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Dr Hamish McAuley
NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer
School/Department: Respiratory Sciences, Department of
Email: hjcm1@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
My role as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer allows me to divide my time equally between clinical practice (and completing specialist training in Respiratory Medicine) and carrying out research.
Prior to this role I attended both Imperial College London to study Physics and subsequently University College London where I obtained my medical degree. I have completed core and physician training in London, Surrey and, more recently, across the Easy Midlands. My PhD was completed during the tumultuous times of COVID-19 and required a significant pivot on my subject matter from my initial plans to identify changes in muscle and physical performance among patient admitted to hospital with acute exacerbations of COPD to investigations sarcopenia and frailty among hospitalised survivors of COVID-19.
Following my appointment as an Academic Clinical Lecturer in 2023 I have returned to investigating muscle in COPD patients where I am seeking to identify phenotypic biomarkers to target both novel pharmacological and established rehabilitative therapies within this population.
Research
Publications
Gaining muscle mass in COPD: a work in progress. Hamish J.C. McAuley, Matthew Maddocks. ERJ Open Research. 10.1183/23120541.00336-2023
Prevalence of physical frailty, including risk factors, up to 1 year after hospitalisation for COVID-19 in the UK: a multicentre, longitudinal cohort study. Hamish J.C. McAuley; Rachael A. Evans; Charlotte E. Bolton; Christopher E. Brightling; James D. Chalmers; Annemarie B. Docherty; Omer Elneima; Paul L. Greenhaff; Ayushman Gupta; Victoria C. Harris et al. eClinicalMedicine. 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101896
COPD in the time of COVID-19: an analysis of acute exacerbations and reported behavioural changes in patients with COPD. Hamish McAuley; Kate Hadley; Omer Elneima; Christopher E. Brightling; Rachael A. Evans; Michael C. Steiner; Neil J. Greening. ERJ Open Research. 10.1183/23120541.00718-2020
Extrathoracic muscle wasting in exacerbations of COPD: no longer outside the region of interest. Neil J Greening; Michael I Polkey; Hamish Joseph Cameron McAuley. Thorax. 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-216647
Longitudinal changes to quadriceps thickness demonstrate acute sarcopenia following admission to hospital for an exacerbation of chronic respiratory disease. Hamish J C McAuley; Theresa C Harvey-Dunstan; Michelle Craner; Matthew Richardson; Sally J Singh; Michael C Steiner; Neil J Greening. Thorax. 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215949
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Qualifications
BSc, Imperial College London, 2006
MBBS, University College London, 2012
MRCP (UK), Royal College of Physicians London, 2016
PhD, University of Leicester, 2023