Dr Claire Nolan
Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy
Mary Seacole 301
- Email: claire.nolan@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265949
- Physiotherapy
- Physiotherapy and Physician Associate
- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Summary
Dr Claire Nolan is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy in the Department of Health Sciences and an NIHR Advanced Fellow with clinical expertise in pulmonary rehabilitation.
Dr Nolan completed her PhD in Imperial College London in 2018 on gait speed and prognosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Dr Nolan’s research interests include strategies to increase engagement in and alternative models of rehabilitation programmes for people living with chronic lung conditions and multiple long-term conditions. She has expertise in intervention co-design, mixed-methodologies, as well as feasibility and randomised controlled trials.
Dr Nolan is Chair Elect of the American Thoracic Society Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assembly Programme Committee, a committee member of the NHSE National Respiratory Programme and the British Thoracic Society Quality Standards for Pulmonary Rehabilitation committee, and Impact Champion for the Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University.
Qualifications
PhD, Imperial College London (2018): Gait speed and prognosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
MSC, University College London (2015): Advanced cardiorespiratory physiotherapy (gold medal)
BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy (scholar), University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland (2006)
Newest selected publications
Liew, F., Efstathiou, C., Fontanella, S., Richardson, M., Saunders, R., Swieboda, D., (2024) 'Large-scale phenotyping of patients with long COVID post-hospitalization reveals mechanistic subtypes of disease'. Nature Immunology, 25 (4). pp. 607 - 621. ISSN: 1529-2908 Open Access Link
et al.Brighton, LJ., Spain, N., Gonzalez-Nieto, J., Ingram, KA., Harvey, J., Man, WD-C. and (2024) 'Remote pulmonary rehabilitation for interstitial lung disease: developing the model using experience-based codesign'. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 11 (1). pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 2052-4439 Open Access Link
et al.Lord, JM., Veenith, T., Sullivan, J., Sharma-Oates, A., Richter, AG., Greening, NJ., (2024) 'Accelerated immune ageing is associated with COVID-19 disease severity'. Immunity and Ageing, 21 (1). pp. 1 - 18.Open Access Link
et al.Nolan, CM. (2023) 'In adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, long-term telerehabilitation and unsupervised home-based treadmill training reduced hospitalisations and emergency department presentations compared with usual care [commentary]'. Journal of Physiotherapy, 70 (1). pp. 68 - 68. ISSN: 1836-9553 Open Access Link
Man, W., Chaplin, E., Daynes, E., Drummond, A., Evans, RA., Greening, NJ., (2023) 'British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation'. Thorax, 78 (Suppl 5). pp. s2 - s15. ISSN: 0040-6376 Open Access Link
et al.