Seminar Announcement
Established in February 2024, our monthly series of scientific seminars with dis-tinguished guest speakers from around the world. In our fifth seminar for the aca-demic year 2024-2025 we are delighted to host Prof. Najib M. Rahman from Oxford, UK.
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 at 15:00 Greece time
Translational in pleural infection -from bench to bedside
Prof. Najib M Rahman, BM BCh MA (oxon) MSc, DPhil, FRCP, FERS
Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Director, Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, University of Oxford
Consultant Pleural Physician, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
National Specialist Lead for Respiratory, NIHR RDN
NIHR Senior Investigator
The seminar will be 45 minutes followed by 15 minutes allocated to discussion. To participate in the seminar, you can use the Zoom Meeting link:
https://zoom.us/j/94635762108?pwd=E9ksBiacFPD6zUh6xZqDqwkfqErP18.1
Meeting ID: 946 3576 2108
Passcode: 598500
The speaker: Professor Najib Rahman Directs the Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit and works clinically as a pleural specialist. Having qualified in Oxford he underwent the medical SHO rotation at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, and re-joined Oxford as a Specialist Registrar in 2003. He was appointed Director of the Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit and Consultant Lead for Pleural Disease in Oxford in 2011. He was appointed as Professor of Respiratory Medicine in 2018, and runs randomised and observational studies in pleural infection, pneumothorax and malignant pleural effusion as well as translational research. He is trained in Thoracoscopy, Thoracic Ultrasound and Clinical Trials methodology, and has published over 300 papers with over 26,900 citations and an H-index of 73. He is co-chair of the BTS Pleural Guidelines 2023, Chair of the BTS Pleural Interven-tion Committee 2023, Chair of multiple ERS guidelines on pleural disease, Senior NIHR Investigator and National Speciality Lead for Respiratory Research for the NIHR Research Delivery Network. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physi-cians (FRCP) in UK and a Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (FERS). In the ERS where he has taken up several leadership roles and currently serves as the Chair of the ERS Assembly of Thoracic Oncology.