Dr Adrian Draper - Lung Disease Specialist

Dr. Adrian Draper offers consultations on respiratory health at Parkside Hospital on alternate Wednesday mornings and Thursday afternoons. You can also find him at London Bridge Hospital on Friday mornings, where he addresses concerns related to lung cancer. Additionally, he provides services at St Anthony's Hospital on alternate Wednesday mornings.

Dr. Adrian Draper graduated from the University of London. He trained in respiratory and general medicine across various hospitals in London. His research focused on occupational asthma for an MD thesis at Royal Brompton Hospital, and he completed his training at St George’s Hospital, where he was appointed as a consultant physician in 2003.  

In his clinical practice, Dr. Adrian Draper addresses all aspects of lung disease, with a special interest in lung cancer, occupational lung disorders, and interstitial lung diseases. He serves as the clinical director for specialist medicine and is the lead clinician for both respiratory health and lung cancer services at St George’s Hospital. Additionally, he was the chair of the South West London Cancer Network Lung Tumour Working Group until 2012.  

At the end of 2011, together with Mr. I Hunt, Dr. Draper initiated the regional endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) service at St George’s. This minimally invasive technique is vital for sampling lymph glands to help diagnose and stage lung cancer and other lung conditions.  

Dr. Draper also runs a rapid access clinic at St George’s and has contributed to the development of “near patient tests” through chest ultrasound, enabling safe, rapid investigation of chest disease both in clinics and on the wards. He is an advanced life support instructor for the UK Resuscitation Council and has lectured extensively, contributing to courses in thoracic ultrasound and chest radiology at St George’s Hospital. His involvement in clinical research includes supervising original works that have been presented at national and international meetings. He has recently been awarded funding to study the effects of mould and damp in the homes of asthma patients.

Peer-reviewed publications by Dr. Adrian Draper 

L. Gabriel, T. McVeigh, S. Macmahon, Z. Avila, L. Donovan, I. Hunt, A. Draper, A. Minchom, S. Popat, M. Davidson, J. Bhosle, C. Milner Watts, M. Hubank, L. Yuan, MER O'Brien, Familial rare EGFR-mutant lung cancer syndrome: Review of literature and description of R776H family. Lung Cancer, Volume 191,2024

O'Dowd E, Berovic M, Callister M, Chalitsios C, Chopra D, Das I, Draper A, Garner J, F, Janes S, Kennedy M, Lee R, Mauri F, McKeever  T, McNulty W,  Murray J, Nair A, John Park J, Rawlinson J, Sagoo G , Scarsbrook A, Shah P,Sudhir R,Talwar A,Thakrar R, Watkins J, Baldwin D. Determining the impact of an artificial intelligence tool on the management of pulmonary nodules detected incidentally on CT (DOLCE) study protocol: a prospective, non-interventional multicentre UK study. BMJ Open 2024;14:e077747. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2023-077747 

J May, A Draper, R Aul, Eosinophilic pneumonia and COVID-19 vaccination, QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 2022; 115:4 251-252

Mehta M, Ghani H, Chua F, Draper A, Calmonson S, Prabhakar M, Shah R, Navarra A, Vaghela T, Barlow A, Vancheeswaran R.Retrospective case–control study to evaluate hypocalcaemia as a distinguishing feature of COVID-19 compared with other infective pneumonias and its association with disease severity BMJ Open 2021;11: e053810. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053810

Aul R, Gates J, Draper A, Dunleavy A, Ruickbie S, Meredith H, Walters N, van Zeller C, Taylor V, Bridgett M, Dunwoody R, Grubnic S, Jacob T, Ong YE. Complications after discharge with COVID-19 infection and risk factors associated with development of post-COVID pulmonary fibrosis. Respir Med. 2021 Nov; 188:106602. 

A Draper*, F Chua* R Vancheeswaran*, T Vaghela, M Knight, R Mogal, J Singh, L Spencer, E Thwaite, H Mitchell, S Calmonson, N Mahdi, S Assadullah, M Leung, A O’Neill, C Popat, R Kumar, T Humphries, R Talbutt, S Raghunath, P Molyneaux, M Schechter, J Lowe and A Barlow. Early prognostication of COVID-19 to guide hospitalisation versus outpatient monitoring using a point-of-test risk prediction score. * Co- first authors. Thorax 2021; 76:696-703.

Chua F, Armstrong-James D, Desai SR, Barnett J, Kouranos V, Kon OM, José R, Vancheeswaran R, Loebinger MR, Wong J, Cutino Moguel MT, Morgan C, Ledot S Lams B, Yip WH, Li SK, Lee YC, Draper A, Kho SS, Renzoni E, Ward K, Periselneris J, Grubnic S, Lipman M, Wells AU, Devaraj A. The role of CT in case ascertainment and management of COV-19 pneumonia in the United Kingdom: insights from high-incidence regions. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2020 Vol. 8, No. 5, p438–440

G Tunnicliffe, A Draper. A pilot study of a digital drainage system in pneumothorax. BMJ Open Resp Res 2014;1: e000033 doi:10.1136/bmjresp-2014-000033

Chang YJ, Ali H, Draper A, Chua F. An unusual cause of cyanosis in a patient with COPD. BMJ Case Reports 2013.

P Rao, R Buxton-Thomas, B Tinwell, A Draper, J Vlahos, S Walsh. Unexplained dyspnoea in a patient with idiopathic myelofibrosis. Thorax 2013. 68(2) 199-200.

K Nimako, J Poloniecki, A Draper,T Rahman. Seasonal variability and meteorological factors: Retrospective study of the incidence of pulmonary embolism from a large UK teaching hospital. Respiratory Care 2012. 57(8):1267-1272(6)

A Draper. COPD: A continuing burden. Nursing in Practice. 2009 51

H Jeal, J Harris, A Draper, A Newman Taylor, P Cullinan, M Jones.  Dual sensitization to rat and mouse urinary allergens reflects cross-reactive molecules rather than atopy. Allergy 2009. 64(6):855-61, 

H Jeal, A Draper, J Harris, A Newman Taylor, P Cullinan, M Jones. Modified Th2 responses at High-Dose Exposures to Allergen: Using an Occupational Model
Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med 2006. 174: 21-25.

H Jeal, A Draper,  J Harris, A Newman Taylor, P Cullinan, M Jones. Determination of the T cell epitopes of the lipocalin allergen, Rat n 1. Clin Exp Allergy 2004; 34:1919–1925

R Pearse, A Draper, R Grounds Non-invasive ventilation to avoid tracheal intubation in a patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome Br J Anaesth 2003 91: 913-916

H Jeal, A Draper, M Jones, J Harris, K Welsh , A Newman Taylor, P Cullinan. HLA associations with sensitisation to rat lipocalin allergens: a model for other animal allergies? Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology 2003; 111 (4): 795-799

A Draper, P Cullinan, AJ Newman Taylor. Estimating the incidence of occupational asthma and rhinitis from laboratory animal allergens in the UK, 1999-2000. Occup Environ Med; 60 (8): 604-605

A Draper, P Cullinan, M Jones, C Campbell, AJ Newman Taylor. Occupational asthma due to powdered fungicides Occup Environ Med 60 (1): 76-77

A Draper.  Occupational Asthma. J Asthma 2002 ;39(1) :1-10

Hole AM, Draper A, Jolliffe G, Cullinan P, Jones M, Taylor AJ. Occupational asthma caused by bacillary amylase used in the detergent industry. Occup Environ Med 2000; 57(12):840-842.

A Draper. When is asthma related to work? Practitioner 1999; 243:386-400