Michelle graduated from Kings College London in 2004 and continued her medical training in South West London, Surrey and Sussex.  She spent 4 years completing a PhD at the Lane Fox Unit, St Thomas’ Hospital working with the London respiratory muscle group working on respiratory muscle physiology and non-invasive ventilation.

The focus of her research is in patient ventilator interaction and non-invasive ventilation. She has presented her work at both national and international conferences being awarded both the ERS non-invasive ventilation grant and the British Lung Foundation travel award in 2013.  

She has worked as a consultant at the Lane Fox Unit since 2016.  Her clinical interest is in ventilatory failure, non-invasive ventilation, ventilation during sleep and neuromuscular disease. 

Michelle is the clinical lead for acute non-invasive ventilation at GSTT and the lead for the ventilatory Motor Neurone Disease Service.