Physiotherapist and Research Fellow at the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre.
Joined May 2020
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INSIDE LOOK 👀 Read more of the latest research from the upcoming issue (August 8): Original research suggests that menthol inhalation may be useful for management of exertional dyspnea in selected patients with #COPD. hubs.la/Q03B889X0
#MedEd #JournalCHEST
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🥇We have been awarded the prestigious Athena Swan Gold Award!
This award reflects our commitment to advancing gender equality, fostering an inclusive culture, and driving meaningful change across all areas of our School and wider community: hyms.ac.uk/about/news/2025/a…
@AdvanceHE
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Just published:
To facilitate people with #COPD accepting a referral to #Pulmonaryrehab, healthcare professionals needed to:
🤜 care for the person (not just treat the disease)
🤜instil hope that #Pulmonaryrehab will be of benefit
doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.1…
@CurtinAlliedHth
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Palliative care consultant Dr Jamilla Hussain (@JamillaHussain1): The very existence of this Bill opens up a Pandora's Box of risk. Ethnic minorities overwhelmingly say "we're scared, we're really fearful that this is going to result in a disproportionate impact on our community".
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Great work Helene - chronic breathlessness is coming in older frail adults and stops them living life to the full. However one of many issues and often don’t prioritise telling the doctor- we need to ask!
“I’m living in a ‘no’ world now…”- A qualitative study of the widespread impact of living with chronic #breathlessness, and experiences of identification and assessment of this symptom in an older, frail community-based population
nature.com/articles/s41533-0…
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Only a patient can describe breathlessness - ‘a person who drowns experiences this… like drowning again and again… impossible to put into words…’ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
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Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research
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Book your appointment with Professor Mark Pearson, Director of our PG Cert/PG Dip and MSc in Palliative Care: Implementing Best Practice programme: outlook-sdf.office.com/bookw…
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💙Our Postgraduate Taught webinars continue next week! Discover how our PGCert, PGDip and MSc in Palliative Care: Implementing Best Practice programme will help you to make a difference to people living with long-term and life-limiting conditions: hyms.ac.uk/postgraduate-taug…
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Top ten research priorities for breathlessness research: UK James Lind Alliance priority setting partnership - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine thelancet.com/journals/lanre…
#BTS2024 @CSI_KCL @KCH_Research @asthmalunguk @REvans_Breathe @DrErikaK @TheACPRC
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If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 76 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight
Please take just two seconds to show you’re right behind NHS staff
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👉Key findings from our systematic review & meta-analysis : multicomponent services improve breathlessness mastery and health-related quality of life, with minimal risk.
publications.ersnet.org/cont… @CSI_KCL @KCH_Research #respisbest
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Thank you to all the Peers who spoke so powerfully about hospice funding in yesterday's House of Lords debate, including our Vice Presidents Baroness Finlay and Lord Howard.
Special thanks to Lord Farmer for securing the debate. (1/2)
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Interested in #hospice #architecture and #design? Join us at @UniOfHull @wolfsonpallcare on 14 Jan 2025 for a one-day event with guest speakers and interactive workshops, based on the latest research on UK hospice design. Funded by @wellcometrust
ticketsource.co.uk/hospicede…
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Free online course to help health professionals understand how chronic #breathlessness can still be improved even when the underlying condition cannot.
learninghub.nhs.uk/Catalogue…
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💙Our #PalliativeCare: Implementing Best Practice programme will teach you to make a difference by developing, delivering and evaluating care that facilitates best practice in care for people living with life-limiting conditions: hyms.ac.uk/postgraduate-taug…
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Supporting people in distress in palliative care with breath-body-mind skills and through a trauma-informed lens 👇🏼👇🏼Booking open F2F & online sobelleducation.org.uk/produ…
@SobellEducation
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Prioritise talking about it 🗣 show patients you believe in it 💪 walk in their shoes to understand psychological perceptions 🧩... going the extra step to support engagement in pulmonary rehabilitation 🤝
@KylieHill2015 @vincavalheri @DanielGucciardi @warrp2 @CurtinAlliedHth
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Yesterday, PhD candidate @holly_drover hosted a gallery event showcasing her work on understanding breathlessness across ethnicities. Participants utilised art and painting to express their experiences of breathlessness.
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Please can you take a couple of minutes to complete the survey below to help shape the future of breathlessness research @CSI_KCL @BTSrespiratory @TheACPRC @DyspneaSociety
How could research help you look after your patients struggling to catch their breath? Take our short survey to share your top 10 breathlessness research priorities: orlo.uk/mRGeY
ALT Image of a researcher in a lab, using a pipette. Text says Shape the future for patients who struggle to breathe with an overlayimage of the Asthma Lung UK logo.