Rate My Professor Charlotte Bolton

Professor Charlotte Bolton is a Clinical Professor of Respiratory Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, School of Medicine at The University of Nottingham. She holds key leadership positions including Respiratory Academic Programme Director for Clinical Academic Trainees, Respiratory Theme Co-lead, and Airways Diseases Co-Lead at the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre. Her research centers on chronic respiratory diseases, primarily chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with a focus on extrapulmonary manifestations, the role of pulmonary rehabilitation and exercise, and multi-morbidity. Bolton investigates persisting symptoms following acute respiratory infections, including COVID-19, as Principal Investigator (PI) of the NoRCoRP and REMEDY studies. She is PI of C FIND COPD, Co-Investigator on BEACON COPD, and has previously served as PI or Co-I on major consortia such as the MRC/ABPI COPD MAP and Technology Strategy Board ERICA, alongside grants from the NIHR and pharmaceutical companies. Additional interests encompass global lung health through collaborations in Nepal, air quality, health inequalities, multiple long-term conditions, underserved populations, lung imaging, and respiratory health in adults born preterm. She supervises PhD students and contributes to advancing clinical academic training in respiratory medicine.

Bolton's influential publications include 'Challenges of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in rural Nepal' (The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2019, with KC B, Koju R, Hall IP), 'Predicting fracture risk in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a UK-based population-based cohort study' (BMJ Open, 2019, with Akyea RK, McKeever TM, Gibson J, Scullion JE), 'Management of Fracture Risk in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Building a UK Consensus Through Healthcare Professional and Patient Engagement' (International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2020, with Gupta A et al.), 'Patient-reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review' (European Respiratory Journal, 2019, with Pick HJ, Lim WS, McKeever TM), and 'Socioeconomic deprivation and the outcome of pulmonary rehabilitation in England and Wales' (Thorax, 2017, with Steiner MC et al.). Her work impacts clinical practice in pulmonary rehabilitation, COPD management, exacerbation toolkits, fall and fracture risks, and global health initiatives addressing lung disease in low-resource settings.