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Dr Nazia Chaudhuri is a respiratory physician with a specialist interest in interstitial lung disease (ILD) service. She has been the lead of the ILD service at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), United Kingdom for over 9 years and has recently re located to Northern Ireland, where she aims to take up an academic post at the University of Ulster and Altnagelvin hospital. She is a senior clinicl lecturer at the University of Ulster as the academic medicine lead for the undergraduate medical school. She graduated from the University of Leeds with an honours degree in medicine and a BSc honours in genetics. She performed a PhD and published her work looking at the cellular interactions and signalling in response to infection and air pollution. She has publications and reviews related to her PhD work and continued with her research interests as an NIHR Clinical lecturer. As an ILD specialist, Dr Chaudhuri has developed the local ILD service by enhancing the delivery of care by establishing day case model to reduce waiting times, creating a clinical database and ensuring a presence on the internet by developing a website, twitter and Facebook page. She has been instrumental in setting up and delivering a regional North West and Northern ILD network and is also setting up a Northern Ireland regional ILD network. Dr Chaudhuri has published her experience in prescribing antifibrotics and delivering MDT care and has presented many abstracts pertaining to IPF, antifibrotics and the importance of a multi-disciplinary team approach at all major respiratory conferences. She is chair of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) interstitial and rare lung disease specialist advisory group and a member of the BTS Research and Scientific committee. She was chair of the North West Thoracic Society from 2018-2022. She is also on the European Respiratory Society ILD long range planning committee and is a medical adviser for the British Lung Foundation. Dr Chaudhuri is actively involved in Undergraduate medical education and postgraduate training