Research

Guest lectures

Ventilatory support in motor neurone disease; why, when and how. Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland, Downing College, Cambridge, UK. 26 Apr 1996.

COPD and muscles. European Conference on Respiratory Failure, London, UK. 18 Mar 1997.

Expiratory muscles; diagnosis to treatment. University of Goteborg, Sweden. 22 Jul 1998.

Current developments in COPD. Mediterranean Medical Society, Samos, Greece. 27 Sep 1998.

Ventilation during exercise. European Conference on Respiratory Failure, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK. 18 Mar 1999.

Respiratory muscles for the clinician. European Seminars in Respiratory Medicine, St Moritz, Switzerland. 4 Jul 1999.

Assessment and training of the respiratory muscles. European Respiratory Society, Madrid, Spain. 9 Oct 1999.

Clinical significance of respiratory muscle changes in COPD. European Respiratory Society, Madrid, Spain. 13 Oct 1999.

Physiology.... still relevant?. British Thoracic Society, London, UK. 15 Dec 2000.

Drugs for respiratory muscles. European Respiratory Society, Berlin, Germany. 24 Sep 2001.

Breathlessness seminar for palliative care physicians. Downing College, Cambridge, UK. 13 Jun 2001.

Fatigue and Exercise Limitation. German Pneumonology Society, Bochum, Germany. 14 Mar 2002.

Evaluation of muscle strength. American Thoracic Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 18 May 2002.

Monitoring respiratory muscle function in the ICU. European Respiratory Society, Stockholm, Sweden. 17 Sep 2002.

Value of the apnoea-hypopnea index in obstructive sleep apnoea; pro-con debate. British Sleep Society, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK. 19 Sep 2002.

Respiratory muscle weakness. ARTP Conference, Stratford on Avon, UK. 18 Jan 2003.

Respiratory muscles. Postgraduate Course in Respiratory Biology, Leicester, UK. 30 Jan 2003.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation. University of Chicago, USA. 6 Jun 2003.

Pulmonary rehabilitation; muscle loading versus NIV mediated unloading. European Respiratory Society, Glasgow, UK. 5 Sep 2004.

NIV in COPD; current concepts. 6th National Congress Chinese Respiratory Society, Shenyang, China. 18 Sep 2004.

Update on Respiratory Muscle Testing. 10th International Conference on home mechanical ventilation, Lyon, France. 8 Apr 2005.

ALS: when to begin NIV. 10th International Conference on home mechanical ventilation, Lyon, France. 9 Apr 2005.

Pathophysiology of Weaning Failure :Respiratory Muscle Pump: peripheral function. International Consensus Conference in Intensive Care Medicine, Budapest, Hungary. 28 Apr 2005.