Dr John Costello

Career: house staff Mater Hosp Dublin 1968-69, SHO St Stephen's Hosp, Royal Northern Hosp, Royal Postgrad Med Sch and Hammersmith Hosp 1970-72, registrar Brompton Hosp 1972-74, lectr Dept of Med Univ of Edinburgh and Royal Infirmary 1974-75, asst prof of med, attending physician and dir Pulmonary Function Laboratory San Francisco Gen Hosp and Univ of Calif 1975-77, conslt physician in gen med with special interest in respiratory disease King's Coll Hosp London 1978-2003 (med dir 1991-94), sr lectr in med GKT (previously King's Coll of Med and Dentistry) 1982-2003, clinical dir of acute servs Camberwell HA 1988-91 (chm of conslts 1989-91), clinical dir of med King's Healthcare Tst 1997-2003 (med dir and memb Bd 1991-94), dir Dept of Respiratory Med King's Coll Sch of Med 1982-98, clinical dir Sackler Inst for Pulmonary Pharmacology 1993-2003; memb Bd Health Care Projects 2008-11; chm: Capital Hospitals Ltd (rebuilding Barts and the Royal London) 2006-, Bd of Tstees Ind Doctors Fedn Educnl Tst 2006-; author of numerous scientific papers, reviews, books and chapters on aspects of respiratory disease; FRCP, FRCPI, FRSM (fndr pres Respiratory Section 1991-93)