Specialty: Respiratory
Dr Kent is a consultant respiratory and sleep physician. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he completed specialist training in respiratory medicine in Dublin, before undertaking a three-year Health Research Board-funded Research Training Fellowship in Sleep Medicine.
Following this, he was appointed as a consultant in respiratory and sleep medicine in Guy鈥檚 and St Thomas鈥� 188体育s, London in 2013. Over the following six years, he helped build one of Europe鈥檚 largest multidisciplinary sleep services, and also established one of the largest severe asthma services in the UK, before returning to St James鈥檚 188体育 in 2019.
Dr Kent鈥檚 clinical practice encompasses the full range of physical sleep disorders, from obstructive sleep apnoea to parasomnia to narcolepsy, and the care of people with difficult and severe asthma, alongside other respiratory diseases.
Dr Kent鈥檚 research interests include examining the effect of sleep and sleep disorders on other aspects of physical health, and the impact of new asthma therapies on disease control.