Dr Simon Hart is Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at Hull York Medical School and the University of Hull.

He graduated from Edinburgh University and trained in respiratory and general (internal) medicine in south-east Scotland. He did his PhD in the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, and in 2003 he was awarded an MRC Clinician Scientist fellowship.

He is Honorary Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Castle Hill Hospital where he runs the Hull Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic and participates in the acute general medicine rota.

His research interests include the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other interstitial lung diseases, genetics and immunology of lung disease, inflammatory cell biology, and cell surface alterations associated with apoptosis (programmed cell death).