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.