BTS Medal Winner 2022

The BTS Medal is awarded annually to a distinguished person who has greatly contributed to respiratory medicine or science. This prestigious award aims to acknowledge the recipient's leadership in and contribution to clinical and/or scientific work which has resulted in benefit to patients and the inspiration of peers.

The BTS Medal for 2022 is awarded to Professor Andrew Bush.

Professor Andrew (Andy) Bush is Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Respirology at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London, and Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital. He was appointed Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Respirology in January 1991 and was made Professor at Imperial College in 2002.

Andy's research interests include respiratory mass spectrometry, respiratory physiology, and airway inflammation. He is Principal Investigator of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Asthma Research, Principal Investigator (and the only one of the four founders of the collaboration active in the area) in the London Cystic Fibrosis Collaborative (LCFC), and Principal Investigator in the childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD-EU) collaboration.

Andy was Head of the Paediatric Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (2005-2008) and is currently ERS Clinical Guidelines Director. In 2016 he was elected Chair of the ERS Publications Committee, and on the ERS Executive and Management Committees (2017-2020).

In addition to this, Andy has raised more than £80 million in peer review grants and donations. He has supervised 27 MD, 20 PhD, and 6 MSc theses, trained 68 Consultant Paediatricians, authored more than 600 papers in peer review journals, been on the editorial board or associate editor for twenty journals including BMJ and BMJOpen, written more than 100 chapters in books and monographs, and co-authored 10 books.

Professor Bush has been a member of the BTS since its foundation. He has served on the BTS Research Committee representing the British Paediatric Respiratory Society and is currently on the BTS Global Health Committee. He was co-Editor in chief of Thorax for five years (2005-10).

On winning the BTS Medal for 2022, Andy said:

“I am deeply moved and honoured to join such greats as Sir Richard Doll and Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick as a recipient of this prestigious medal. It is a special privilege to be the first paediatrician to be receive the award, and I am so grateful to the BTS for selecting me.”