Biography

Dr Rishi Pabary studied medicine at Imperial College, qualifying in 2002. He went on to specialise in paediatrics, and completed subspecialty training in paediatric respiratory medicine in 2015. 

Before joining the Trust as a consultant in 2017, Dr Pabary worked at St. Mary’s, the Royal London and latterly Great Ormond Street Hospital for three years, where he focused on different areas of paediatric respiratory medicine including sleep and ventilation and lung transplantation. He is on the GMC specialist register for paediatrics and paediatric respiratory medicine.

Dr Pabary’s PhD thesis was on novel methods of diagnosis and treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis. The thesis, supervised by Professor Jane Davies, Professor Andrew Bush and Professor Eric Alton, was done at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London. Dr Pabary’s dissertation, for an MSc in Advanced Paediatrics undertaken at the Institute of Child Health (UCL), focused on the use of nasal potential difference investigations in cystic fibrosis.

Areas of expertise

Dr Pabary’s areas of expertise include:

• General paediatric respiratory medicine
• Cystic fibrosis
• Sleep and non-invasive ventilation
• Bronchoscopy
• Interstitial lung disease

Dr Pabary also provides outreach services to a number of hospitals that are affiliated to the Trust. 

Research interests          

Dr Pabary has been involved in numerous clinical studies in different areas of paediatric respiratory medicine, including:

• Cystic fibrosis
• Interstitial lung disease
• Sleep and non-invasive ventilation

Teaching and lecturing

As Dr Pabary has mainly worked in teaching hospitals, medical education has naturally integrated into his work. He is co-chair of the British Paediatric Sleep Society video conference and annual cystic fibrosis symposium at the Royal Society of Medicine. He is module lead for the respiratory section of the Applied Paediatrics MSc Programme at Imperial College London. 

Dr Pabary is a regular invited speaker at national and international respiratory conferences, giving talks and presentations on a variety of paediatric respiratory conditions, and takes a key role in organisation of study days in areas including bronchoscopy and aspiration-associated lung disease. 

Publications

Dr Pabary has written several peer reviewed papers in journals including the European Respiratory Journal, Journal of Cystic Fibrosis and Paediatric Respiratory Reviews.