Dr Ian Balfour-Lynn specialises in all aspects of paediatric respiratory medicine, including severe asthma, chronic cough, cystic fibrosis, recurrent chest infections and severe infant wheezing. He has been a paediatric respiratory specialist for nearly 30 years and a consultant for 23 years, Dr Balfour-Lynn trained in general paediatrics at Westminster Children’s Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton, Northwick Park Hospital and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. The majority of his specialist respiratory training was carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, where he worked in a number of departments including respiratory medicine, intensive care, infection and immunology and heart-lung transplantation. Dr Balfour-Lynn also spent two years in full-time research for his MD thesis, Host Defence Factors in Wheezy Infants with Respiratory Infections, University of London 1994. He is on the NHS specialist register for paediatrics and is fully accredited in paediatrics with a special interest in respiratory disease.