This webinar focuses on the baseline assessment of shortness of breath and the association with early or established interstitial lung disease.
Learning Objectives
- Assessment of shortness of breath
- Awareness and assessment of ILD
- Necessary tools for evaluating patients with early or established ILD in the primary care
- Comorbidities in ILD and their assessment
- Effect of treatments in ILD and their monitoring in the primary care
Dr Vasilis Kouranos Background
Dr Vasilis Kouranos is highly specialised in pulmonary fibrosis and interstitial lung diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis and connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases at Royal Brompton Hospital.
He has sub-specialist expertise in sarcoidosis and particularly cardiac sarcoidosis, which was the subject of his PhD thesis. He also offers clinical support for sarcoidosis and ILD patients with lung cancer.
Dr Vasilis Kouranos
Consultant respiratory physician
- Curated for: Allied Health Professional & Primary care doctors & Students
- Subject: Respiratory medicine
45 Minutes
04 Dec 2024 This webinar focuses on the baseline assessment of shortness of breath and the association with early or established interstitial lung disease.
Learning Objectives
- Assessment of shortness of breath
- Awareness and assessment of ILD
- Necessary tools for evaluating patients with early or established ILD in the primary care
- Comorbidities in ILD and their assessment
- Effect of treatments in ILD and their monitoring in the primary care
Dr Vasilis Kouranos Background
Dr Vasilis Kouranos is highly specialised in pulmonary fibrosis and interstitial lung diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis and connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases at Royal Brompton Hospital.
He has sub-specialist expertise in sarcoidosis and particularly cardiac sarcoidosis, which was the subject of his PhD thesis. He also offers clinical support for sarcoidosis and ILD patients with lung cancer.
Dr Vasilis Kouranos
Consultant respiratory physician
- Curated For : Allied Health Professional & Primary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
45 Minutes
03 Dec 2024 The webinar will focus on the investigation and initial management of heart failure and heart muscle disease in primary care. Including red flag symptoms, importance of family history, what to look for on ECGs and echocardiograms, use of natriuretic peptides, and when to refer to specialist care.
Learning objectives:
- Identify red flags in patients presenting with heart failure and cardiomyopathy
- Improve confidence in interpreting initial investigations such as ECGs, Holter monitors and echocardiograms
- Improve confidence in the use of natriuretic peptides
- Improve knowledge of the initial treatment of heart failure and cardiomyopathy – including recent treatment updates
- Define indications and priority for referral to secondary care
Dr Brian Halliday Background
Dr Brian Halliday specialises in inherited and acquired cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease), heart failure, heart recovery, myocarditis, cardiac genetics and cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
Dr Brian Halliday
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Cardiology
55 Minutes
30 Oct 2024 This Grand Round presented by Dr Amanda Sathyapala focuses on CPAP adherence in patient with obstructive sleep apnea.
Dr Amanda Sathyapala Background
Dr Amanda Sathyapala is a consultant respiratory physician, and clinical lead of the home ventilation service at Harefield hospital.
She is also a senior lecturer in the airways disease section of the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London.
Her clinical expertise includes respiratory failure, particularly chronic ventilatory failure requiring non-invasive ventilation, as a result of conditions such as COPD, bronchiectasis, chest wall disease, lung fibrosis, or following surgery. She also specialises in diagnosis and management of respiratory muscle weakness as well as sleep-disordered breathing, such as obstructive sleep apnoea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome.
She is one of only a few respiratory physicians delivering cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia.
Dr Amanda Sathyapala
- Curated For : Secondary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
45 Minutes
10 Sep 2024 The webinar will focus on case studies highlighting the differential diagnosis of chronic cough in the context of chest infections and conditions that mimic infection both clinically and radiologically.
Learning objectives:
- To understand that broader causes of chronic cough
- To understand the diagnostic pathway of chronic cough
- To learn when chest infections are drivers of chronic cough
- To understand mimics of chest infections presenting with chronic cough
Dr Ricardo Jose BackgroundÂ
Dr Ricardo Jose is a consultant in respiratory medicine experienced in all aspects of respiratory medicine. He has particular expertise in complex respiratory infections, bronchiectasis and respiratory disease associated with cancer therapy and runs a dedicated clinic for respiratory infection and disease management in patients with primary and secondary immunodeficiency.
