Course Category: Expert Talk

This talks by Professor Nicholas Hopkinson covers COPD as a structural violence.

PROFESSOR NICHOLAS HOPKINSON BACKGROUND

Nicholas Hopkinson is professor of respiratory medicine at Imperial College and an honorary consultant physician at Royal Brompton Hospital. He qualified in medicine at Cambridge University and the London Hospital Medical College and went on to train in respiratory and general internal medicine at St George’s Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital.

Professor Hopkinson is clinical lead for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at Royal Brompton Hospital. This includes systematic evaluation of patients within a multidisciplinary team and addressing issues such as: hypoxia, recurrent exacerbations, alpha one antitrypsin deficiency, early onset disease.

His major research interest looks at the causes of exercise limitation in patients with COPD, and his publications have looked at the:

1. Effect of pulmonary rehabilitation
2. Influence of genetic polymorphisms
3. The effect of dietary nitrate supplementation
4. Lung volume reduction techniques for emphysema
5. Singing for lung health as an approach to relieve breathlessness in COPD and other conditions.

Working with the NW London Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research (CLAHRC), Professor Hopkinson has developed a more systematic Care Bundle for COPD patients as they are discharged. He has published work on tobacco uptake among children and in support of tobacco control measures, such as standardised packaging and smoke-free legislation.

Professor Hopkinson’s work has been funded by the NIHR, Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, European Union, British Lung Foundation, and Moulton Foundation.

This talk by Dr Rigby covers the significance of chest pain in children and adolescents.

Dr Rigby explains how chest pain is common in children and adolescent ages 8 to 18. This leads to the importance of aetiology which is often evident when taking a detailed history of the patient.

The talk explains the most common type of chest pain and next steps to take when dealing with patients with those symptoms.

DR MICHAEL RIGBY BACKGROUND

Dr Michael Rigby is a consultant paediatric cardiologist at Royal Brompton Hospital, specialising in interventional cardiac catheterisation in congenital heart disease in children and young adults.

Prior to this role, Dr Rigby trained at the Killingbeck Hospital in Leeds, the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

This talk by Dr Jamilah Meghji covers “the intersection of TB and Chronic Lung Diseases in LMIC”

DR JAMILAH MEGHJI BACKGROUND

Dr Jamilah Meghji is a Consultant Respiratory Physician in Cambridge, UK, with a special interest in tuberculosis and respiratory infection. Her research has used mixed methods to describe the burden and impact of post-TB lung disease on the lives and livelihoods of TB survivors in East Africa. She has an interest in the diagnosis and management of TB co-morbidities, including chronic respiratory diseases, within TB services in low-resource settings.

This talk by Dr James Allinson provides an overview of how early childhood respiratory infections are linked to adult respiratory disease.

DR JAMES ALLINSTON BACKGROUND

Dr Allinson is a consultant respiratory physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, working in the fields of  chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and respiratory failure.

Dr Allinson graduated in 2002 from St Peter’s College, University of Oxford and completed his postgraduate training at Oriel College, University of Oxford, in 2005. He trained in respiratory and general medicine in London and was awarded a PhD from Imperial College London in 2018.

Dr Allinson’s research interests include how airways disease develops across life and how to identify the early stages of COPD development. His research also addresses how to improve the management of already established COPD. Dr Allinson is the primary investigator on an Asthma + Lung UK Project Grant.

This talk by Parris William focuses on “why we need to enmbed smoking cessation services into targeted lung health checks”.

This talk covers the topic of primary care and the cardiac patient. This is a broad subject which Professor Rosen has narrowed down to cover the below 5 topic.

1. Primary prevention of coronary disease
2. Secondary prevention of coronary artery disease
3. Management of hypertension in primary care
4. Antipltelet therapy
5. What’s new in heart failure

PROFESSOR STUART ROSEN BACKGROUND

Professor Stuart Rosen is a consultant cardiologist who along with Dr Lyon and Dr Sharma set up the UK’s first cardio-oncology unit at Royal Brompton Hospital.

The unit provides bespoke care for those patients who have developed cardiac problems or are at risk of cardiotoxicity as a result of their cancer treatment.

Professor Rosen is passionate about education and teaching his peers on cardiology where he speaks on topics such as cardiac pain, heart failure and neurocardiology.

Professor Stuart Rosen is a consultant cardiologist who specialises in treating difficult hypertension, syncope (fainting), heart failure and all aspects of general adult cardiology.
His knowledge and expertise in technical skills include stress echo, ultrafiltration for decompensated heart failure, tilt testing and autonomic assessment and transoesophageal echocardiography