Professor Nick Maskell
B.Med.Sci., B.M.,B.S.(Nott.), F.R.C.P., D.M., FCCP
Current positions
Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Bristol Medical School (THS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme: PB-PG-1217-10106 – Thoracoscopic Talc Poudrage + Indwelling Pleural Catheters versus Thoracoscopic Talc Poudrage only in Malignant Pleural Effusion (R-TACTIC).
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/09/2019 to 31/08/2022
Thesis supervisions
Asbestos related pleural disease
Supervisors
Evaluation of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) as a Prognostic Tool in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)
Supervisors
Optimising the management of malignant pleural effusion
Supervisors
A Trial of Intra-pleural bacteriaL immunoTherapy in mesothelioma (TILT) – a feasibility study using the trial within a cohort methodology.
Supervisors
Improving diagnosis and prognostication in mesothelioma and malignant pleural disease
Supervisors
The Ambulatory Management of Pleural Infection
Supervisors
Understanding the clinical course and progression of non-malignant pleural disease
Supervisors
A new method for measuring treatment response and disease progression in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Supervisors
DSc - Timothy Rutland Walsh
Supervisors
Can the prognostication and management of non-malignant pleural effusions be improved?
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
28/01/2026Time to next procedure in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing aspiration
Thorax
Improving the accuracy of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) incidence among hospitalised adults in Bristol, UK
Improving the accuracy of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) incidence among hospitalised adults in Bristol, UK
P184 Readmissions and mortality following index hospitalisation for community-acquired pneumonia: a population-based analysis using HES data
A prospective national cohort study of patients with secondary spontaneous pneumothorax assessing the impact of frailty at diagnosis on mortality and admission to hospital
ERJ Open Research
Characteristics and predictors of clinical outcome in patients with pleural effusions caused by heart, liver and renal failure
ERJ Open Research
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