Dr Lieske M E Kuitert
Qualifications
MBChB, PhD, FRACP, FRCP
GMC number: 3514607
Practising since: 1983
Specialties
Respiratory Medicine
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Dr Kuitert has been a Consultant Respiratory Physician for more than 20 years. She has a wide range of experience however her special interests are cough, breathlessness, acute and chronic chest infections, asthma, and blood clots in the lungs. She also has experience in lung cancer, emphysema and COPD, sarcoidosis, sleep apnoea, and more recently, Long Covid.
Dr Kuitert qualified in New Zealand but moved to the UK in 1990 to further her training and to do research. She became a Fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Physicians. She completed a PhD at Imperial College in 2001. At Barts Health NHS Trust she was previously Clinical Director of Specialist Medicine, Director of the Adult Cystic Fibroisis service, and set up a specialist Cough Clinic. She participated in the development of guidelines on the diagnosis and management of DVT and pulmonary emboli (blood clots in the lungs and legs) and was a member of the Antibiotic Review group for more than ten years.
Dr Kuitert left NHS practice to concentrate on private practice in 2015, but holds Honorary Consultant status with Barts Health NHS Trust.
Some of the tests and scans carried out by Dr Kuitert as part of her investigation may include:
Blood tests
Diagnostic imaging (including chest X-ray, MRI scans, and Ultrasound)
Cardiac scans, if required.
Special interests
Cough, breathlessness, acute and chronic chest infections, asthma, and blood clots in the lungs. She also has experience in lung cancer, emphysema and COPD, sarcoidosis, sleep apnoea, and more recently, Long Covid.
Locations Dr Lieske M E Kuitert works with
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Memberships
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- British Thoracic Society
- American Thoracic Society
- European Respiratory Society
Insurers Dr Lieske M E Kuitert works with
Dr Lieske M E Kuitert works with the following private medical insurance providers:
- Aetna
- Allianz
- Aviva Health
- AXA Health
- AXA - Global Healthcare
- Benenden Health
- Bupa
- Bupa Global
- Cigna
- Cigna International
- CS Healthcare
- Exeter Family Friendly
- Freedom Health
- Healix
- Healix Healthcare
- Health-on-Line
- SecureHealth
- Simplyhealth
- Standard Life
- The Exeter Friendly
- Vitality Health (Pru Health)
- WPA