Dr Stuart Packham

Dr Stuart Packham has been a Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine since 1999, and holds private Respiratory Medicine clinics at Vale Healthcare's Cardiff Bay Clinic - located in the heart of Cardiff Bay.

Prior to beginning his private respiratory medicine consultant practice, Dr Packham qualified from the University of Aberdeen and undertook his postgraduate training in a number of centres including Aberdeen, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Llandough Hospital, Cardiff, South Wales. In addition he held an appointment as a Research Registrar at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA where he studied ventilation in patients with COPD, congenital hypoventilation syndrome and patients pre and post lung transplantation.

He was previously a Respiratory Consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading before returning to Wales and currently works for ABM University Health Board.

Stuart has developed a busy practice in Respiratory Medicine seeing patients with a variety of chest conditions including Asthma and Allergy, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema - Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, Lung Cancer and Chronic Cough and Breathlessness.

Dr Packham has an interest in the management of Persistent Cough and was a member of the British Thoracic Society Standards of Care sub-group that produced national guidelines for the investigation and treatment of this common disorder.

He runs a sleep clinic which specialises in the investigation and treatment of sleep disordered breathing including Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.

A fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, member of the British Thoracic Society, British Sleep Society, and National Specialist Advisory Group for Respiratory Medicine and Secretary of the Welsh Thoracic Society, Dr Packham brings a wealth of experience and expertise to his private respitratory medicine clincs at Vale Heathcare - South Wales' premier private clinics and private hospital in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan..