17Th & 18Th June 2021 Speakers' Details and Presentation Summaries
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th th SUMMER MEETING ONLINE – 17 & 18 June 2021 Speakers’ Details and Presentation Summaries The following details are in programme order. Use the PDF search button to quickly find a session or speaker. OPEN SESSION – NATIONAL ASTHMA AND COPD AUDIT PROGRAMME Thursday 17th June: 08:00-09:00 Dr James Calvert qualified in Medicine from Oxford Session aims and overview University in 1992. He studied Public Health as a 1) To summarise the main findings of the 2020/21 Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University before NACAP reports. completing his PhD in Asthma Epidemiology in South 2) To outline the QI support opportunities offered by Africa and London. NACAP to clinical and audit teams. He was a Consultant Respiratory Specialist in Bristol from 2006-2021. He is now a Respiratory Consultant Professor Roberts will present a summary of key and Medical Director of Aneurin Bevan University reported findings from across the audits from the last Health Board in Wales. 12 months, highlighting areas for further James has worked with colleagues in the South West improvement. He will speak about the impact of and at NHS England to improve access to integrated COVID-19 on standards of care and on audit services for respiratory patients. He has Chaired the participation, along with plans to improve automated British Thoracic Society (BTS) Professional and extraction of NACAP data. Organisational Standards Committee and has been Dr Calvert will talk about the QI programme to be the BTS National Audit Lead. He has a longstanding launched this year. interest in quality improvement in health care and has A discussion will follow around ideas for improving worked with the BTS, NHS Improving Value, the Royal NACAP support to clinical and audit teams. College of Physicians (RCP) and the University of Bristol in this field. He was National Specialty Advisor for Severe Asthma from 2017-2020 and continues to lead the National Asthma Audit at the Royal College of Physicians. Professor Mike Roberts is the Clinical Director of the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme, for the Royal College of Physicians, and has led national audit in this field since 2001. He has held consultant posts with Barts Health, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Essex Partnership University Trust. He is Managing Director of UCL Partners Academic Health Science System and Deputy Director of the NIHR North Thames Applied Health Research Collaboration. Speakers’ Details & Presentation Summaries th th SUMMER MEETING ONLINE – 17 & 18 June 2021 Speakers’ Details and Presentation Summaries The following details are in programme order. Use the PDF search button to quickly find a session or speaker. SYMPOSIUM – YEAR IN REVIEW Thursday 17th June: 09:30-11:00 Dr Alanna Hare is a Consultant in Sleep and Pulmonary infection and COVID-19 Respiratory Failure at the Royal Brompton Hospital in This session will provide an overview of developments London. She graduated from Selwyn College, in respiratory infections over the previous 12 to 18 University of Cambridge in 1999, and completed her months, including those in COVID-19 and non- postgraduate training at Imperial College London in pandemic infections. 2002. She is Chair of the British Thoracic Society Education Dr Martin Allen is a Respiratory Physician at and Training Committee and Treasurer of the British University Hospital of North Staffordshire. Sleep Society. She sits on the Board of the Sleep He has interests in a variety of respiratory diseases Council. She was made Honorary Clinical Senior including COPD, ventilatory support / weaning and Lecturer at NHLI 2018. sleep medicine, originating from his research into sleep and physiological changes. Dr John Park is a Consultant at Oxford Universities He has fulfilled a variety of management and NHS Foundation Trust and is lead for Lung Cancer. He transformational roles within the hospital, including trained in the London and Oxford Deaneries. He CD and Medicine Divisional Head. completed a PhD in pulmonary vascular and structural He holds a variety of national roles including: sitting remodelling at Imperial College London, National on the British Thoracic Society Board, Chair of the Heart and Lung Institute. John is Honorary Treasurer Respiratory EWG on Coding, sits on the Respiratory of the BTS having previously been Chair of the BTS CRG, contributes to the Respiratory Long-Term Plan, Education and Training Committee. leading on pneumonia, works with the AHSN, is the GIRFT National Clinical Lead for Respiratory Medicine Dr David Connell a Consultant Physician in Respiratory and the NSA for physiological measurement. Medicine at NHS Tayside with clinical interests incorporating complex lung