@AlphaCopdDoc

Professor & Consultant Respiratory Med, @PSRC_Midlands director. @NRAPaudit #QI lead. @AlphaFriend board member. Clinical & research #AATD #COPD.

 University of Birmingham
Joined January 2016
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Trip up north to learn with @NIHRresearch workforcevoices.org about maternity workforce, general medical training evaluation, neighbourhood working and more, on a campus built on the site of an old brewery
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Rohit Loomba@DrLoomba12 Dec 2025
Great collaborative effort @AmerGastroAssn @AASLDPresident @EASLnews Multi-Society Expert Panel Consensus Guidance Regarding Clinical Assessment and Clinical Trial Endpoints in Adults with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency-Associated Liver Disease (AATD-LD) gastrojournal.org/article/S0…
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📢One week left to apply for @NRAPaudit healthcare improvement clinical fellow. @ARNS_UK @BTSrespiratory @PRaccreditation For further information and how to apply visit: rcp.current-vacancies.com/Jo…
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PeerVoice@PeerVoice4 Nov 2025
Missed our recent #AATD live event from Amsterdam? Watch the onDemand video to get insights on proactive screening, cross-specialty collaboration, and the current treatment landscape. #PeerVoice #meded #AATD #pulmonology #hepatology peervoice.com/XSX?PromoCode=…
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The A1F team kicked off #Alpha1Awareness Month and the A1F Virtual Walk 2025 together at our Coral Gables office! The energy is high and we are ready for a month of awareness, advocacy, and community. Join us and be part of the movement: alpha1.org/november-is-alpha…
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Here’s a reminder of the #WMPAMatMed programme happening at UHCW next month Features talks on chest pain, headache and endocrine emergencies, plus research abstracts, case reports and posters in adult general internal medicine Register here: millbrook-events.co.uk/event…
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Great day with @NIHRPSRCs discussing safety equity. Loved the live graphics summarising talks (@PSRC_Midlands highlights 👇🏻) and the summary of maternal care pathway through an equity lens
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Epigenome-Wide Analysis Identifies Pollution-Sensitive Loci in Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease PM2.5 and its constituents are associated with differential DNA methylation in the blood of patients with fibrotic ILD @atscommunity 🔗 tinyurl.com/2rk6wwmn
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Genetic risk factors for disease susceptibility differ from those for progression/survival nature.com/articles/s41588-0…

Limited overlap between genetic effects on disease susceptibility and disease survival

Nature Genetics - Systematic comparison of genome-wide association results for disease risk and disease-specific mortality for nine common diseases across seven biobanks finds limited overlap...

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Great talk on microplastics & lung health #ERSCongress2025 Key messages - more ingestion from air than gut, thus most deposition in the lung. Links to #COPD & ILD. The type of plastic matters
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Methods to prevent respiratory disease and it's impacts, from #airquality interventions, case finding, lifestyle & more - summarised by @WHO in this report focussed on Europe #ERSCongress2025 who.int/europe/publications/…

Chronic respiratory diseases in the WHO European Region

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Shifting thinking toward prevention as the most cost-effective strategy in #copd Sounds sensible but not easy in many health systems #ERSCongress2025
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Dupilumab for ABPA - signals for FEV1, possibly exacerbations, & QOL #ERSCongress2025
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Join us for our next SafetyNet webinar: Understanding and measuring emergency doctors’ tolerance of clinical uncertainty on Wednesday 12 November 🔗Book your place: psrc-network.nihr.ac.uk/2025…... @drwilliamlea @NIHRPSRCs #emergencymedicine
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ALIENTO study of Astegolimab, targeting IL33 in #COPD. Marginal effect on AECOPD, direction same as (negative) ARNASA study. Maybe too broad/late population? #ERSCongress2025
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Started #ERSCongress2025 with an excellent NTM session. Take homes: many new routes to Rx, CFTR & GM-CSF clinical data promising. BACES score aids prognostication
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"We" need clinical trials & translational research, but the urgent gap is in health services & implementation science. We know much of what works; the challenge is delivering it equitably, affordably, and sustainably. Research must meet reality.
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Treatable traits! New! We compare inflammation, microbiome, rheology and mucins in asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, CF and controls. Huge overlap in biology but clear neutrophilic and T2 endotypes in all diseases! Endotypes>disease labels @accpchest journal.chestnet.org/article…
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Original research shows that preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm) was associated with transition into airway obstruction corresponding to #COPD within one decade. Read more in the August issue of the journal CHEST®: hubs.la/Q03DXNyt0 #MedEd #JournalCHEST
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🚑 Maximising Ambulance Referrals into virtual wards via Single Point of Access (SPOA). Dr Shelagh O’Riordan will be in conversation with ambulance & A&E colleagues exploring streamlining ambulance referrals into virtual care. 📅 Register: ow.ly/rL0X50WFieM @jupiterhouse1
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