Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

Dr Stuart Wilkinson

Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

Qualifications

MBChB MRCPCH

Specialist Interests

Dr Wilkinson’s speciality is respiratory paediatrics. Before taking on his current post at RMCH, he spent two years as a Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Fellow. He is passionate about supporting ventilator dependent children and leads the regional neonatal/respiratory forum, and has special interests in long term ventilation, asthma, sleep disordered breathing, neuromuscular respiratory compromise, congenital lung diseases and tertiary respiratory paediatric medicine.

Biography

Dr Wilkinson graduated from the University of Leicester in 2003, before going on to specialise in Paediatrics and Respiratory Medicine. He trained across northern hospitals, including Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Alder Hey. Currently, Dr Wilkinson works at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH) as the Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician and long-term ventilation consultant. As part of his post, he has also taken on the responsibility of Clinical Lead for Long Term Ventilation.

As part of his medical career, Dr Wilkinson has taken on many management roles. These include Chair and Lead National LTV Advisory Group across the UK (2021), Chair and Lead Regional Neonatal CLD Forum and LTV network regional clinical lead.

Dr Wilkinson is widely published. Recent works have included; 2021: Problems and perceptions around severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Infant journal: 17(5). 2021: Pulmonary manifestations of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases in Children” in Pulmonary Manifestations of Paediatric Diseases, Elsevier. 2020: NCEPOD report into Long Term Ventilation in children and young people: case reviewer. 2020: Characterisation of tracheobronchomalacia in infants with hypophosphatasia in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases.