Dr Johanna Feary graduated in medicine from the University of Nottingham and initially worked in the West Midlands before moving to London to complete her specialist respiratory training at a number of hospitals including St George’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital. She has worked in the field of occupational lung disease since 2014.
She has a master's degree in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her PhD thesis, awarded by the University of Nottingham, was in the field of asthma epidemiology, specifically the association between environmental exposures and asthma and atopy.
Dr Feary is an academic consultant in occupational lung disease and holds an honorary senior lecturer post in the department of Respiratory Epidemiology and Occupational Disease at Imperial College London. She also works in the severe asthma clinic at Royal Brompton Hospital.
The occupational lung disease service at the Royal Brompton Hospital is the oldest and busiest service of its kind in the UK.
Dr Feary’s expertise includes the assessment, investigation and management of people with occupational lung disease and of those with severe and difficult to control asthma. She is passionate about increasing the profile of occupational lung diseases in the UK.
