Biography

Dr Louise Fleming completed her undergraduate degree in medicine at the University of Manchester before moving to London for clinical training in paediatrics, which included an 18-month fellowship placement in The Gambia.

She continued her post-graduate research at Royal Brompton Hospital and the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. This research was funded by the British Lung Foundation under the supervision of Professor Andrew Bush and Dr Nicola Wilson. She carried out a randomised controlled trial investigating the use of inflammatory markers to guide management in children with severe asthma leading to the award of an MD.

Dr Fleming completed her clinical training in the allergy department at St Mary’s Hospital and in 2011, she was appointed honorary consultant at Royal Brompton Hospital and clinical senior lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute. In 2020, she was promoted to reader at the National Heart and Lung Institute. 

In 2023 Dr Fleming took up a full time NHS job at Imperial College Healthcare Trust and Royal Brompton Hospital. She was promoted to Professor of Practice in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College, London in 2024

Areas of expertise

Dr Louise Fleming's special interest includes problematic severe asthma and pre-school wheeze in children. 

Her clinical expertise includes: 

• paediatric respiratory medicine
• problematic severe asthma
• pre-school wheeze
• clinical trials.

Experience

Dr Fleming has developed the difficult asthma protocol at Royal Brompton Hospital. The severe asthma team is a tertiary and quaternary referral service for children with problematic severe asthma. 

She is a strong advocate for children with asthma and improving care to deliver better outcomes. In order to achieve this, she is a member of a number of networks including: NHSE Children and Young People Asthma Oversight Group (chair of the severe asthma workstream); London Asthma Leadership and Implementation Group (LALIG); London Paediatric Severe Asthma Group (Chair); and North West London Paediatric asthma network. 

Dr Fleming is a member of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) Science Committee, Secretary of the Paediatric Asthma and Allergy group of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and Academic representative of the British Paediatric Respiratory Society (BPRS) Executive Committee. She is an Associate Editor (respiratory) for Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Research

Dr Fleming’s research interests include:

• characterising asthma and pre school wheeze
• novel approaches to treatment of asthma and the assessment of treatment response
• harnessing digital technologies to improve asthma management
• child and family factors

Teaching

Dr Fleming has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences including the European Respiratory Society Congress and the American Thoracic Society congress. 

She teaches on the Imperial College London allergy MSc course and is the course lead for the Allergic A module.

Publications

Dr Fleming has published over 100 peer reviewed original research publications.