Rob Hallifax
PhD MRCP BMBCh MSci
Academic Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine
Dr Hallifax is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer the University of Oxford. He studied an MSc in Natural Sciences in Cambridge before training in medicine at the University of Oxford.
He won an MRC Clinical Training Fellowship for his DPhil: "Understanding Pneumothorax: epidemiology, physiology and outcomes", and published the results in JAMA and Thorax.
Dr Hallifax is the trial coordinator for RAMPP (Randomised Ambulatory Management of Primary Pneumothorax) - a multi-centre trial of 24 sites around the UK – which has now completed recruitment. He is trained in thoracoscopy, advanced pleural ultrasound and clinical trials methodology
Recent publications
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Management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: less is more - Authors' reply.
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Hallifax RJ. et al, (2021), Lancet (London, England), 396, 1973 - 1974
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Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: a randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
Walker SP. et al, (2021), The European respiratory journal, 57
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Patient-derived malignant pleural mesothelioma cell cultures: a tool to advance biomarker-driven treatments
Journal article
Kanellakis NI. et al, (2020), Thorax, 75, 1004 - 1008
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European Respiratory Society Statement on Thoracic Ultrasound.
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Laursen CB. et al, (2020), The European respiratory journal
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Successful awake proning is associated with improved clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19: single-centre high-dependency unit experience
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Hallifax RJ. et al, (2020), BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 7, e000678 - e000678