RESPIRATORY CONSULTANT AND SLEEP SPECIALIST
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Dr Banerjee is a respiratory consultant based in London, Maidstone and Cranbrook. He has over 15-years’ experience in sleep and respiratory medicine and has been at the Medway NHS Foundation Trust since 2013. He is a Senior Consultant with the respiratory medicine department and current clinical lead of the respiratory and sleep services.
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Dr Banerjee has developed special interest in airway diseases and sleep medicine. He is a renowned sleep specialist in the UK specialising in sleep apnoea, restless leges syndrome and parasomnias amongst other sleep disorders. He is also a specialist in investigating the breathless patient and working on solutions for patients that have protracted coughs. Additionally, he has expertise in smoking related lung problems, asthma, bronchiectasis, pulmonary fibrosis and pleural diseases.
MEDICAL TRAINING
Dr Banerjee completed his postgraduate training at the East of England Deanery which included a year of specialist training in respiratory and general internal medicine at the Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. He gained a further 4-years’ experience at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and completed his MD (Research) from the University of Hertfordshire.
Dr Banerjee has developed an excellent reputation due to the specialist expertise gained through several years of academic and clinical work at tertiary centres and the range of treatments he can provide. He is regularly asked to train new medical staff. His work in the field of COPD has led to him becoming the clinical lead for the Kent and Medway Respiratory Group.
QUALIFICATIONS
FRCP (UK)
MRCP (Respiratory Medicine)
MD (Respiratory Medicine)
MD (Research)
AWARDS
Dr P.N.Berry Scholarship
memberships
Royal College of Physicians
British Thoracic Society
European Respiratory Society
British Sleep Society
European Sleep Society