Dr Chris Davies is a Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine at Poole Hospital commencing October 2018. Before moving to Poole, he was a Consultant in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading for over 18 years, having qualified at Birmingham University Medical School in 1990 and training in the Oxford region where he completed his postgraduate degree (MD) on Pleural Infection and also research on sleep apnoea and cardiovascular disease. He was a co-author of the BTS Pleural Guidelines published in 2004 and 2010, and the BTS Pulmonary Embolism Guideline published in 2018. He has held a number of senior educational and management roles.