General medicine & respiratory medicine • Clinical respiratory physiology • Asthma • The interface of heart & lung diseases • Cardiomyopathies • Coronary heart disease • Heart failure • Thyroid diseases • Over 30 years' experience of clinical medicine, both acute & outpatient, in undergraduate & postgraduate teaching hospitals • 20 years' medico-legal practice • Court attendances welcomed • 150 peer-reviewed publications Secretary's email: [email protected]

Dr Fonseka has a specialist interest in pleural disease and has sat on the British Thoracic Society national guideline committees for both mesothelioma and pleural disease. Clinical interests: • Pleural infection • Pleural effusions • Mesothelioma • Diffuse pleural thickening • Pneumothorax • Lung cancer. Dr de Fonseka is heavily involved with pleural intervention such as local anaesthetic thoracoscopy, indwelling pleural catheters, intercostal chest drains and diagnostic/therapeutic pleural aspirations.