Emily Ward

Back to the mucus: introduction to an AJRCCM special section on airway mucus @atscommunity 🔗 tinyurl.com/yzb2hymu

New paper out! Radiologic patterns of ILD — a pictorial review aligned with the 2025 ERS/ATS classification. Highlights CT features of key ILD entities and the updated framework for pattern recognition in clinical practice. dirjournal.org/articles/doi/d…

European Respiratory Journal: Fan-to-face therapy is a simple, feasible, low-cost, low-resource nonpharmacological approach to reduce exertional breathlessness during exercise training in adults with chronic lung disease bit.ly/4oMpcbX

Visit us at the BALR stand at #RTI2026 in Glasgow to hear about Studentship funding, our next meeting, and play our BALR lucky dip! Exited to learn more about cutting-edge research across #RespiratoryInfections and #AirwayDiseases over the next three days!

@fabcoach @dundeeuni GPs are brilliant but most won’t be specialised in respiratory medicine as well. You need ideally a specialist clinician and team help.

@draw_e87 @dundeeuni What can l specifically ask my GP to do so that my bronchiectasis could be improved as much as possible ?Thanks.

Amazing overview of GREAT2 looking at pseudomonas treatment in #bronchiectasis with GRemubamab ErAdication by the fantastic Daniela @dundeeuni presented at #rti2026

@Nimsay1988uk @ProfJDChalmers @LSTMnews Not officially but likely many overlaps. If you look on my one tweet earlier there is a link to a paper written on post TB lung disease and a guideline from Brazil.

@draw_e87 @ProfJDChalmers @LSTMnews Good evening Emily. Does this include NTM (Mycobacterium)? If so, where can I access this information? TIA.

Post TB lung disease is causing a huge burden of symptoms. Perhaps decades on for many. So many avenues to explore. Great talk from Dr Naomi Walker @LSTMnews As Dr Mazur said “we can’t look forward without looking back” time to re-look at post TB surgery trials? #rti2026

Immunosuppression essential in patients post organ transplantation but obviously huge risk of infection. Often atypical. A great reminder of balancing infection versus rejection by Dr Fraser. Useful infection timeline graphic here. #rti2026 amjtransplant.org/article/S1600-…

Beautiful overview of the patient journey after TB by Rebecca Nightingale @LSTMnews at #rti2026 Who authored this clinical statement. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10… Guidelines from Brazil here pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…

Anti viral treatments need to be started early in disease. But those hospitalised are late on in disease. We need point of care testing in the community with early treatment access. #rti2026 #primarycare

As one of the leading causes of pneumonia infants hospitalised with illness RSV prevention is essential. Fantastic overview of the vaccine by Natalie Mazur at #rti2026 thelancet.com/action/showPdf… Follow how the 🌎 uptake is changing here. view-hub.org/topics/RSV-pro…

Brilliant review of NTM trials from Charles Daley. So encouraging to see the mice models of using ORC -13661 to stop Ototoxicity in patients treated with amino glycosides. And a discussion on those trials that were stopped and why. #collaboration #rti2026

Whoop team Dundee!

Fascinating the think that vaccine uptake changes chronic disease outlook. #rsv vaccine uptake highest in Scotland with huge array of benefits to patients.

Vaccinating our patients is the quickest and biggest gain. “A vaccine that is in the fridge is doing nothing” So important we remember our role in helping patients understand vaccines and increase uptake. #rti2026

De-escalation of treatment is a fluid decision” a brilliant overview of their paper from Prof Raquel Duarte & reminder that NTM treatment needs an MDT approach with patient patient input essential. tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Going beyond the guidelines- fantastic talk- including managing side effects with ginger (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC70… ) nocturnal azithromycin & boosting health through diet. Collaboration is essential in difficult to treat infections. Thanks Lucy Morgan for the secrets! #rti2026

Pleural infection - is pH 7.2 and under the magic number? Older study showing the variability of pH in pleural infection depending on the pocket of fluid. #rti2026

Brilliant talk on using ventilator filters to aid diagnostics in ventilator associated pneumonia #rti2026 showing high specificity in comparison to BAL.