International speaker
Professor Bush is an expert in all aspects of respiratory disease in children and has given more than 100 presentations to academic meetings throughout the world.
His research interests include paediatric respiratory medicine; invasive and non-invasive assessment of airway inflammation in asthma and cystic fibrosis and clinical respiratory physiology.
Teaching
Professor Bush has taught for the European School of Respiratory Medicine and is a recognised trainer for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has also been a tutor in paediatrics at the Royal College of Physicians and a recognised teacher in paediatric respiratory medicine at the University of London.
Expert advisor
As well as advising a number of international clinical care groups on different aspects of respiratory disease in children, Professor Bush is head of the Paediatric Assembly of the European Respiratory Society. He is also a member of the Medical Research Council College of Experts and sits on the Research Committee of the British Lung Foundation.
He has been Visiting Professor at Melbourne Childrens' Hospital, at Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA, and Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, where he delivered the annual George Polgar. He was 2007 Charles West Lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians.
Editor
Professor Bush is deputy editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and was formerly the European editor of Pediatric Pulmonology. He sits on the editorial board or is associate editor for a number of other prestigious medical journals including the Journal of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Update in Respiratory Technology and Applied Technology, Chest, the Jornal de Pediatria, and The Open Pediatric Medicine Journal.
Published work
Raising funds
Professor Bush has raised more than £5 million for research in his specialist areas via peer review grants and donations.