Dr Ricardo José
Consultant in respiratory medicine
- Curated For : Allied Health Professional & Nurse & Primary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 Hour
11 Jul 2024 This talk presented by Dr Hatem Soliman Aboumarie focuses on lung ultrasound in acute care.
Dr Hatem Soliman Aboumarie Background
Dr Hatem Aboumarie is a consultant in cardiothoracic intensive care, clinical lead for organ donation and clinical lead for advanced critical care practitioners at Harefield Hospital. In addition to this role, he is an honorary senior lecturer at the School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences at King’s College London.
Dr Hatem Aboumarie’s clinical expertise includes:
- critical care management of various cardiac and respiratory disorders
- management of patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for respiratory failure and cardiogenic shock
- management of different modalities of mechanical circulatory support including long-term left ventricular assist devices
- management of heart and lung transplantation
- expert application of echocardiography and point of care ultrasound in the intensive care unit.
Dr Hatem Soliman Aboumarie
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Radiographers / technologists & Secondary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
30 Minutes
04 Jul 2024 This Grand Round presented by Professor Gisli Jenkins will look into the road-map to precision medicine in pulmonary fibrosis.
Professor Gisli Jenkins Background
Professor Gisli Jenkins clinical focus is on interstitial lung disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in particular. Currently, he is the Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis lead for the Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership in Respiratory Medicine and is Post Hospitalisation (PHOSP)-COVID study Fibrosis Working Group lead, also leading the UK interstitial Lung Disease consortium.
He is an NIHR research professor and holds the Margaret Turner-Warwick chair of thoracic medicine at Imperial College London. Professor Jenkins is the head of the Margaret Turner-Warwick Centre for Fibrosing Lung Diseases at the National Heart and Lung Institute.
He is the pulmonary fibrosis working group lead for the Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership in Respiratory Medicine, the PHOSP-COVID study and the HEAL COVID platform study.
Professor Gisli Jenkins
Respiratory physician
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 Hour
04 Jul 2024 This Grand Round focuses on the current state of atrial fibrillation in 2024 and the future challenges we might face to meet the needs and expectations of patients affected by atrial fibrillation.
Learning Objectives
- Relevance of atrial fibrillation – a global picture
- Digital applications for AF detection and treatment
- Stroke prevention – oral anti-coagulation and beyond
- AHRE – new trial data
- Rational for rhythm control in AF
- Catheter ablation – new technologies and new trial results
- Future of AF therapies
Professor Gerhard Hindricks background
Professor Gerhard Hindricks headed the Heart Center in Leipzig until February 2023 when he was appointed Head of Electrophysiology-Rhythmology at the German Heart Center of Charité, and Chief Integration Officer of the German Heart Center Berlin in March 2023. His main responsibilities in Berlin are the development of excellence in electro-physiology at Charité hospitals, the integration of the Charité hospitals to the German Heart Centre (as Chief Integration Officer) and to support the German Heart Centre of the Charité in fields of strategic development.
Professor Gerhard Hindricks
- Curated For : Nurse & Secondary care doctors & Students & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology
1 Hour
01 Jul 2024 This talk focuses on endothelial studies focusing on patients with chronic lung disorders such as COPD or IPF.
Learning objectives
- Role of endothelium in chronic lung disease
- Endothelial studies using endothelial progenitors (ECFC)
- Endothelial dysfunction in COPD – studies using ECFC
Dr Koralia Paschalaki Background
Dr Koralia Paschalaki is a respiratory physician and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute. Her research is focused on the molecular mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction and vascular disease in patients with chronic lung disorders, including COPD and IPF. Using circulating endothelial progenitors, she has provided the first evidence of accelerated endothelial ageing (senescence) due to epigenetic dysfunction in patients with COPD, providing novel insights into the development of cardiovascular disease in this group. Her research work, employing primary endothelial cells and advanced organ-on-a-chip platforms, is currently funded by BHF, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and pharma.
