David Baldwin
Honorary Professor of Medicine and Consultant Physician
University of Nottingham
European Region
David Baldwin works as a consultant respiratory physician sub-specialising in lung cancer, mesothelioma and interventional procedures. He is NHS England Lead Clinician for Lung Cancer, and Chair of the UK Clinical Expert Group for Lung Cancer. He works with the UK Department of Health and Social Care as an adviser to the UK National Screening Committee, and is Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham. His primary research interests are in lung cancer screening and lung cancer epidemiology.
Professor Baldwin was lead respiratory physician on the UK CT lung cancer screening trial (UKLS). He has published more than 290 papers, including three influential guidelines, and has held the positions of Honorary Secretary of the British Thoracic Society, Clinical Lead on the NICE Lung Cancer Guideline Development Group (2011), Chair of the NICE Quality Standards Group on Lung Cancer (2012), Clinical Director of the East Midlands Cancer Alliance (2017–20) and Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute Screening Prevention and Early Diagnosis Group. He was associate editor of the journals Thorax, Lung Cancer and European Radiology until 2023.