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ASO Webinar: Obesity and Respiratory disease
About This Webinar
This webinar will consider and understand the burden, pathophysiology, assessment and treatment of respiratory disease in people living with obesity. Following the talks from invited speakers, there will be a panel discussion with a Q&A session facilitated by the Chair, that will allow webinar attendees to ask the panel questions.
The webinar is a continuation of the highly successful ASO webinar series that started shortly after the initial outbreak of Covid-19 and is designed to support the ASO membership and others interested in obesity and weight management.
Novo Nordisk has provided sponsorship to the Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO) to fully fund all costs for the development of this webinar, including creation, organisation, production and administration. Novo Nordisk has had no influence on the content and full editorial control remains the sole responsibility of ASO. None of the speakers have received a fee for their participation in this webinar, and ASO has been fully responsible for engaging with participants.
Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Free
Featured Presenters
Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Endocrinology and Bariatric Medicine
Dr Georgios K Dimitriadis is a Consultant in Endocrinology and Obesity Medicine at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Senior Lecturer in the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences at King's.
He was awarded an MSc on Reproductive Endocrinology from the University of Athens for his work on the "effects of testosterone replacement therapy on energy expenditure of hypogonadal men". He was also awarded an MSc on Obesity and related comorbidities from Karolinska Institute for his work on the "effect of bariatric surgery on Natural Killer cell activity in adult humans". His PhD thesis for the University of Warwick is on the "cardioprotective effects of medical and surgical interventions for the management of obesity".
Georgios is the lead physician for Tier 4 ASO/EASO COM Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Services across KCH, PRUH and South Sites. His areas of research interest involve clinical and preclinical studies on medical, endoscopic and surgical interventions for the management of obesity and related disorders (prediabetes, PCOS, CVD, NAFLD/NASH). Georgios is an investigator in several landmark obesity and T2DM studies (SCALE, LEADER, EXSCEL, STEP-1, DUAL-VIII, SUSTAIN 6 &10, AMYLIN, SELECT, SOUL and others).
He has received several awards and scholarships from SfE-BES, UEMS, Novo Nordisk UK Research Foundation and recently NIHR South London CRN Strategic "Green Shoots" Investigator award in recognition of his clinical research outcomes. Dr Dimitriadis has graduated the 3rd European Obesity Academy (Karolinska/J&J) and UK 1st Emerging Obesity Leaders Programme (NN/ASO). He is a SCOPE and EASO UK National Fellow. He is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity and RCP advisory group on the new guideline for obesity management.
He was awarded an MSc on Reproductive Endocrinology from the University of Athens for his work on the "effects of testosterone replacement therapy on energy expenditure of hypogonadal men". He was also awarded an MSc on Obesity and related comorbidities from Karolinska Institute for his work on the "effect of bariatric surgery on Natural Killer cell activity in adult humans". His PhD thesis for the University of Warwick is on the "cardioprotective effects of medical and surgical interventions for the management of obesity".
Georgios is the lead physician for Tier 4 ASO/EASO COM Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Services across KCH, PRUH and South Sites. His areas of research interest involve clinical and preclinical studies on medical, endoscopic and surgical interventions for the management of obesity and related disorders (prediabetes, PCOS, CVD, NAFLD/NASH). Georgios is an investigator in several landmark obesity and T2DM studies (SCALE, LEADER, EXSCEL, STEP-1, DUAL-VIII, SUSTAIN 6 &10, AMYLIN, SELECT, SOUL and others).
He has received several awards and scholarships from SfE-BES, UEMS, Novo Nordisk UK Research Foundation and recently NIHR South London CRN Strategic "Green Shoots" Investigator award in recognition of his clinical research outcomes. Dr Dimitriadis has graduated the 3rd European Obesity Academy (Karolinska/J&J) and UK 1st Emerging Obesity Leaders Programme (NN/ASO). He is a SCOPE and EASO UK National Fellow. He is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity and RCP advisory group on the new guideline for obesity management.
Consultant Respiratory Physician/ Reader in Respiratory Medicine
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Lane Fox Unit, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London
Reader in Respiratory Medicine, Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King’s College London
Dr Murphy was appointed a consultant at the Lane Fox Respiratory Unit, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in 2014 and was recently appointed clinical lead for the service in 2020. The Lane Fox Unit is an internationally recognised centre for weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation and management of home mechanical ventilation. He completed a PhD studying respiratory physiology in acute and chronic respiratory failure secondary to COPD and obesity and was appointed a reader in respiratory medicine at King’s College London in 2019. He has presented primary research data at international conferences and has been awarded travel grants by both the European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society. His research interests involve respiratory physiology and respiratory support in acute and chronic respiratory failure which has led to publications of physiological and clinical trial data in leading respiratory and general medicine journals. He has contributed to both national and international guidelines in the field of management of respiratory complications of sickle cell and obesity related respiratory failure.
Reader in Respiratory Medicine, Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King’s College London
Dr Murphy was appointed a consultant at the Lane Fox Respiratory Unit, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in 2014 and was recently appointed clinical lead for the service in 2020. The Lane Fox Unit is an internationally recognised centre for weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation and management of home mechanical ventilation. He completed a PhD studying respiratory physiology in acute and chronic respiratory failure secondary to COPD and obesity and was appointed a reader in respiratory medicine at King’s College London in 2019. He has presented primary research data at international conferences and has been awarded travel grants by both the European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society. His research interests involve respiratory physiology and respiratory support in acute and chronic respiratory failure which has led to publications of physiological and clinical trial data in leading respiratory and general medicine journals. He has contributed to both national and international guidelines in the field of management of respiratory complications of sickle cell and obesity related respiratory failure.
Academic Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine
Tom Ward is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Leicester with an interest in COPD, exercise physiology, pulmonary rehabilitation and chronic care. His PhD at Loughborough University investigated the role of novel exercise modalities for people with COPD. He currently leads an ARC East Midlands grant investigating pulmonary rehabilitation with component network meta-analysis and is principle investigator for a trial of blood flow restricted exercise in COPD. He sits on the British Thoracic Society Council and Science and Research Committee, the East Midlands Thoracic Society Committee and is treasurer for the East Midlands Trainee research network.
Consultant Anaesthetist
Dr Branavan Retnasingham has been a consultant anaesthetist at King’s College Hospital for 8 years having completed his postgraduate training in Anaesthetics largely at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College Hospital.
He has advanced training/fellowships in Liver Transplant Anaesthesia (KCH 2012), Obstetric Anaesthesia (Vancouver 2013) and Difficult Airway Management (KCH 2014) and it was during the latter that he developed an interest and expanded his clinical exposure to bariatric anaesthesia. He joined the committee for the Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia in 2021.
He has advanced training/fellowships in Liver Transplant Anaesthesia (KCH 2012), Obstetric Anaesthesia (Vancouver 2013) and Difficult Airway Management (KCH 2014) and it was during the latter that he developed an interest and expanded his clinical exposure to bariatric anaesthesia. He joined the committee for the Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia in 2021.
Physician and obesity researcher with a special interest in body composition, respiratory function, and cardiometabolic health
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