Leadership Team
We are on a mission to ensure accurate diagnosis of asthma and COPD patients and to improve healthcare delivery by providing guided consultations through innovative and proven software solutions.
Eddie McKnight
Commercial Director / LungHealth Ltd
As well as being the commercial lead for LungHealth, Eddie is also the Managing Director of National Services for Health Improvement and the commercial lead for SleepHealth. Eddie’s business interests include health service design, the provision of UK wide specialist nursing teams and the supply of medical software solutions. Eddie has a particular interest in how healthcare technology products, such as the LungHealth decision support software packages, can be used to deliver guideline level care, reduce healthcare inequality and optimise health outcomes in a resource stretched NHS. These technology solutions in the short to medium term are expected to be utilised on a global basis.
Eddie’s medical interests are focused primarily on respiratory and cardiovascular applications with his teams having supported circa. 6,500 practices and over 30 Trusts in the UK, with the management of these patient groups.
These workstreams have resulted in the publication of various workstreams in peer-reviewed journals.
Current service provision models are focused on remote video consultation with end to end service delivery linked directly to GP clinical systems and secondary care.


Dr Rob Angus
Consultant Respiratory Physician / Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool
Dr Angus studied medicine at Glasgow University and post qualification initially trained in general internal medicine and respiratory medicine in hospitals around Glasgow before completing his training in Liverpool.
He held a British Lung Foundation Research Fellowship and in addition he spent a period of attachment to academic intensive care units in London and Chicago.
He was appointed to Aintree Chest Centre, Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool, in January 1996. In addition to a general respiratory practice he was medical director of the hospital high dependency unit (HDU) which he helped constitute and establish. He has developed an outpatient non-invasive ventilation (NIV) service and an inpatient ventilation centre. He previously led the severe asthma service at Aintree Chest Centre and has served as the UK secondary care assembly member for GINA the Global Initiative for Asthma.
He also developed, in conjunction with the local community trust, a home care scheme (ACTRITE) for COPD. Publishing the outcomes in the BMJ this is the forerunner of current intermediate care services. He has contributed to the BTS intermediate care and hospital at home guidelines for COPD, and NICE guidelines for the management of motor neurone disease (MND), including NIV, working with the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) London and NICE on this. Current research interests include exploring the impact of computer-guided consultations in asthma, COPD and sleep medicine together with Telehealth in the optimisation and remote monitoring of patients on ventilation in particular in MND.
Dr Angus is active in education and is the Respiratory Lead for the medical course at Liverpool University. He is also interested in the post qualification training of professionals in the respiratory field. He was Regional Respiratory Advisor for the RCP London from 2009 to 2019 and chairman of the Education Charity Respiratory Education UK, which in the last 20 years this has developed diploma, degree and masters courses in Respiratory Disease Management. This has now merged with Education for Health of which he is co-chair.
Professor Mike Pearson
Consultant Respiratory Physician (ret.) / University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool
Professor Michael Pearson qualified from Cambridge in Computer Science and Medicine and followed this with a 40 year clinical career as a consultant respiratory physician.
Over the last 30 years he has led the production of national guidelines for the British Thoracic Society and NICE and then as Director for Clinical Standards at the Royal College of Physicians set up National Audits for multiple conditions aimed at raising the quality of care delivery. More recently as Prof of Clinical Evaluation at University of Liverpool (now honorary) the emphasis has been toward getting data converted into a form that clinicians can relate to and then to get the outputs used to help clinicians work more efficiently/effectively. He has retired from clinical work but continues with the LungHealth and SleepHealth software as well as having roles in the Connected Healthy Cities project across the North West Coast (leading on COPD care data), and with AIMES Grid Services (advising and helping to apply the latest analytical techniques).


Dr Lisa Davies
Consultant Respiratory Physician
Lisa Davies trained in Oxford University and then worked as a junior doctor in the Midlands before spending two years working in Tanzania. She moved to Liverpool for her respiratory and general medical registrar training posts and has worked at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a consultant since 2001.
There, she has held roles as clinical lead for COPD management in the Trust and clinical lead for the home oxygen service. She established and led and developed regional community integrated respiratory services for some years. She has always been actively involved in COPD research, with a particular interest in the clinical management of the disease and has published widely in peer reviewed journals as well as holding roles as Editor of Respiratory Medicine: COPD Update and Associate Editor of Respiratory Medicine.
She is enthusiastic about and committed to medical education and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. She has held roles as the Royal College of Physicians Regional Advisor (Mersey), Regional Training Programme Director for Respiratory Medicine, Clinical Sub-Dean at the University of Liverpool School of Medicine and Director of Medical Education at Aintree Hospital.
Throughout her career she has remained committed to developing and promoting both the care of patients with respiratory disease and respiratory medicine as a specialty. She has worked as Chair of British Thoracic Society (BTS) Specialty Workforce Committee and was Chair of the Board of BTS from 2016 to 2019.
Dr Biswajit Chakrabarti
Consultant Respiratory Physician MD FRCP
We are on a mission to ensure accurate diagnosis of asthma and COPD patients and to improve healthcare delivery by providing guided consultations through innovative and proven software solutions.


