Guest Lectures
Pathophysiology of Weaning Failure :Respiratory Muscle Pump: peripheral function, International Consensus Conference in Intensive Care Medicine, Budapest, Hungary, 2005
ALS: when to begin NIV, 10th International Conference on home mechanical ventilation, Lyon, France, 2005
Update on Respiratory Muscle Testing, 10th International Conference on home mechanical ventilation, Lyon, France, 2005
NIV in COPD; current concepts, 6th National Congress Chinese Respiratory Society, Shenyang, China, 2004
Pulmonary rehabilitation; muscle loading versus NIV mediated unloading, European Respiratory Society, Glasgow, UK, 2004
Transcranial magnetic stimulation, University of Chicago, USA, 2003
Respiratory muscles, Postgraduate Course in Respiratory Biology, Leicester, UK, 2003
Respiratory muscle weakness, ARTP Conference, Stratford on Avon, UK, 2003
Value of the apnoea-hypopnea index in obstructive sleep apnoea; pro-con debate, British Sleep Society, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK, 2002
Monitoring respiratory muscle function in the ICU, European Respiratory Society, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002
Evaluation of muscle strength, American Thoracic Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2002
Fatigue and Exercise Limitation, German Pneumonology Society, Bochum, Germany, 2002
Drugs for respiratory muscles, European Respiratory Society, Berlin, Germany, 2001
Breathlessness seminar for palliative care physicians, Downing College, Cambridge, UK, 2001
Physiology.... still relevant?, British Thoracic Society, London, UK, 2000
Clinical significance of respiratory muscle changes in COPD, European Respiratory Society, Madrid, Spain, 1999
Assessment and training of the respiratory muscles, European Respiratory Society, Madrid, Spain, 1999
Respiratory muscles for the clinician, European Seminars in Respiratory Medicine, St Moritz, Switzerland, 1999
Ventilation during exercise, European Conference on Respiratory Failure, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK, 1999
Current developments in COPD, Mediterranean Medical Society, Samos, Greece, 1998
Expiratory muscles; diagnosis to treatment, University of Goteborg, Sweden, 1998
COPD and muscles, European Conference on Respiratory Failure, London, UK, 1997
Ventilatory support in motor neurone disease; why, when and how, Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland, Downing College, Cambridge, UK, 1996