Prof Sanjay Agrawal

Consultant in Respiratory & Intensive Care Medicine, National Specialty Adviser for Tobacco NHSE

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Biography

Sanjay has been working on reducing the devastating impact of tobacco for many years, mainly due to seeing its profound effect on people and families in lung cancer clinics and intensive care over the past 30 years. As Chair of the  RCP tobacco advisory group and the publication of many tobacco related reports,  numerous recommendations have been made to improve the treatment of tobacco dependency many of which have now been enacted. As former Chair of the British Thoracic Society tobacco advisory group he developed the BTS national tobacco audit and subsequently led the BTS national QI programme for tobacco in 2023 and co-chaired the BTS Clinical Statement on the Management of hospital patients with tobacco dependency in 2024.