infections, particularly GIRFT – themes and outcomes: a review so far tuberculosis, chronic pulmonary aspergillosis, and The objectives of this presentation are to: non-tuberculous mycobacteria. He also works in - review the GIRFT methodology; medical high dependency and acute medicine, and - discuss methods of data extraction and data flow; has interests in the delivery of care in both chronic - highlight variations in care across English hospitals and acute respiratory infections, including influenza, and some of the reasons; and more recently COVID-19. He was the Clinical Lead - highlight recommendations to improve care, for Winter Planning during the pandemic winter of including COVID; 2020-21 at NHS Tayside, and is Chair of the Pulmonary - discuss opportunities for system working. Infection Specialist Advisory Group of the British Thoracic Society. During the first year of the pandemic, he was a co-opted member of the UK New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG). Speakers’ Details & Presentation Summaries th th SUMMER MEETING ONLINE – 17 & 18 June 2021 Speakers’ Details and Presentation Summaries The following details are in programme order. Use the PDF search button to quickly find a session or speaker. SYMPOSIUM – MDT EXPERTISE: BEYOND THE DRUGS Thursday 17th June: 09:30-11:00 had on levels of physical activity in COPD patients will be Alison Armstrong, Nurse Consultant (Long Term Ventilation) made. Newcastle upon Tyne. Alison is the Nurse Consultant within the regional North-East Jennifer Murphy is a highly specialist Speech and Language Assisted Ventilation Service. Therapist for laryngeal disorders, based at Newcastle upon She represents nursing on a number of groups. She has a Tyne Hospitals. She is passionate about improving care for national role as Co-chair for the BTS Nurse Specialist Advisory patients with upper airway disorders, through supporting Group, as well as being an active member on their Education earlier identification, and developing interventions and and Training Committee. services to optimise patient care. She is an Honorary Alison is the host of the Specialists in Long-term Ventilation at Lecturer at Newcastle University and over the last three years Home (SiLVaH) National Network, which is a non-medical has been awarded three academic grants. This has enabled group for those working in the support of patients on home her to complete a Master’s in Public Health and Health Service mechanical ventilation. Research at Newcastle University, host several patient Alison has an MSc in Practice Development, and her main engagement research groups, and commence the early interest lies in assuring good quality of life for her complex development work of a complex intervention for inducible client group. laryngeal obstruction. Dr Karen Heslop-Marshall is a Nurse Consultant working in The larynx: friend or foe? Newcastle upon Tyne. Karen’s main area of expertise is the This session will explore the role of the larynx, for voice, psychological impact of respiratory disease. Karen completed breathing and beyond. It aims to promote early identification a postgraduate diploma in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) of laryngeal disorders within the respiratory population; and in 2003 and developed a CBT treatment for patients with provide an insight into different treatment options. The respiratory problems who face psychological difficulties. Karen presentation will include an overview of laryngeal anatomy completed a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) PhD and physiology, with examples of ‘normal’ and disordered Clinical Academic Training Research Fellowship from 2011 to laryngeal physiology and function. Videos of laryngeal 2016. Her PhD research was the largest RCT into CBT for COPD examinations will be shown to demonstrate how Speech and patients who experience anxiety and depression. Karen was a Language Therapists differentially diagnose laryngeal co-applicant of the NIHR TANDEM HTA Study using CBT and disorders, and showcase what impact laryngeal retraining pulmonary rehabilitation. exercises have upon the larynx. Matthew Armstrong is a post-doctoral research fellow Rachael Moses is a Consultant Respiratory Physiotherapist working at the University of Northumbria Newcastle. He with an expert background in complex weaning, long term recently completed his PhD that investigated the feasibility, ventilation, airway clearance and advanced care planning. acceptability, and efficacy of a physical activity behavioural Rachael is fortunate to sit on a number of national modification intervention alongside pulmonary rehabilitation organisations, including the Chartered Society of and cognitive behavioural therapy in COPD patients with low Physiotherapy Council and Honorary Student President, NHSE baseline physical activity levels. Patient Safety Group,