Maria Kokosi M.D.

Dr. Maria Kokosi is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Royal Brompton Hospital and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London and holds internationally recognized expertise in interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) and rare respiratory disorders. She leads the Rare Cystic Lung Disease Service within the National Cystic Lung Disease Rare Disease Collaborative Network (RDCN) and chairs the associated national Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meeting. She also leads the Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (PAP) Service at Royal Brompton Hospital, a national referral centre providing specialist care for patients from across the UK.

Dr. Kokosi completed specialist training in Respiratory Medicine in Greece then moved to the U.S. for a research fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina. She subsequently joined the Royal Brompton Hospital as a Clinical Research Fellow and was ultimately appointed Consultant Respiratory Physician. Her clinical and academic interests focus on ILDs, with particular expertise in rare conditions including cystic lung diseases and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. She is actively involved in translational research and clinical trials, serving as Principal Investigator for studies investigating novel therapies in interstitial and rare respiratory diseases. She is also Co-Lead of the LifeArc Centre for Rare Respiratory Diseases.

Dr. Kokosi has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and contributes to international respiratory medicine through her engagement with the European Respiratory Society (ERS). She previously served on the ERS Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis Guideline Committee and is currently a member of the ERS HERMES Examination Committee for Adult Respiratory Medicine.

She is committed to providing high-quality, patient-centred care and advancing the understanding and treatment of rare lung diseases.