Koralia Paschalaki
- Curated For : Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
35 Minutes
20 Jun 2024 This Grand Round presented by Dr Freda Yang focuses on severe asthma exacerbation. The key question she explored: “Are we ready to take a personalised approach to treating severe asthma exacerbations?”.
Dr Freda Yang Background
Dr Freda Yang is an Academic Clinical Lecturer at the Airways Disease Section of the National Heart and Lung Institute and a Specialty Trainee in Respiratory and Internal Medicine at Imperial College Hospitals NHS Trust.
She has an MBChB and MD from the University of Glasgow, where she undertook her postgraduate research training. Her MD, funded by the MRC UK Refractory Asthma Stratification Programme (RASP-UK) led by Professor Liam Heaney, generated novel findings on the role of oral corticosteroids in biologic-treated patients with severe asthma, and risk factors for exacerbations in biologic-naïve patients. She joined Dr Chloe Bloom’s group in 2023 to study asthma using large clinical data. Her research interests are in phenotyping severe asthma, and understanding the causes of severe exacerbations and factors that lead to the development of severe asthma.
Freda Yang
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
40 Minutes
19 Jun 2024 This Grand Round, presented by Dr Ranil de Silva, focuses on ‘Coronary sinus reducer for the treatment of angina and coronary microvascular dysfunction’.
Dr Ranil de Silva Background
Dr Ranil de Silva is a consultant interventional cardiologist and leads the specialist angina service at Royal Brompton Hospital, where he treats private and NHS patients.
In 1995, he graduated with honours from King’s College London with a degree in medicine. Following that he completed his training in general medicine, general cardiology and interventional cardiology at Royal Brompton, Chelsea and Westminster, Hammersmith, and St Mary’s hospitals in London.
He conducted his PhD research at the Medical Research Council Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, and at the Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels in Akita, Japan.
In particular, his research areas include: refractory angina, coronary microvascular dysfunction, coronary plaque biomechanics, novel cardiac magnetic resonance imaging techniques for the study of adverse left ventricular remodelling.
Dr Ranil de Silva
Consultant interventional cardiologist
- Curated For : Secondary care doctors & Students & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology
45 Minutes
17 Jun 2024 This talk presented by Dr Ee Ling Heng covers the transcatheter treatments options for valvular heart disease.
Learning Objectives
- Scale of the problem
- Aortic Stenosis and TAVI
- Mitral Regurgitation and Edge-to-edge Repair
- Tricuspid Regurgitation – the next frontier?
Dr Ee Ling Heng Background
Dr Ee Ling Heng, consultant cardiologist in adult congenital heart disease and structural intervention at the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.
She graduated from Imperial College London, with an intercalated BSc in Healthcare Management. She was awarded a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowship and completed her PhD investigating ‘Improved Outcome Prediction in Tetralogy of Fallot’.
Dr Ee Ling Heng has clinical expertise encompassing adult congenital heart disease and general cardiology. She has a special interest in structural and ACHD interventional procedures.
Dr Ee Ling Heng
Adult congenital and structural interventional cardiologist
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Students & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology
40 Minutes
06 Jun 2024 This Grand Round will not only delve into the latest developments in precision medicine but also provide a platform for discussion on its application in managing respiratory diseases.
Professor Anke-Hilse Maitland-Van der Zee Background
Prof. Dr. A.H. Maitland-Van der Zee (Anke-Hilse) was trained as a pharmacist (1999 Groningen University), clinical pharmacologist and epidemiologist. She obtained her PhD in 2003 at Utrecht University and worked as a postdoc at the Human Genetics Center of the University of Texas in Houston, Tx USA from 2003-2005. From 2005-2016 she worked at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology of Utrecht University first as an assistant Professor and since 2012 an associate Professor.
In 2016 she was appointed as a full Professor of precision medicine in respiratory disease at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam.
Professor Anke-Hilse Maitland-Van der Zee
- Curated For : Nurse & Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Students & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 Hour