Ren Lawlor is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and independent prescriber in South London. She is the clinical educator and academic tutor lead for the South East London Training Hub and a visiting lecturer for various universities including University of Greenwich and De Montfort University. Ren is the vice chair for the PCRS executive committee and is chair of the PCRS education committee and co-clinical lead for PCRA.

Following 26 years working in general practice Carol now works at Gloucestershire ICB on the Respiratory Clinical Programme Group and is the CYP Asthma Clinical Lead. Carol has also been appointed as a co-clinical lead of the NHSE South West Respiratory Network.
Carol is the past Executive Chair of PCRS – the first non-doctor and first female to take the chair. She is current policy lead for PCRS. She is also a director of the UK Lung Cancer Coalition, and a board member of the UK Inhaler Group and National Asthma and COPD Audit as well as sitting on the NHS Long Term Plan Respiratory Delivery Board. She also co-chairs the Lung Health Task Force early and accurate diagnosis group and is a member of the NHS Long Term Plan Breathlessness Diagnosis group.
Carol received Queen’s Nurse award in 2007 and in 2016 was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list for Services to Nursing and Healthcare.

Kevin is a GP, based in Box, Wiltshire. He is former education lead of PCRS-UK and is a member of the policy group. He is clinical adviser for NICE and RCGP. He has served on NICE Guidelines and Standards Committees in asthma and COPD and is currently a member of the SIGN/NICE asthma Guidelines Committee, He has recently served on the BTS Bronchiectasis Guidelines Committee and is a current member of the BTS Cough Guidelines Committee.
He is a GPwSI in sports medicine and a former medical officer of Bath and British Army Rugby teams.

Deborah qualified as a pharmacist in 2000 with a first-class degree. She has had a varied career starting in community pharmacy, moving on to regional and national training roles and then into primary care in 2009 as a clinical pharmacist for NHS Sheffield.
In 2016 Deborah qualified as a pharmacist independent prescriber and was appointed respiratory lead pharmacist for Sheffield CCG and now for South Yorkshire ICB (Sheffield) Deborah has led on many pieces of respiratory work including guideline and formulary development. She has also developed many initiatives for inhaler optimisation for the city as well as educational sessions. Deborah is also currently Co-Clinical Lead for Children and Young Peoples Asthma for South Yorkshire, Clinical Lead for SABA reduction in South Yorkshire, Chair of the South Yorkshire Sustainable Respiratory Group and a committee member for the South Yorkshire Respiratory Interest Group.
Deborah is Vice Chair of the PCRS Service Development Committee, a member of the Policy Forum and is a core member of the Asthma Right Care team. She has contributed to various PCRS documents including Asthma Guidelines in Practice – A PCRS consensus. She has a passion for respiratory care and is focussed at putting the patient at the centre of care.

Helena Cummings is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a Specialist Respiratory Interest. Previously, Helena spent over a decade working in her much loved role as Respiratory Nurse Specialist in secondary care. Here she built expert knowledge and skill in the severe asthma and COPD services. Helena's move from secondary care 2 years ago enabled her to bring her respiratory expertise into the primary care setting and closer to the patient. Helena works hard to push boundaries and open new thinking about both Asthma and COPD.

A Clinical Fellow Pharmacist with a keen interest in preventative medicine. Darush has presented at various national and international conferences (including the PCRS, IPCRG, ERS, Clinical Pharmacy Congress). Darush was part of the London Clinical Senate Helping Smokers Quit programme. Darush is a lead for NHS RightBreathe and helps mentor clinicians in 45 PCNs across NW London. In 2019 Darush was awarded PCPA GP Pharmacist runner up. He runs group sessions with patients and clinicians. Darush is the Chair of the PCRS Conference Organising Committee, also on the Executive Committee.
Other roles include:
Co-Chair Taskforce for Lung Health Medicines Optimisation Working Group
Co-Chair of the CYP Pharmacy asthma group pan London

Darush enjoys running and raising money for respiratory and cardiac charities. One of his main missions is to reduce health inequalities caused by tobacco and spends a lot of his time teaching in deprived locations across the UK.