Dr Ari Manuel, Respiratory, Sleep and Ventilation Consultant
Dr Ari Manuel
Respiratory, Sleep and Ventilation Consultant
Dr Ari Manuel MBBS (Imperial) BSc (Imperial) MRCP (UK) DPhil (Oxford)
Respiratory, Sleep and Ventilation Consultant
Dr Ari Manuel
Respiratory, Sleep and Ventilation Consultant MBBS (Imperial) BSc (Imperial) MRCP (UK) DPhil (Oxford)
About Dr Ari Manuel
GMC number: 6076363
Year qualified: 2003
Place of primary qualification: University of London
Dr Ari Manuel is a general respiratory consultant based in Liverpool, specialising in sleep disorders and ventilation. He holds a senior clinical lecturer position at the University of Liverpool and is also an academic with the University of Sheffield.
Dr Manuel graduated from Imperial College with a BSc in Biochemistry and a degree in Medicine. He completed his medical training in London and Oxford, and further pursued a DPhil in Sleep Medicine at Oriel College, Oxford. Additionally, he holds a diploma in higher education from the University of Oxford.
He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and serves as the vice president of the International Council of the American Association of Sleep Medicine (AASM) from 2021 to 2024. Dr Manuel is also a council member for the British Sleep Society (BSS) and the Royal Society of Medicine, with his term running from 2019 to 2027.
In 2020, Dr Manuel co-authored one of the most referenced and viewed medical research papers in the Lancet journal, focusing on the long-term complications of COVID-19 infection.
Dr Manuel's areas of expertise include the treatment of various conditions such as COVID-19 complications, insomnia, unrefreshed sleep, fatigue and tiredness, restless legs, obstructive sleep apnoea, weight-related respiratory complications, asthma, COPD, infections, breathlessness, MAST cell syndrome, hypermobility syndromes, chronic fatigue, and sleep disorders related to ADHD and autism.
Dr Manuel has been serving in his current roles since his appointment and continues to contribute significantly to the field of respiratory medicine and sleep disorders.
Areas of expertise
- All covid-19 complications including fatigue and residual breathlessness
- Asthma
- Breathlessness
- Bronchoscopy
- Chronic fatigue
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Coronavirus (covid-19) test
- Dysautonomia
- Exercise advice
- Fatigue & tiredness
- Hypermobility syndromes
- Infection
- Insomnia
- Mast cell syndrome
- Narcolepsy
- Non-refreshing sleep
- Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)
- Obstructive sleep exercise
- Pleural interventions
- Pulmonary embolism (lung blood clot)
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Restless legs
- Sleep disorders related to ADHD and autism
- Unrefreshed sleep
- Weight-related respiratory complications
- Wheezing
Professional memberships
Articles by Dr Ari Manuel
Markers of adipose tissue hypoxia are elevated in subcutaneous adipose tissue of severely obese patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome but not in the moderately obese
Relationships between MRI fat distributions and sleep apnea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome in very obese patients
Does either obesity or OSA severity influence the response of autotitrating CPAP machines in very obese subjects?
Is a raised bicarbonate, without hypercapnia, part of the physiologic spectrum of obesity-related hypoventilation?
Exploratory study into the effect of abdominal mass loading on airways resistance and ventilatory failure
Effect of continuous positive airway pressure treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea on visual processing of degraded words