Dr Michael Crooks

Prof Michael Crooks

Professor of Respiratory Medicine

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Hull York Medical School

Summary

Michael was appointed as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine in 2016 and currently works in the Respiratory Research Group within the Institute of Clinical and Applied Health Research.

Michael undertook his undergraduate training in Dundee before moving to Edinburgh where he completed his Foundation Training. He moved to Hull in 2009 as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow before completing his MD investigating the role of platelets and the endothelium in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2013. He was subsequently awarded an NIHR Clinical Lecturer position at Hull York Medical School where he continued his interstitial lung disease research and developed his interest in COPD and the use of technology in healthcare.

He is an honorary consultant in Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. His sub-speciality interests include interstitial lung disease and COPD for which he undertakes weekly clinics. He leads the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals COPD service.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

ERS guideline recommendation on airflow for breathlessness: the pitfalls of applying GRADE evidence ratings to complex non-pharmacological interventions

Luckett, T., Swan, F., Clark, J., Roberts, M., Pearson, M., Hutchinson, A., Currow, D., Kochovska, S., Crooks, M., Smith, T., & Johnson, M. (2025). ERS guideline recommendation on airflow for breathlessness: the pitfalls of applying GRADE evidence ratings to complex non-pharmacological interventions. European respiratory journal, 65(2), Article 2402244. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02244-2024

Nighttime Cough Characteristics in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients

den Brinker, A. C., Ouweltjes, O., Rietman, R., Thackray-Nocera, S., Crooks, M. G., & Morice, A. H. (2025). Nighttime Cough Characteristics in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients. Sensors, 25(2), Article 404. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25020404

Breathlessness without borders: a call to action for global breathlessness research

Clark, J. D., Binnie, K., Bond, M., Crooks, M., Currow, D. C., Curry, J., Elsey, H., Habib, M., Hutchinson, A., Soyiri, I., Johnson, M. J., Nair, S., Rao, S., Siqueira-Filha, N., Spathis, A., & Williams, S. (2024). Breathlessness without borders: a call to action for global breathlessness research. NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 34(1), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-024-00384-9

Anti-inflammatory reliever therapy (AIR) for asthma

Levy, M. L., & Crooks, M. G. (2024). Anti-inflammatory reliever therapy (AIR) for asthma. ERJ Open Research, 10(5), Article 00494-2024. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00494-2024

Prevalence, risk factors and characterisation of individuals with long COVID using Electronic Health Records in over 1.5 million COVID cases in England

Wang, H. I., Doran, T., Crooks, M. G., Khunti, K., Heightman, M., Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A., Qummer Ul Arfeen, M., Loveless, A., Banerjee, A., & Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, C. (2024). Prevalence, risk factors and characterisation of individuals with long COVID using Electronic Health Records in over 1.5 million COVID cases in England. Journal of Infection, 89(4), Article 106235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2024.106235

Research interests

Interstitial Lung Disease, COPD

Lead investigator

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A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial to determine the safety and efficacy of inhaled SNG001 (IFN-β1a for nebulisation) for the treatment of patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection

Funder

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Grant

£28,094.00

Started

15 April 2020

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

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Started

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BREEZE 2: A randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention to manage breathlessness in pulmonary fibrosis

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NIHR National Institute for Health Research

Grant

£397,551.00

Started

1 April 2024

Status

Ongoing

Project

A single arm, open-label exploratory clinical trial of azithromycin in pulmonary sarcoidosis

Funder

SarcoidosisUK

Grant

£59,992.00

Started

1 March 2019

Status

Complete

Project

Development and application of a multi-scale computational model of sarcoidosis to predict therapeutic approaches for non-self-resolving disease

Funder

Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

Grant

£117,415.00

Started

30 June 2017

Status

Complete

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HEIF: Simplifying patient information for clinical trials

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University of Hull

Grant

£22,200.00

Started

1 August 2023

Status

Complete

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