Asif Azam

Passionate Respiratory and General Medicine Physician completed higher specialty training May 2022. I am currently working as Consultant Respiratory Physician at Russells Hall Hospital Dudley since June 2022. I have been consistently updating my professional knowledge and competence during the course of my training to be able to provide optimum patient care. I have developed the skills to mentor the junior doctors to provide efficient healthcare and have the ability to lead the team with high performance. During my higher speciality training I have taken 1 year out of programme and completed Interventional Pulmonology fellowship to gained expertise in pleural interventions.

I am a motivated and energetic individual who is willing to accept any challenging job which would bring the best out of me. I want to work and achieve as a doctor, as a teacher, as a carer and above all as a student; Doctor for my patients, teacher for my juniors, carer for patients and their relatives and student for my own drive to continue further professional development. I have excellent communication, organisation and multi-tasking skills. I work well both independently and as a contributing member of a team.

European Respiratory Society

British Thoracic Society

Midland Thoracic Society

Medical Defence Union

Advanced Interventional Bronchoscopy Royal Brompton Hospital London Jan 2020

BTS Radiology course Sep 2019

Train the Trainers Bristol Sep 2019

North Midlands Pleural Diseases Course Jan 2018

Basic Bronchoscopy Course Royal Preston Hospital Mar 2017

Thoracic Ultrasound Course London Oct 2016

Acute Simulated Core Medical Emergencies Course Hull Jan 2015

IMPACT Course City Hospital Birmingham Dec 2013

Conferences Attended

BTS winter meeting Feb 2021

ERS VIRTUAL CONGRESS 2020

ERS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2019 Madrid Spain

Difficult Lung Diseases Meeting Sheffield Oct 2018

BTS Summer Meeting Manchester June 2018

Manchester Interstitial Lung Diseases Meeting Oct 2017

BTS Summer Meeting Birmingham June 2017

RCP Medicine Update Birmingham Oct 2016

2nd Manchester Medicine Update Mar 2014

Utility of thoracic computed tomography to predict need for early surgery and recurrence after first episode of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (10.7861/clinmed.2021-0074 ) Clinical Medicine 2022 Vol 22, No 1: 71–4

Streamlining diagnostic work-up of pulmonary embolism: Comparing YEARS algorithm with original and simplified Well’s scores

ERS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2019

Utility of computed tomography (CT) to predict need for early surgery and recurrence after first episode of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) ERS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2019

Comparing patient outcomes during the first and second COVID-19 waves MTS Winter Meeting 2021

1.Senior Academy Tutor (University of Birmingham) 

Organised departmental teaching for Junior Doctors at Russells Hall Hospital 2021

2.Medical skills course faculty Glan Clwyd Hospital North Wales 2019

3.Teaching fellow North Wales Clinical School 2019-2020

4.Teach The Teacher Course 2019

5.MRCP PACES exam facilitator Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust 2017

6.RCP Associate Tutor ,Scunthorpe General Hospital 2015

7.Organised and delivered MRCP PACES teaching sessions for Core Medical Trainees at Scunthorpe General Hospital 2015

8. Presentations on Lung cancer, COPD, NIV etc.

1. Comparing patient outcomes during the first and second COVID-19 waves

2.Evaluation of documentation of social history in medical clerking

3.Oxygen Prescription Audit

4. Antibiotic Prescription in Acute Admissions

5. Use of intrapleural alteplase & DNASE in infected pleural effusion

6. ABG Documentation

Dr Mazhar Chaudri

Respiratory Medicine Consultant

Russells Hall Hospital

Email ID: Mazhar.Chaudri@.nhs.net

Ph : 01384 456111 ext 1063

Dr Manish Pagaria

Respiratory Medicine Consultant

Russells Hall Hospital

Email ID: manish.pagaria@nhs.net

Ph: 01384 456111 ext 1320