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Plenary Scientific

DAY 2

Chaired by: Professor Mona Bafadhel (London) and Professor Nick Maskell (Bristol)

10:45am  -  How to SELF-BREATHE
Dr Charles Reilly (London)

11:10am  -  Adaptability of the Neutrophil
Dr Emily Watts (Edinburgh)

11:35pm  -  Repairing the lung 
Professor Chris Lucas (Edinburgh)

12:00 pm  -  Improving cancer outcomes through early diagnosis
Dr Anna Bibby (Bristol)

10:45 AM

105 MINUTE SESSION
Plenary Scientific

Learning objectives

  1. To enhance understanding of non-pharmacological approaches to breathlessness self-management, and to introduce SELF-BREATHE, a co-designed digital intervention developed to improve patients’ confidence and capability in managing breathlessness.
  2. To learn about new diagnostic approaches and strategies to increase early detection in lung cancer and mesothelioma.

Speakers

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BIOGRAPHY

Emily Watts is a respiratory physician and Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career development fellow based in the centre for inflammation research at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are in understanding the molecular mechanisms which underpin neutrophilic inflammatory lung disease. Using air pollution as a model of inflammation her fellowship is focused on how neutrophils sense and respond to inflammatory and metabolic cues in the environment and how this drives neutrophil synthetic and inflammatory capacity.
Dr Emily Watts
Dr Emily Watts