Dr Anirban Maitra is a senior Consultant Paediatric Respiratory Physician at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester University Hospitals, the largest single-site tertiary children’s hospital in the UK. He is also the Director of the Cystic Fibrosis unit at the hospital and had been the Clinical Lead in bronchiectasis and primary ciliary dyskinesia treatment. Dr Maitra sees private patients at Alexandra Hospital and Spire Manchester Hospital. Dr Maitra graduated from Calcutta Medical College, Asias second-oldest medical school practicing European Medicine, and has been practicing in the UK since 1997. For the past 17 years, he has been involved in the tertiary management of children with complicated respiratory problems. Dr Maitra completed the National Grid Training in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine from Sheffield Children’s Hospital in 2009 and has been working as a Consultant since. He has worked as a Consultant at University Children’s Hospital in Leicester, and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. He has also worked in tertiary institutions overseas before joining Manchester Children’s Hospital in 2015. Dr Maitra believes that respiratory problems are widely prevalent among children, which makes it the most significant reason for parents to consult a medical professional. He judiciously employs detailed but focused history, lung function testing, baseline allergy, and immune investigations, and appropriate imaging such as Chest X-Ray and High-Resolution CT scan to evaluate his patients and reach a diagnosis. He also undertakes highly specialist flexible bronchoscopic procedures to reach a diagnosis. Alongside his clinical duties, Dr Maitra was employed as a Research Fellow at Bristol Children’s Hospital and has widely published in highly-rated academic journals such as BMJ, Thorax, Clinical, and Experimental Allergy. He is extensively involved in research and teaching undergraduate students, postgraduate students, junior doctors, and allied healthcare professionals, and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences.