Dr Jonathan Fuld

Jonathan Fuld

National Clinical Director for Respiratory Disease, NHS England

Chair of the Adult Specialised Respiratory Clinical Reference Group, NHS England Specialised Commissioning

Principal Investigator, HLRI

PA Name: Vincenza Ruggiero

Biography

Jonathan Fuld is Consultant Respiratory Physician based at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

He has a clinical and research interest in exercise physiology, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and access to services for those with chronic lung disease.

Since April 2023 he has been appointed Interim National Clinical Director for Respiratory Disease and Chair of the Adult Specialised Respiratory Clinical Reference Group, NHS England. Prior to taking up this appointment Jonathan was Clinical Director for Infection and Inflammation at Cambridge University Hospitals and East of England lead for the Respiratory Clinical Network.

Research Approach:

Jonathan is an applied clinical health researcher. His research focuses on understanding the lived experience of people who have chronic lung disease and how this impacts their abilities to gain benefits from health care services and treatments. His research approach is the use of mixed methods, integrating insights from quantitative and qualitative data to enrich our understanding of patients’ lives and how health care services can meet their needs. He is an actively involved in COVID and COPD related clinical trials. He has an active research interest in exercise physiology and resuscitation decision making.

Current projects:

Co-design and evaluation of an intervention to increase UPTake of pUlmonary RehabilitatioN for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the UPTURN study. NIHR Programme Grant.

Selected publications

Jha A, Chen F, Mann S, Shah R, Abu-Youssef R, Pavey H, Lin-Jia-Qi H, Cara J, Cunningham D, Fitzpatrick K, Goh C, Ma R, Mookerjee S, Nageshwaran V, Old T, Oxley C, Jordon L, Selvan, M, Wood A, Ying A, Zhang C, Wozniak D, Goodhart I, Early F, Fisk M, Fuld J. Physiological effects and subjective tolerability of prone positioning in COVID-19 and healthy hypoxic challenge. ERJ Open Research 2021; DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00524-2021
Ionescu MF, Mani-Babu S, Degani-Costa LH, Johnson M, Paramasivan C, Sylvester K, Fuld J. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in the Assessment of Dysfunctional Breathing. Front Physiol. 2021 Jan 27;11:620955.
Early F, Wilson PM, Deaton C, Wellwood I, Haque HW, Fox SE, Yousaf A, Meysner OD, Ward JR, Singh SJ, Fuld JP. Pulmonary rehabilitation referral and uptake from primary care for people living with COPD: a mixed-methods study. ERJ Open Res. 2020 Feb 17;6(1):00219-2019.
Early F, Lettis M, Winders SJ, Fuld J. What matters to people with COPD: outputs from Working Together for Change. NPJ Prim Care Respir Med. 2019 Apr 12;29(1):11.
Fritz Z, Malyon A , Frankau J, Parker R, Cohn S, Laroche C, Palmer C, Fuld J. The Universal Form of Treatment Options (UFTO) as an Alternative to Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) Orders: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Effects on Clinical Practice and Patient Care. PLOS ONE. 2013 Sep 4;8(9):e70977.

Research collaborators

Frances Early

Marie Fisk

Catherine Moffatt

Viviana Orena-Chavez

Affiliations

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge