IRISH THORACIC SOCIETY ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING 2009
SYMPOSIA
Irish Thoracic Society Guest Lecture
Tubercular Challenges
Dr Joseph Keane MD, BSc, MRCPI, MRCP(UK), Associate Professor of Medicine,
Consultant Respiratory Physician, St James's Hospital, (CResT) Dublin.
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant by Boehringer Ingelheim
The Diagnosis of TB infection in the 21st Century
Professor Ajit Lalvani MA, DM, FRCP, Chair of Infectious Diseases,
Director, Tuberculosis Research Unit, Department of Respiratory Medicine,
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
Pathogenesis of Sarcoidosis: Role of Mycobacteria
Dr David R. Moller, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine,
John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland USA.
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant byAstra Zeneca
Driving Risk and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
Dr Alan Mulgrew, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Bons Secours Hospital, Tralee, Co Kerry.
Is Restless Legs Syndrome a Sleep Disorder?
Dr Shaun T. O'Keffe, Consultant in Geriatric & General Medicine, Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway.
To be 'seized by somnolence' - the science of narcolepsy
Dr Paul Reading, Consultant Neurologist, The James Cook University Hospital Middlesbrough TS4 3BW
Sleep Apnoea and Stroke: Chicken or Egg Revisited
Prof G. J. Gibson, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne;
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne ,UK.
Supported by unrestricted educational grants by: Cephalon Pharma (Ireland) Ltd and UCB Pharma Ireland Ltd
Dr Joseph Keane MD, BSc, MRCPI, MRCP(UK)
Joseph Keane is Associate Professor of Medicine and Consultant Respiratory Physician, in St. James’s Hospital and Trinity College Dublin. He completed clinical and research post-doctoral fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, where he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine, before returning to Ireland. His research interests include the host immune response to tuberculosis and lung cancer. He is also the director of the TB service in St. James’s, which is the designated supra-regional center for tuberculosis. The Health Research Board, Science Foundation Ireland, and the Royal City of Dublin Hospital Trust fund Dr. Keane’s research.
Professor Ajit Lalvani MA, MBBS, DM, FRCP
Professor Lalvani is Chair of Infectious Diseases and Wellcome Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He qualified in medicine from the Universities of Oxford and London and trained in general internal medicine and infectious diseases in London, Cambridge, Oxford and Basel. He undertook his doctoral thesis, Immunity to Intracellular Pathogens, as an MRC Clinical Training Fellow at Oxford University from 1993 and from 1997 was Clinical Lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He has been a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow since 2001. Since his recruitment from Oxford to Imperial in 2007 his research program has integrated with Britain’s largest clinical TB service at Imperial, where he leads the multi-disciplinary Tuberculosis Research Unit.
His research has shaped TB control policy internationally and provided fundamental insights into immunity to intracellular pathogens and the action of TB and malaria vaccines. The FDA-approved, CDC-endorsed interferon-gamma blood test (ELISpot, T-SPOT.TB) which he invented and validated is the first advance in diagnosis of latent TB in 100-years and now forms the basis of new national guidelines for TB screening and prevention throughout the world. His ongoing research program probes the immunologic and genetic factors that shape the natural history and clinical outcomes of TB infection, whilst maintaining a strong translational theme by developing and validating novel biomarkers of infection, disease and treatment response.
He has raised over $18 million in competitive peer-reviewed research grants and has published over 80 papers, 12 of which have each been cited over 100 times. Professor Lalvani has received several awards in recognition of his contribution to global tuberculosis control, including the Scientific Prize of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2005 and the Royal College of Physicians Weber-Parkes Medal 2008. In 2009 he was appointed to the UK National Institute of Health Research College of Senior Investigators in recognition of his world-leading patient-focused research.
Dr David R Moller MD
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Dr Paul Reading, Consultant Neurologist
Dr Paul Reading completed his medical training at Cambridge and London before returning to Cambridge to undertake a PhD in the behavioural assessment of embryonic neural grafts in models of Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases. Involvement in the neurobiology of reticular activating systems fuelled a later clinical and academic interest in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy. He completed his neurological training in Edinburgh and Newcastle before recently moving to the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough to take up a new neurology post. He has been running a weekly (now bi-weekly) Neurology Sleep Clinic for 9 years, attracting referrals from the Northern region and beyond. His particular interests are narcolepsy, abnormal sleep in neurodegenerative disease (particularly parkinsonian syndromes) and parasomnias. He is Treasurer of the British Sleep Society, the largest body in the UK for professionals involved in sleep medicine and science, having been its secretary for 4 years.
Prof G. J. Gibson, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Consultant Respiratory Physician
John Gibson is Emeritus Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Newcastle University.
He graduated from the University of London (Guy’s Hospital) as BSc in Physiology and MB BS.
His postgraduate training was mainly at the Hammersmith Hospital and Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London and at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His clinical and research interests have ranged broadly, with particular emphasis on clinical respiratory physiology, respiratory muscle weakness and obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. He has published widely on these and other topics. He is the author of “Clinical Tests of Respiratory Function” (3rd ed 2009), joint editor of the postgraduate textbook, “Respiratory Medicine” (3rd ed 2003) and of the “European Lung White Book” (2003).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh and he has been at various times Hon Secretary, Chairman and President of the British Thoracic Society and President of the European Respiratory Society.
