Dr Shruthi Konda

Dr Konda is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital. She is the Linacre Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians, has been an Educational Lead of the British Sleep Society, and has been elected President of the ANSS, as part of the European Sleep Research Society. Dr Konda graduated from Imperial College and trained in London in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine. She was appointed as a Consultant Respiratory Physician in 2017. Her NHS base is the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, which is a National Centre of Excellence for patients with lung disease in the UK.   Her clinical exposure covers the breadth of respiratory medicine; she has particular expertise in the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders, and in dealing with advanced lung and neuromuscular diseases which result in respiratory failure.   Dr Konda has combined her clinical expertise with her flair for medical management by establishing a respiratory high dependency unit from business case to completion prior to the pandemic. Dr Konda is also a national and international MRCP PACES examiner on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). She is the Linacre Fellow for the Royal College of Physicians which is a national role supporting RCP College Tutors and Associate College Tutors across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. She is also an elected Councillor of the Royal College of Physicians, where she contributes to the College’s work and advocates for physicians nationally.   Her ever growing educational portfolio also includes acting as an external reviewer for two cohorts of internal medicine trainees in Kerala, India. Dr Konda has also been an educational lead for the British Sleep Society, and organises, speaks, and chairs at national and international courses and conferences. She has also been elected President of the ANSS and facilitates sleep research and education at a European level via the European Sleep Research Society.

Sleep disordered breathing, snoring, sleep apnoea, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, periodic limb movements in sleep, restless legs, sleep studies, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), respiratory failure, non-invasive ventilation (NIV), breathlessness/shortness of breath, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/ smoking related lung disorder, cough, and respiratory infection (pneumonia).