Expert Talks - RB&HH Education

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
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07 Feb 2022

Our consultant respiratory physician, Dr Vasilis Kouranos, provides an overview on how to treat and monitor patients presenting sarcoidosis.

Dr Vasilis Kouranos Dr Vasilis Kouranos Consultant respiratory physician
03 Feb 2022

Professor Sébastien Gagneux provides an overview of tuberculosis (TB), delving into the reasons on how TB becomes resistant in individuals.

Professor Sébastien Gagneux Professor of Infection Biology
27 Jan 2022

Professor Andrew Menzies-Gow discusses maintenance of oral corticosteroids for severe eosinophilic asthma, overviewing the PONENTE study.

Professor Andrew Menzies-Gow Consultant respiratory physician, director of lung division
26 Jan 2022

Our consultant cardiothoracic radiologist, Dr Tarun Mittal looks at appropriate uses of imaging in patients with stable chest pain in cardiac CT, stress imaging, etc as per NICE recommendations.

Dr Tarun Mittal Dr Tarun Mittal Consultant cardiothoracic radiologist
20 Jan 2022

This talk discusses pulmonary hypertension in advanced lung diseases, focusing on the evolving treatment options in continual clinical trials.

 

Professor Aaron Waxman Professor of Medicine
20 Jan 2022

This talk provides an overview on ARDS, ECMO and COVID-19 and the effects of severe respiratory failure on patient outcomes.

Professor Suveer Singh Consultant in respiratory medicine
18 Jan 2022

Dr Antonis Pantazis covers the importance of having a holistic approach to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Dr Antonis Pantazis Dr Antonis Pantazis Consultant cardiologist
13 Jan 2022

This talk focuses on the topic of recurrent respiratory tract infections.

Dr Jose Dr Ricardo José Consultant in respiratory medicine
13 Jan 2022

Dr Adam Laing discusses how his research team has used novel high-throughput flow cytometry to dissect clinical heterogeneity to understand the immune signature of COVID-19 during acute infection and the potential applicability to other cardiorespiratory.

Dr Adam Laing Chief Scientific Officer at melio and research associate at King’s College London.
10 Dec 2021

This talk provides an overview on the evidence base for heart failure; how should we diagnose, and what does good treatment look like?

Dr Martin Cowie Professor Martin Cowie Consultant cardiologist
03 Dec 2021

This talk provides an overview on diagnosis, investigation and treatment of patients presenting with palpitation.

Dr David Gareth Jones Consultant cardiologist, Cath Lab director at Harefield Hospital
01 Dec 2021

This talk covers the importance of lipid management in both primary and secondary prevention.

Mrs Alison Pottle Nurse Consultant in Cardiology