Dr. Eihab Bedawi is a Consultant Respiratory and Pleural Physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He completed his respiratory training in South Yorkshire in 2018 before moving to Oxford as a Clinical and then Research Fellow, where he undertook subspecialist training and research in pleural disease. His PhD thesis focused on outcome prediction and early intervention in pleural infection, including the MIST-3 study; the first multicentre, randomised controlled feasibility trial of early combination fibrinolytic/enzyme therapy versus early surgery. He co-chaired the recent ERS Pleural Infection Taskforce Statement and is a member of the BTS Pleural Specialist Advisory Group.