Martyn R. Partridge is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Patient Centred Care, The National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Previously based on the Charing Cross Campus, in 2010 he moved to Singapore to set up the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine for Imperial and Nanyang Technological University. Starting from scratch he worked with a curriculum team in London and clinical and academic colleagues in Singapore to devise a totally new curriculum and pedagogy for the new school designed to produce graduates equipped for the new challenges of medicine but with a solid scientific basis. The new course includes multiple innovations from methods of selecting medical students, through extensive use of simulation, to the use of team based learning and extensive use of new technology. Much of the early clinical experience at the new School is gained in Community polyclinics. In 2013 as the school moved from developmental phase to an operational phase Professor Partridge returned to the UK and a new role at NHLI, Dovehouse Street (Royal Brompton Campus). Here his focus is on patient centred care and on translational research, from lab to bedside, or more importantly lab to bedside to community, and the integration of healthcare and implementation of research findings into day to day practice remains a priority.

pedagogy, Asthama