Professor Ian Sabroe

Ian is co-director of Medical Humanities Sheffield. He is a respiratory physician, who’s clinical practice focuses in two areas, severe asthma and pulmonary hypertension. He is also a biomedical scientist, and his lab studies mechanisms of airway inflammation.

His interest in the application of the humanities to medicine, and in overcoming barriers of communication between arts & sciences and patients & clinicians, led him to found Medical Humanities Sheffield together with Professor Phil Withington.