Robina Coker is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute and Hammersmith Hospital. Dr Coker's clinical and research interests include air travel in lung disease, and interstitial lung disease. Robina has chaired the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Air Travel Working Party since 1999, which produced the first recommendations to be published worldwide on air travel and lung disease in 2002, updated in 2004 and 2011. Robina led the UK Flight Outcomes Study, which remains the largest prospective study worldwide of flight outcomes in passengers with lung disease, recruiting 600 patients from 35 centres between 2003 and 2005. Following a UK-wide benchmarking project on ILD in 2006 and a pilot study in sarcoidosis in 2009, Robina helped establish the BTS Lung Disease Registry Steering Committee in 2011. From 1999-2007 she was Assistant Director of R&D at Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, and from 2007 to 2011 she was Hammersmith Campus Lead for R&D at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. From 2007 Robina was Co-Director of the North West London Comprehensive Local Research Network, and in October 2010 she took over as Lead Clinical Director. She has been Honorary Treasurer for the BTS since December 2010.

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