Malcolm Green (physician)

Sir Malcolm Green was the lately vice-president faculty of medicine at Imperial College London and head of National Heart and Lung Institute.

Emeritus Professor Malcolm Green DM FRCP from the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) in the Faculty of Medicine was made a Knight Bachelor for services to medicine in the 2007 Queen's New Year Honours list.

He is an alumnus of St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, King's College London.

Green began his career at the University of Oxford followed by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He was appointed consultant physician in 1975 at St Bartholomew's and Royal Brompton Hospitals and continued at RBH until retirement, with academic secondments including Dean of the NHLI, Head of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation, and a spell as Head of R&D for the National Health Service (NHS). Throughout his career, he led a research group focusing on respiratory physiology and respiratory muscle function in health and when affected by disease.

On the creation of the Imperial College School of Medicine in 1997, Green was appointed Vice Principal for Postgraduate Medicine and Campus Dean at St Mary's. When the pre-clinical school moved to South Kensington, he led to major refurbishment of the buildings and academic facilities at St Mary's, driven by his strategic focus on creating a world class research centre for infection and immunity.

Appointed Head of the NHLI in 2001, Green coordinated its research strategies across six campuses, consolidating the financial position of the division.

He founded the British Lung Foundation.

Throughout his career, Green has had a major interest in research, particularly in respiratory physiology including the small airways and the respiratory muscles. In addition, he worked in the field of air pollution, increasing public awareness of the effects of pollution on lung health.