conditions including asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease and lung cancer. In addition he has subspecialty interest in chronic cough. He completed his PhD at the University of Manchester in 2012, studying chronic cough during which he carried out research into the mechanisms of cough and potential treatments for this condition. He has set up a clinic dedicated to treatment of this condition.

Dr Khalid has roles of Research Lead and Clinical Governance Lead for respiratory medicine in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. He helps to set up and lead on research studies in respiratory medicine, alongside his clinical duties.

He has several peer-reviewed scientific papers on chronic cough and COPD, and has been a co-author for the British Thoracic Society guidelines on flexible bronchoscopy. He has presented his research findings on many national and international scientific meetings. 

• Chronic cough 
• Asthma 
• COPD 
• Lung cancer
• Bronchiectasis
• Sarcoidosis

• Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh