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Prof Liam Heaney is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Queens University Belfast, N Ireland(NI), who trained in NI and the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. He is Director of the NI Regional Difficult Asthma Service which delivers multi-disciplinary systematic assessment with a particular interest in the identification and management of poor adherence to treatment. He has chaired the BTS Specialist Advisory Group for Asthma, the Evidence Review Group for Difficult Asthma for the BTS/Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline on Asthma Management and has been a member of the National Steering Committee for the UK Asthma Guidelines. He is a prior member of the MRC Population and Systems Medicine Board and Experimental Medicine Panel. He co‑ordinates the UK Severe Asthma Registry, is Academic Lead the MRC UK Refractory Stratification Programme (http://www.rasp.org.uk) and has published extensively on the clinical assessment and management of difficult to control asthma in adults.