Biographies

Lord Robin Butler - Chair
Lord Butler had a high profile career in the civil service from 1961 to 1998, serving as Private Secretary to five prime ministers. He was Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service from 1988 to 1998.

He joined HM Treasury in 1961, becoming Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1964-66 and Secretary to the Budget Committee 1965-69. Private secretary to: Edward Heath, 1972-74; Harold Wilson 1974-75.  Principal private secretary to Margaret Thatcher 1982-85.  Second permanent secretary, HM Treasury 1985-87.  Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service 1988-98.  (Retired from Civil Service 1998).

Non-executive director:  ICI plc 1998-2008; HSBC Holdings plc 1998-2008.  Member Royal Commission on reform of House of Lords 1999.  Master University College Oxford 1998-2008.  Governor, Harrow School, 1975-91 (Chairman of Governorss, 1988-91); Chairman of Governors, Dulwich College, 1997-2003.

In October 2009 Lord Butler was appointed as the first Chair of King’s Health Partners.

Professor Anne Greenough -  Director of Education and Training
Professor Anne Greenough is Director of Education and Training at King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.  Professor Greenough is also Head of King’s College London School of Medicine and Director of the Level Three Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Professor Greenough’s research interests include antenatal lung growth, optimisation of respiratory support, sudden infant death syndrome and prevention and treatment of chronic lung disease. She has published more than 400 peer-reviewed publications.

Professor Robert Lechler - Executive Director
Professor Robert Lechler qualified in Medicine in Manchester in 1975. Thereafter, he undertook four years of junior hospital doctor training in general medicine and nephrology before embarking on a PhD in transplantation immunology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. Following the PhD, he returned to full-time clinical work for two years and completed his scientific training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. He returned to the UK to a Senior Lecturer Post at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1986 and became Head of the Department of Immunology in 1994. He became Dean of Hammersmith Campus at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine in 2001 and Head of the Division of Medicine in 2003. He moved to King’s College London as Head of the School of Medicine at Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals in September 2004 and was appointed Vice Principal (Health) at King’s in October 2005. In 2009 Robert took on the role of Executive Director for King’s Health Partners.

He continues to direct a research group in transplantation immunology and His research group has three major interests:

  • Defining and exploiting the mechanisms of transplantation tolerance
  • Regulating coagulation as a mechanism to inhibit inflammatory and adaptive immune responses
  • Defining the “fingerprint” of clinical transplantation tolerance

Professor John Moxham - Director of Clinical Strategy
Professor John Moxham studied economics at the London School of Economics 1964-67 and was subsequently a Research Fellow at LSE.  He undertook his medical training at University College Hospital, qualifying in 1973.  His clinical training in general and respiratory medicine included positions at University College Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, and Brompton Hospital.  From 1977-1980 he was a Lecturer in Medicine at University College Hospital researching respiratory muscle physiology.  In 1982 he was appointed as a Consultant Physician to King’s College Hospital and in 1990 was appointed Professor of Respiratory Medicine.  For 30 years his research interests have been respiratory physiology, including respiratory muscle weakness, neural respiratory drive, breathlessness, ventilatory failure, non-invasive intervention, and pulmonary rehabilitation.  He has supervised more than 40 research students and currently his research group’s interests include breathlessness, cough function in stroke, and skeletal muscle function in chronic lung disease. 

In 1997 he became Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, in 1998 Dean of the King’s College Hospital campus, and in 2000 Vice Dean of King’s College London School of Medicine.  In 2003 he relinquished his medical school administrative posts to become Medical Director at King’s College Hospital.  In 2009 he stood down as Medical Director and was appointed Director of Clinical Strategy for King’s Health Partners.