Professor Jane Lucas BM, FRCPCH, MD PhD
Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Honorary Consultant Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

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Jane Lucas is a Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at University of Southampton.
What I love most about working in Southampton is the shared vision of the University and the Hospital Trust. I am part of a vibrant multidisciplinary team comprising clinicians, scientists, nurses, physiotherapists, epidemiologists and technicians; we are working together to provide excellence in clinical care through research and education.
Clinically Jane leads the national primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) centre in Southampton. Her respiratory research is focused on understanding the pathophysiology of PCD and improving management of patients with this disease. She also investigates the role of ciliated respiratory epithelium in disease and health, including the interaction between cilia and bacteria or viruses. She is investigating associations between patients’ genotypes and their clinical phenotype. She is investigating novel approaches to diagnose PCD. Jane’s programme closely integrates clinical service, research and education, and team compromises clinicians, laboratory scientists and social scientists.
Having graduated in medicine from the University of Southampton in 1989, she started her career in clinical paediatrics before undertaking specialist training in paediatric allergy and chest medicine. She returned to postgraduate studies, supervised by Professors John Warner and Jonathan Hourihane at University of Southampton in 2002 graduating with a PhD in 2006. In 2006 Jane was awarded a HEFCE Senior Lectureship, and was appointed to a personal chair in the Faculty of Medicine in 2015.
Jane leads a European Respiratory Society Task Force for Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (2020- ). Jane recently chaired BEAT-PCD (COST Action BM1407 2014-19): a global network coordinating research from basic science to clinical care, with the ultimate goal to develop treatments that lead to improvements in long-term outcome of patients with PCD.
Qualifications
PhD, School of Medicine, University of Southampton 2005
Membership of the Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health 1997
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians 1994
Diploma of Anaesthetics, Royal College of Anaesthetists 1993
Bachelor of Medicine, University of Southampton 1998
FRCP 2011
FRCPCH 2011
Appointments held
Professor and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician in Allergy in Respiratory Medicine 2015 to date
Reader, Faculty of Medicine University of Southampton 2013
HEFCE Award Senior Lecturer 2006