Dr David Fishwick

Reader in Respiratory Medicine, Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Co-Director, Centre for Workplace Health, and Chief Medical Officer, Health & Safety Laboratory

David Fishwick

Address
Department of Infection and Immunity
Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine
Respiratory Function Unit
A Floor
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
Sheffield S10 2JF

Tel: + 44 (0)114 271 3631
Tel Secretary: Carol Fidler +44 (0)114 226 1427
Fax: + 44 (0)114 271 1836
Email: d.fishwick@sheffield.ac.uk

Research Interests

David´s research interests broadly fall into the epidemiological, clinical, immunological and workplace-based aspects of occupational lung disease. The research profile in the Centre for Workplace Health is formulated to develop simple practical solutions to workplace health problems, and as a consequence all research has a practical or translational component.

Activities and Distinctions

  • In addition to the standard role of a clinical academic and honorary consultant physician, David has a role within the Health & Safety Executive. For example, David sits on HSE’s Asthma Board and the Disease Reduction Programme Strategic Board. In addition, he recently sat on the national COPD NSF Prevention and Awareness Committee. He continues to sit on the ARTP and SWORD advisory boards.
  • In addition, David has links with the WHO and other international collaborators such as South Africa and America, and has recently drawn together a national consensus for the diagnosis of occupational asthma. He is currently working on two international collaborative projects addressing diagnostic issues in occupational lung disease.
  • David also co-ordinates the GORDS group, a group of occupational respiratory disease specialists supported and funded by HSE, who meet to help define HSE policy, draft guidance and formulate research. He also represents GORDS on the UK Respiratory Research Strategy.
  • David, along with other Centre staff run a selection of postgraduate training courses relating to respiratory workplace health, and also offer a University based Occupational Health Technicians course in collaboration with the Centre for Health and Social Care Studies and Service Development.

Representative Publications

Fishwick D, Barber CM, Bradshaw LM, Harris-Roberts J, Francis M, Naylor S, Ayres J, Burge S, Corne JM, Cullinan P, Frank TL, Hendrick D, Hoyle J, Jaakkola M, Newman-Taylor A, Nicholson P, Niven R, Pickering T, Rawbone R, Stenton C, Warburton C, Curran AD.STANDARDS OF CARE FOR OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA. Thorax. 2007 Sep 28; [Epub ahead of print].

Gillespie J, Wickens K, Siebers R, Howden-Chapman P, Town I, Epton M, Fitzharris P, Fishwick D, Crane J; New Zealand Asthma and Allergy Birth Cohort Study Group. Endotoxin exposure, wheezing, and rash in infancy in a New Zealand birth cohort. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2006 Dec;118(6):1265-70.

Francis HC, Prys-Picard CO, Fishwick D, Stenton C, Burge PS, Bradshaw LM, Ayres JG, Campbell SM, Niven RM. Defining and investigating occupational asthma: a consensus approach. Occup Environ Med. 2007 Jun;64(6):361-5. Epub 2006 Nov 27.

Fishwick D, Bradshaw L, Henson M, Stenton C, Hendrick D, Burge S, Niven R, Warburton C, Rogers T, Rawbone R, Cullinan P, Barber C, Pickering T, Williams N, Ayres J, Curran AD. Occupational asthma: an assessment of diagnostic agreement between physicians. Occup Environ Med. 2007 Mar;64(3):185-90. Epub 2006 Nov 9.

Barber CM, Curran AD, Bradshaw LM, Morice AH, Rawbone R, Fishwick D. Reproducibility and validity of a Yan-style portable citric acid cough challenge. Pulm Pharmacol Ther. 2005;18(3):177-80.

Elms J, Fishwick D, Walker J, Rawbone R, Jeffrey P, Griffin P, Gibson M, Curran AD. Prevalence of sensitisation to cellulase and xylanase in bakery workers. Occup Environ Med. 2003 Oct;60(10):802-4.

Fishwick D, Raza SN, Beckett P, Swan JR, Pickering CA, Fletcher AM, Niven RM, Francis H, Rawbone R, Curran AD. Monocyte CD14 response following endotoxin exposure in cotton spinners and office workers. Am J Ind Med. 2002 Nov;42(5):437-42.

Fishwick D, Bradshaw L, Macdonald C, Beasley R, Gash D, Bengtsson T, Bondesson E, Borgström L. Cumulative and single-dose design to assess the bronchodilator effects of beta2-agonists in individuals with asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2001 Feb;163(2):474-7.

Fishwick D, Bradshaw LM, D'Souza W, Town I, Armstrong R, Pearce N, Crane J. Chronic bronchitis, shortness of breath, and airway obstruction by occupation in New Zealand. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1997 Nov;156(5):1440-6.

Fishwick D, Fletcher AM, Pickering CA, Niven RM, Faragher EB. Respiratory symptoms and dust exposure in Lancashire cotton and man-made fiber mill operatives. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1994 Aug;150(2):441-7.


Current Grants

A substantial number of individual project grants and programmes of work are active in the Centre for Workplace Health addressing various aspects of respiratory health in the workplace.

See also