Professor Omar Usmani is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London & Consultant Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital (RBH) and St Mary's Hospital London. His Clinical Specialist areas are Asthma, COPD & Chronic Cough and Research Themes are Inhaled Drug Delivery, Small Airways Physiology, Lung Imaging, Respiratory Pharmacology & Digital health. Professor Usmani is an International Authority on Aerosol Science and Inhalation Medicine. His research has significantly contributed to the understanding of therapeutic aerosol deposition and clinical effectiveness in inhaled drug delivery to the lungs. In 2015, Professor Usmani was awarded one of the highest accolades in Aerosol Science, the Thomas T Mercer Award from the American Association of Aerosol Research (AAAR) and the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM). He is the current President of ISAM and Chair of the UKIG (UK Inhaler Group).