RESP (Respiratory Expert Speaker and Patient) webinar series
INSPIRE are working with Respiratory Futures and Asthma and Lung UK to produce a series of webinars, featuring respiratory expert speakers and patients. The series aims to highlight aspects of current respiratory care, where care and research is moving and finally an idea of how patients want us to deliver care and their priorities.
Webinar 1 - Professor Nick Hart and Chantal Davies - Wednesday 2nd April, 7-8pm
Click on this text to Hosted by INSPIRE, the webinar will feature expert speaker Professor Nick Hart and patient Chantal Davies.
What they will cover:
• Current COPD management strategies
• Future directions based on the latest research
• Expert patient insights
This session will highlight the value of co-conceiving research ideas with patients, shaping impactful studies and strengthening funding applications.
Don't miss this chance to enhance your research approach and explore the future of COPD care!
This webinar is RCP CPD approved (code: 151134) for those who join the live webinar and complete the feedback form provided.
Meet the Speakers
Professor Nick Hart
Professor Hart is currently Deputy Medical Director of the Heart, Lung and Critical Care Clinical Group. Previously, he directed the critical care response to the COVID-19 pandemic as the primary respiratory physician to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. A leading researcher in chronic respiratory disease and mechanical ventilation, he has established the Lane Fox Clinical Respiratory Physiology Research Centre and PhD programme, as well as serving as Joint Editor-in-Chief of Thorax. He was awarded the BTS Meritorious Service Award (2022) and is the Respiratory Theme Lead for the Guy’s & St Thomas’ NIHR Cardiorespiratory Healthtech Research Centre.
Chantal Davies
Chantal Davies was diagnosed with COPD/emphysema in 2010 following 11 weeks being intubated and a lengthy time in ICU. During her rehabilitation, she joined Professor Hart on his team as a Public Patient representative at Lane Fox, St Thomas' hospital. Chantal describes the experience as meaningful as "it was my way of giving back to the NHS for all the great care I had had, and there was the hope that there would be future treatments for my condition." She is now in her eleventh year as a PPI member, not only for Lane Fox but for other Hospitals and Universities in the UK and has taken part in numerous clinical trials and studies such as March Trial, Delta ICU, EpiC-HPT and NAVA.it.
