Prof Mohammed Munavvar MD DNB FRCP (Lon) FRCP (Edin) has been a Consultant Chest Physician/ Interventional Pulmonologist at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, Preston, UK for over 22 years. He is Chair of Interventional Pulmonology for European Respiratory Society (2021-2024), Immediate Past President of the European Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, Chair of the Endorsement Committee of the World Association of Bronchology, Editorial Board Member, Journal of Bronchology, Regional Speciality Adviser for Royal College of Physicians, London and Honorary Clinical Professor at University of Central Lancashire. He was President of British Thoracic Society (2020), and Regional Adviser, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh for 7 years.
He has been the founder/organiser of the Preston Basic Bronchoscopy course and BTS Interventional Bronchoscopy/Thoracoscopy course for more than 15 years, and The Semirigid Thoracoscopy courses at Preston. He has been an active faculty member at the ERS and EABIP Interventional Bronchoscopy courses at Athens/ Ancona/ Lille/ Bristol/ Oxford and the Interventional Pulmonology Expert Training Programs in Hamburg and Slovenia.
He chaired the BTS Basic Bronchoscopy Guideline Development Committee, has been a council member of the British Thoracic Society, member of the BTS Education and Training Committee for two terms, Specialist Adviser to NICE Interventional Procedures Committee, Director of Research and Innovation, Training Programme Director for Respiratory Medicine and a member of the BTS Specialist Advisory Group for Interventional Pulmonology. He is actively involved in the evaluation of innovative techniques/ tools in Thoracoscopy/ Bronchoscopy, and has a special interest in the Research and Management of Lung Cancer/ Pleural Pathologies/Emphysema/TB and most recently, COVID.
Selected publications from PubMed
Medical thoracoscopy with talc poudrage and indwelling pleural catheter insertion versus medical thoracoscopy with talc poudrage alone for patients with symptomatic malignant pleural effusion (TACTIC): a randomised, controlled phase 3 trial.
Dipper A, Sundaralingam A, Hedley E, Gudur S, Mills J, Sowden S, Corcoran JP, Daneshvar C, Craig C, Moore AJ, Milne A, Clive A, Bhatnagar R, Roberts ME, Nagarajan T, Kutubudin F, Wassal H, Aboushehata M, Iftikhar S, Haris M, Abraham M, Sudhir R, Panchal RK, de Fonseka D, Bedawi EO, Iqbal B, Addala D, Wrightson J, Menzies D, Ratushnyak S, Luengo-Fernandez R, Miller RF, White P, Munavvar M, Rahman NM, Maskell N
Lancet Respir Med. 2026 Apr;14(4):341-349 doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(25)00409-6.
ERS Congress 2025: highlights from the Clinical Techniques, Imaging and Endoscopy Assembly.
Marchi G, Chaabouni M, Bakiri K, Munavvar M, Juul AD
ERJ Open Res. 2026 Jan;12(1) pii: 01564-2025. doi: 10.1183/23120541.01564-2025.
Thoracic Spinal Anesthesia With Erector Spinae Plane Block Versus Conscious Sedation for Medical Thoracoscopy: A Comparative Pilot Study.
Baburao A, Suresh P, P S, Gs K, K T, Mathew AM, Munavvar M
Cureus. 2026 Jan;18(1):e101416 doi: 10.7759/cureus.101416.
Current Trends in Treating Malignant Pleural Effusion: Evidence, Guidelines, and Best Practice Recommendations.
Munavvar M, Bodtger U, Carus A, Cordovilla R, Naik S, Salud A, Porcel JM
JCO Oncol Pract. 2025 Jun;21(6):759-765 doi: 10.1200/OP.24.00387.
Development and Validation of two Bronchoscopy Knowledge Assessments.
Gerretsen ECF, Popeijus HE, Annema JT, Clementsen PF, Corbetta L, Gompelmann D, van der Heijden EHFM, Hiddinga BI, van Mook WNKA, Munavvar M, Smeenk FWJM, Groenier M
Respiration. 2025;104(10):769-777 doi: 10.1159/000546873.
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