Dr Andrew Barlow qualified from the University of Sheffield Medical School in 1996 with an Honours degree in Medicine, after completing a three-year BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology at Manchester University. In 2005 he was awarded a Masters in Respiratory Medicine from Imperial College London.
His NHS practice is based at Watford General Hospital (Respiratory and General Internal Medicine). He is Divisional Director for Women’s and Children’s Health at Watford General Hospital, having previously been Clinical Director for Medicine. He runs and chairs the faculty of the West Herts EBUS course, training doctors from around the country in complex endobronchial ultrasound.
Clinical interests and procedures
Dr Barlow’s interests include asthma and airway disease, chronic cough, respiratory allergy and infection, sleep medicine, lung cancer, pleural disease and interventional bronchoscopy, including EBUS.
Advanced thoracic ultrasound
Dr Barlow holds the European Respiratory Society (ERS) qualification in thoracic ultrasound. He performs procedures at Spire Bushey Hospital and The Wellington Hospital, including endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) and assessment of lung and pleural disease.
He has undertaken advanced training in interventional pulmonology and advanced pleural procedures, including European Respiratory Society (ERS) pleural training and qualification, and regularly carries out complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Read about pleural disease.