Adel Mansur graduated from Tripoli Medical College in Libya and had junior medical training in Glasgow, Leeds and West Midlands and was awarded PhD in asthma genetics in 1998 by University of Leeds. He became consultant in respiratory / general medicine in 2002 at Heartlands hospital in Birmingham and has since been leading the tertiary severe asthma service in Birmingham. He led on the development of the severe asthma network covering a region in central England of West Midlands, Gloucestershire and Derbyshire and is also a member of the UK severe asthma registry group. Provision of holistic care to patients presenting with severe/difficult to treat asthma was central to the asthma team development in Birmingham now formed of experienced multidisciplinary team of specialist nurses, physiotherapists, speech therapists, psychologists and pharmacist. The clinical team works closely with the research team led by Professor Mansur. The team research interests are clinically applied in which research questions risen from clinical need were researched and results fed into clinical practice. These research areas ranged from genetics, biomarkers in asthma and phenotyping, adherence optimisation, asthma comorbidities and clinical trials. Professor Mansur is currently conducting an adherence research program investigating the effect of non-adherence on biologic treatment, use of digital technology to enhance adherence, and development of MDT approach to non-adherence management. Professor Mansur was awarded honorary chair by institute of inflammation and ageing of the University of Birmingham in 2020, and has published 138 peer-reviewed research articles in the field of asthma