Dr Melissa Heightman

Dr Heightman specialises in interstitial lung disease and integrated respiratory medicine and is the deputy clinical divisional director for medical specialities at UCLH. She qualified from the University of Cambridge in 2000, and trained in respiratory medicine at the Brompton Hospital and in North London. She held a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellowship from 2007 to 2011.

Dr Heightman supports community respiratory services in Camden and Islington and works closely with primary care to support management of patients with respiratory disease at practice level. She is working with NCL CCG to develop pathways to improve the quality of respiratory care in the Integrated Care System. She is a member of the clinical leadership group of the London Respiratory Clinical Network which develops guidance for London in meeting respiratory priorities in the NHS long term plan and relating to the COVID19 pandemic. Dr Heightman has been clinical lead for the COVID follow up service at the trust which is a multiprofessional and multispeciality service which integrates with community assessment and community rehabilitation services. She is a member of the NHSE task force considering COVID follow up service development and the NICE guideline group looking at management of the long term effects of COVID19 . She has a broad interest in transformation of outpatient services and in developing new models of care for long term conditions across the integrated care system.