Personal Profile
Dr Himender Makker is a consultant physician in respiratory and general medicine. Practicing at The Kings Oak Hospital, Cavell Hospital and Hendon Hospitals. He also holds his NHS Lung Caner and Sleep Clinics at the North Middlesex University and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has special interest in sleep disorders, lung cancer and asthma.
Dr Himender Makker provides sleep study service and manages wide range of sleep disorders including obstructive sleep apnoea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome. He has developed protocols for management of sleep disorders, provides specialist training in sleep medicine, runs sleep medicine courses and published extensively including book chapters and a book on case histories in sleep medicine.
Dr Makker is available for telephone, video and face to face consultations.
Dr Makker offers full respiratory examination and investigations including lung function and overnight respiratory monitoring. His clinical specialities include:
- Asthma-exercise-induced, chronic severe and occupational
- Breathlessness - chronic/unexplained
- Cough - recurrent/persistent
- COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
- Lung Cancer - Diagnosis and Staging
- Respiratory infections
- Respiratory failure
SLEEP:
- Excessive daytime sleepiness
- Disturbed sleep
- Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA)
- Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome (OHS)
- Periodic Limb Movement Syndrome (PLMS)
- Narcolepsy
- REM Sleep Disorder (Parasomnia)
- Insomnia
Himender Makker has led busy lung cancer service since 1997 at The North Middlesex University Hospital Trust and supported national lung cancer audit and clinical trials. Dr Himender Makker has published a book on case histories in lung cancer.
Dr Himender Makker trained in general and respiratory medicine at Cardiff, Manchester and Birmingham University Hospitals and obtained specialist experience in sleep disordered breathing and management of difficult asthma (brittle and occupational). He worked as clinical research fellow at Southampton University for DM thesis into mechanisms of exercise induced asthma.
Dr Himender Makker was awarded an MD for his research contributions to his field and has become a public figure writing for health magazines and appearing on TV and Radio shows. He remains active in Medical Education, organising study days and talks for fellow healthcare professionals and trainee respiratory specialists. Dr Himender Makker is an examiner for Royal College of Physicians, Malta Medical School and St. Georges University School of Medicine, Grenada. He peer reviews original research articles and grant applications for MRC and NIHR, chairs scientific sessions at respiratory conference (APSR, ERS) and member of peer review sub-committee of American Thoracic Society.
Dr Makker also holds the position of Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine at The University College London.
Research interests:
Dr Himender Makker has established a sleep research group in collaboration with neuropsychologists and medical physicists to investigate neuropsychological impairment in sleep apnoea. The research was funded by the CDRC grant, presented at the conferences, published in peer review journals and contributed to MD.
Dr Himender Makker has published books including case histories in sleep medicine, perioperative management of obstructive sleep apnoea and case history in lung cancer. He has also cooperated book chapters for numerous medical journals. Dr Himender Makker is the Co Vice Chair Barnet Enfield & Haringey Research Ethics Committee
