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
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- Curated For : Nurse & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 hour
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Professor Bernard Prendergast
Consultant cardiologist at St Thomas' Hospital
- Curated For : Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiac surgery
1 hour
17 Feb 2022 
Professor Jane Davies
Consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine
Professor Nicholas Simmonds
Associate director and consultant physician of Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre at Royal Brompton Hospital.
- Curated For : Radiographers / technologists & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Paediatrics & Respiratory medicine
1 hour
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Dr Vasilis Kouranos
Consultant respiratory physician
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Students & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology
55 Minutes
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Professor Sébastien Gagneux
Professor of Infection Biology
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 Hour
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Professor Andrew Menzies-Gow
Consultant respiratory physician, director of lung division
- Curated For : Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
45 minutes
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Dr Tarun Mittal
Consultant cardiothoracic radiologist
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Radiographers / technologists & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology & Radiology
1 hour 5 minutes
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Professor Aaron Waxman
Professor of Medicine
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
50 minutes
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Professor Suveer Singh
Consultant in respiratory medicine
- Curated For : Nurse & Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
58 minutes
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Dr Antonis Pantazis
Consultant cardiologist
- Curated For : Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology
1 hour
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Dr Ricardo José
Consultant in respiratory medicine
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 hour
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Dr Adam Laing
Chief Scientific Officer at melio and research associate at King’s College London.
- Curated For : Radiographers / technologists & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology & Respiratory medicine
58 minutes