International speaker
Professor Bush is an expert in all aspects of respiratory disease in children and has given more than 200 presentations to academic meetings throughout the world.
His research interests are in the field of paediatric respiratory medicine, especially 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.
In 2011 he was awarded the Imperial College Rector’s medal for Excellence in Research Supervision. He has co-supervised 24 MD, MD(Res) and PhD theses, and more than 50 of his trainees have been appointed to senior posts (more than two thirds in teaching hospitals or tertiary referral centres).
Expert advisor
As well as advising a number of international clinical care groups on different aspects of respiratory disease in children, Professor Bush has served as head of the Paediatric Assembly of the European Respiratory Society. He has also been a member of the Medical Research Council College of Experts and served on the Research Committee of the British Lung Foundation and the Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust.
He has been visiting professor at Melbourne Children’s' Hospital, at Wake Forest, North Carolina and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he delivered the annual George Polgar Lecture. He was 2007 Charles West Lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians. Other visiting professorships include Miami Children’s Hospital and Virginia Commonwealth University and he has been Nancy N Huang Professor at St Christopher's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Editor
Professor Bush is joint editor of Thorax, the second ranked respiratory medicine journal in the world, the first paediatrician to hold this post. He was formerly deputy editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (the only deputy outside North America), associate editor of the European Respiratory Journal and 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
As well as having nearly 350 papers published in peer review journals, Professor Bush has co-edited a number of books including: Growing up with Lung Disease: the Lung in Transition to Adult Life (Monograph); Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children (Elsevier, 7th edition published, 8th edition in press) and Cystic Fibrosis (Hodder Arnold).
Raising funds
With collaborators, Professor Bush has raised more than £40 million for research in his specialist areas via peer review grants and donations.
Awards
He was 2008 Jonxis Medallist, University Hospital of Groningen, Netherlands.
In 2010 the Congres International de Pneumologie Pediatrique awarded Professor Bush the President's Award, for distinguished achievement in pediatric respiratory science and the global care of children with pulmonary diseases. Read more in our news article.
