How can health professionals support patients in early recognition of exacerbations?
What does best-practice exacerbation management look like in COPD or bronchiectasis….or both?
How can the appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing be improved?
Join us for this one-hour panel discussion to explore these questions….and your own!
Respiratory specialists A/Prof Lucy Morgan and Dr Belinda Cochrane form our clinical expert panel this live Lung Learning event, facilitated by Ms. Colleen McGoldrick, Nurse Practitioner in Chronic Disease Management. Together they will address key considerations for primary care health professionals in the diagnosis and management of exacerbations in both COPD and bronchiectasis and provide practical strategies for considering exacerbation risk, differentiating exacerbation symptoms and supporting post-exacerbation.
You are welcomed to submit your questions during registration or ask the live event via our viirtual, interactive platform.
This event is supported by an independent medical education grant from AstraZeneca.
Speakers:
Associate Professor Lucy Morgan
Adult respiratory and sleep physician, Chair of the Australasian Bronchiectasis Consortium
Director of Research for the Nepean Lung Cancer Group, Director of Lung Foundation Australia
Associate Professor Lucy Morgan is an adult respiratory and sleep physician. Lucy is a proud graduate of the University of Newcastle, trained at Concord Hospital and completed a PhD in chronic lung disease at the University of Sydney.
Her clinical practice covers a wide range of lung problems including airways diseases (asthma and COPD, bronchiectasis), pulmonary fibrosis, lung infections and lung cancer. Lucy is committed to a multidisciplinary approach to respiratory health care and has strong links to other clinicians.
Lucy has academic appointments at Macquarie University and Sydney University with a strong interest in teaching and training junior doctors and lung researchers throughout the Macquarie University Hospital, Nepean Hospital and Concord Hospital Clinical Schools. Lucy has a very active clinical research portfolio. She is chair of the Australasian Bronchiectasis Consortium and the clinical lead for the Australian Bronchiectasis Registry project. She is currently the present of the NSW TSANZ, is a Director of Lung Foundation Australia, a member of the Australian Lung Cancer Trials Group and Director of Research for the Nepean Lung Cancer Group. She is widely published and an invited speaker at National and International conferences.
Dr Belinda Cochrane
Respiratory & Sleep Medicine Physician,
Camden & Campbelltown Hospitals
Dr Belinda Cochrane is a Respiratory & Sleep Medicine Staff Specialist at Camden and Campbelltown Hospitals in Sydney. She is an SME reviewer for the COPD-X Guidelines Committee for cardiology related respiratory papers, and a member of the Statewide Respiratory Network in New South Wales. Dr Cochrane is a Conjoint Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney. Her research interests include COPD and its relationship with cardiac disease, breathlessness and inhaler device capability.
Mrs Colleen Mcgoldrick (Moderator)
Master of Nurse Practitioner in Chronic Disease Management
Colleen’s nursing career has spanned 32 years in the UK and Australia. She became a Nurse Practitioner in 2008 and transitioned into academia in 2014.
Her role involves teaching nursing students across the 3 year curriculum, writing and designing units, assessing in clinical units and managing all levels of student nurses.
Collaboration with industry partners and hospital and healthcare service providers is of utmost importance in Colleen’s role to maintain credence. Colleen’s research interests are in chronic illness. COPD, primary care, and teaching.
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