Iain Armstrong

Iain Armstrong

Consultant nurse, Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit, Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Dr Iain Armstrong is Chair of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA UK) and a Consultant Nurse within the Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit. He has over 30 years of experience in pulmonary hypertension and has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing since 2019. In 2020, their awards scheme named him Respiratory Nurse of the Year, and in 2024, he was named Cardiovascular Nurse of the Year. He is co-creator of the emPHasis-10 patient-reported outcome measure, used globally to  assess quality of life in pulmonary hypertension.